The most popular adult Halloween costumes of 2015 are expected to be US presidential candidates, emojis and Star Wars characters. And the most popular beverage of the season may be a fang-tastic new Starbucks Frappuccino blended beverage. Starbucks launched its first Halloween Frappuccino in the United States and Canada with the green tea Franken Frappuccino in […]
London’s bustling Covent Garden district has always been a place of connection and contrasts – where past meets present, design meets culture, and fashion meets entertainment. The new Starbucks store at Upper St. Martin’s Lane brings together these worlds, promoting interaction between Starbucks partners and customers. “The store is a platform of connection,” said Ad […]
Starbucks have created Starbucks Reserve, a brand of rare small-lot coffees, and opened a Roastery and Tasting Room in Seattle, a unique experience that is also the world’s largest Starbucks. The experience that lets visitors follow the coffee bean’s journey from harvesting to roasting and tasting, giving them a great cup of coffee, all with […]
International development charity, Send a Cow, together with Starbucks partners across the country, has launched a nationwide fundraising campaign in the UK to support poor smallholder farmers in rural Rwanda. The Big Cow Project is taking place throughout October, with nearly 700 Starbucks stores across the nation competing to raise funds of £650 – the […]
Starbucks is launching Mobile Order & Pay in the UK, allowing customers to pre-order their favourite drinks and food in over 150 London stores and save time in the queue. Rolling out from 1st of October, the new feature, available exclusively within the Starbucks App, offers customers greater convenience and the ability to customise their drink […]
Starbucks is looking to ease in-store queues with the nationwide implementation of mobile ordering and payments across the US. Following a the launch of a mobile ordering pilot in Portland earlier this year, the app, which was available only on iOS, is now also available on the Android operating system for coffee drinkers in around […]
Starbucks, the world’s biggest coffee chain, said it would close all 23 of its La Boulange retail locations by the end of September as the stores were not sustainable for its long-term growth. The company will continue to sell La Boulange items such as blueberry scones, iced lemon pound cakes and marshmallow dream bars at […]
Nearly two years ago, Starbucks senior store design manager Jonathan Alpert and his team learned of a potential new Starbucks site in Los Angeles. It was an unusual location – an empty old gas station on a fenced-off corner of Highland and Willoughby. “At the very beginning we knew this was something special,” said Alpert. […]
It’s hard to imagine summer at Starbucks without thinking of a cold Starbucks Frappuccino blended beverage and the green straw. Take a trip back two decades to the birth of the iconic summer beverage. In 1993, Starbucks had just a handful of stores in Los Angeles and fewer than 300 across the U.S. and Canada, […]
Starbucks is the latest brand to jump on-board the Valentine’s Day bandwagon, with the coffee chain serving up free trials of Match.com alongside its lattes and espressos. Customers will be offered the chance to register with Match.com for free, using the store’s free Wi-Fi. Starbucks will also celebrate Valentine’s Day by offering customers a buy […]