Starbucks

See you latte: Starbucks plans to cut 30% of its menu

8:25pm January 28, 2025

Starbucks is trying to fix falling sales by changing its vibe back to coffee-house roots. The new CEO says parts of the plan, like free non-dairy milk, are helping bring people back.

No such thing as a free toilet: Starbucks reverses open bathroom policy

6:31pm January 14, 2025

The new guideline is a reversal of a 2018 open-door policy that was implemented after two Black men, who had not ordered anything, were arrested at a Philadelphia store.

Starbucks baristas' 'strike before Christmas' has reached hundreds of U.S. stores

9:46am December 24, 2024

Starbucks' union says workers are walking off the job at some 300 — out of over 10,000 — stores across the U.S. as contract negotiations falter. The company urges it to return to the bargaining table.

Starbucks employees and supporters react as votes are read during a union-election watch party in 2021 in Buffalo, N.Y. Starbucks workers voted to unionize over the company's objections, pointing the way to a new labor model for the 50-year-old coffee giant.

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.

(Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

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.