Symbolic

This is the symbol seen almost on every block that means essentially nothing. It is the Starbucks symbol. It is absolutely minimal on visual detail making use of negative space to convey its message of "here's one of us!" This symbol means something to everyone, coffee drinker and not coffee drinker, as a place for drinking coffee (and doing laptop work). As a symbol, it's meaning is a learned attribute as the image within, a queen mermaid-ish thing, has nothing to do with coffee. The fact that you see these everywhere on coffee cups or on plenty of street corners, helps develop the associated meaning of coffee from Starbucks.