The Pilot (Friends) successfully brings up the idea to Rachel of asking her out sometime, and later confesses to Monica about the potential relationship. In the final scene, the entire group are in Central Perk having coffee with Rachel, who begins a new career as a coffee shop waitress. Creators and writers David Crane and Marta Kauffman were known in the television industry for writing the cable television series "Dream On". A second series by the duo, "Family Album", had premiered on CBS in the Fall 1993 season but was cancelled after airing six episodes. In November 1993, they began developing three new
Frappé coffee of New England, a frappe (pronounced "frap" and spelled without the accent) is a thick milkshake. A coffee shop in Boston, Massachusetts called Coffee Connection combined a milk shake with coffee and called it "frappuccino". When Starbucks bought that shop, it bought the trademarked name. The Starbucks in Greece offers both Frappuccino and Greek-style "Frappe" (written by Starbucks without the accent). Since then frappe has entered the American lexicon as an iced coffee drink, either sold chilled or frozen. Many of Starbucks' competitors, in the United States, in the Philippines and elsewhere, have begun offering drinks similar to the popular