Starbucks

Starbucks workers say they will begin a strike in 3 cities on Friday

7:29am December 20, 2024

Starbucks and Starbucks Workers United said in February they had come to common ground in moving forward for the rest of the year. But the union says Starbucks has not kept its end of the commitment.

Starbucks hopes faster drinks, fewer upcharges and nicer mugs bring people back

5:00am October 30, 2024

Shoppers complain that Starbucks isn't fancy enough — but they also say it's too expensive. The new CEO, Brian Niccol, is ordering up big changes.

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Inflation math is changing America's dinner plans

10:41am August 02, 2024

by Alina Selyukh

For the first time in years, people are buying more groceries, including pricier brands, to replace restaurant outings. From McDonald's to Starbucks, fast food and cafes are feeling it.

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Economy

Oil gluts, Russian bucks, and Starbucks

5:58pm June 14, 2024

Indicators of the Week is back! This week, we've got indicators about oil gluts, big bucks for Ukraine and fewer bucks at Starbucks. (Apologies for the slurping.)

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Nestlé says it is recalling nearly half a million Starbucks mugs that were sold recently after at least a dozen people suffered injuries including burns or cuts while using the product. Shown here is a Starbucks location in Havertown, Pa.

More than 440,000 Starbucks mugs recalled after reports of a dozen injuries

3:59pm March 21, 2024

by Jonathan Franklin

The holiday-inspired mugs were sold online and in stores such as Target and Walmart from November 2023 through January 2024. The injuries included severe burns, blisters and cuts on hands and fingers.

CosMc's offers a large variety of drinks — and no hamburgers. The first store testing the new McDonald's concept is opening in Bolingbrook, Ill., near Chicago.

CosMc's lands in Illinois, as McDonald's tests its new coffee-centered concept

2:59pm December 07, 2023

by Bill Chappell

The beverage-first McDonald's spinoff, named for a six-handed extraterrestrial, seems to be a grab at markets currently served by the likes of Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts.

People hold signs supporting Starbucks workers outside a Starbucks on New York's Upper West Side on Thursday.

National

Thousands of Starbucks workers go on a one-day strike on one of chain's busiest days

1:21pm November 16, 2023

by The Associated Press

Workers at more than 200 U.S. Starbucks locations walked off the job Thursday in what organizers said was the largest strike yet in the two-year-old effort to unionize the company's stores.

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Starbucks increases U.S. hourly wages and adds other benefits for non-union workers

1:26am November 07, 2023

by The Associated Press

The company said Monday unionized workers won't be eligible for some of those perks, a sign of the continuing tension between the Seattle coffee giant and the union trying to organize its U.S. stores.

Pedestrians pass a Starbucks in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York on June 13.

National

Fed-up consumers are increasingly going after food companies for misleading claims

5:00am September 20, 2023

by Joe Hernandez

This week a federal judge in Manhattan allowed a case to move forward against Starbucks over claims its fruit-based drinks were lacking fruit.

More than 3,000 Starbucks workers pledged to strike in the coming days across the U.S.

U.S. Starbucks workers join in a weeklong strike over stores not allowing Pride décor

3:19pm June 23, 2023

by Juliana Kim

Starbucks workers in cities including Chicago, Philadelphia and San Antonio plan to walk out or picket over coming days following worker accusations that the company is scaling back its LGBTQ support.