NEW YORK (AP) — It’s as red as Santa’s suit, a poinsettia or your neighbor’s ugly Christmas sweater. Yet Starbucks’ stark new holiday coffee cup has set off complaints that the chain is making war on Christmas. The outcry — which gained in intensity after Donald Trump suggested boycotting the coffee chain — illustrates the […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Starbucks says its mobile app that lets people order and pay in advance will be available nationally starting Tuesday. That means lattes, breakfast sandwiches and other items you want could theoretically be waiting for you by the time you arrive. Mobile order-and-pay is still rare, but could become more common as […]
Life now for Vin Baker is a far cry from his days in the NBA. According to The Providence Journal, the 6-foot-11 former Seattle Supersonic center is training to manage a Starbucks franchise in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. The change of careers comes after Baker lost nearly $100 million in earnings from his 13-year career […]
Starbucks is on a mission to recruit a lost generation of America’s young, poor and unemployed to correct a decades-long pattern of neglect in corporate America. While President Barack Obama continues to challenge the nation’s largest corporations to hire more young men of color, Starbucks is leading an ambitious effort to hire 100,000 young African-American […]
We’re in the midst of March Madness and brackets have been filled out everywhere, including in the White House. President Obama recently shared his prediction…
We certainly do appreciate Starbucks’ CEO Howard Schultz’s push to talk about America’s race relations, holding large-scale conferences with his company’s employees. After weeks of those…
With race relations more shaky than ever, Starbucks is tackling the issue head on with “Race Together,” a new campaign organized by the popular chain it announced earlier this week. Chatting with Forbes.com, the company’s CEO Howard Schultz mentioned, “Race Together came amid racial tension, protests and violence in places such as Ferguson, Missouri, New […]
The CEO of your favorite place to get a white chocolate mocha (or is that just us) has gone from admirable coffeehouse entrepreneur to impassioned orator. Howard…
The CEO of your favorite place to get a white chocolate mocha (or is that just us) has gone from admirable coffeehouse entrepreneur to impassioned orator. Howard…
What in the heck is going on here! According to TMZ, Vernon Charles Allen Merriweather says he ordered Oprah’s Chai Tea last Fall in Buffalo, NY.…
What in the heck is going on here! According to TMZ, Vernon Charles Allen Merriweather says he ordered Oprah’s Chai Tea last Fall in Buffalo, NY.…
BEIJING (AP) — A suspect meat scandal in China engulfed Starbucks and Burger King on Tuesday and spread to Japan where McDonald’s said the Chinese supplier accused of selling expired beef and chicken had provided 20 percent of the meat for its chicken nuggets. Chinese authorities expanded their investigation of the meat supplier, Shanghai company […]
