Earlier today, we wrote about — and even posted the coupon for — Starbucks Free Pastry Day. And according to the coupon, “Pastries included in the offer are: Croissant, Muffins, Bagels, Breads, Pound Cakes, Scones, Rolles, Doughnuts, Coffee Cakes, Morning Bun and Cheese Danish.” But according to Consumerist reader Anthony, his local Starbucks weren’t being so generous. [More]
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Ben & Jerry's And Starbucks Both Giving Away Free Food Tomorrow
By 3.22.10
Do you like ice cream? How about free ice cream? What about free pastries? If so, you’ll probably want to save a little extra room in your belly tomorrow, as both Ben & Jerry’s and Starbucks are offering up free grub to customers nationwide. [More]
Starbucks Tip Jar Heisted Through Drive-Thru Window
By 3.18.10
In a slightly more upscale version of the McDonald’s beer bottle drive-thru robbery from earlier in the week, a Starbucks in Texas had its tip jar heisted by someone passing through the drive-thru lane. [More]
POLL: Would You Pay $2.50 For A Starbucks Blueberry Waffle?
By 3.17.10
According to reports, Starbucks stores in Denver are test-marketing a new product that’s generating a lot of positive and negative chatter — a blueberry waffle. [More]
Starbucks Adds USA Today To Newspaper Lineup
By 3.15.10
The New York Times may still be the “paper of record,” but they’re no longer the only national newspaper available at Starbucks. The coffee giant has added USA Today to its 6,500 retails outlets nationwide. [More]
POLL: Do You Need A 31-Ounce Iced Coffee From Starbucks?
By 3.5.10
While Starbucks has been busy trying to appease both sides of the gun-control debate, they’ve also been busy test-marketing their latest offering, a 31-ounce iced coffee beast known as a “Trenta.” [More]
Starbucks Caught In Crossfire Over Gun Debate
By 3.4.10
If you’d asked us a while back what company would find itself at the center of a power struggle between anti-gun activists and gun-rights supporters, we probably would not have guessed caffeine powerhouse Starbucks. But as the news that the ‘Bucks is okay with customers carrying guns into their stores where it’s permitted by law, there’s been a backlash by those now asking the company to rethink its policy. [More]
Wanna Bring A Gun To Starbucks? They're Cool With That
By 3.2.10
In states like Virginia where it’s legal for gun owners to walk around in public displaying their heat, there are some firearms fans who go out to stores they assume will be unfriendly about their gun-toting ways. But, in spite of its left-leaning reputation, coffee colossus Starbucks has instituted a policy saying guns are A-OK with them. [More]
Burger King And Starbucks Are Finally Teaming Up! Wait, What?
By 2.17.10
If you like Starbucks coffee but you don’t like paying coffee shop prices, starting this summer you should be able to order an iced-mocha-something from your nearest Burger King. The fast food chain is countering McDonald’s recent coffee offerings by teaming up with Starbucks, and prices should be between $1-2.79 according to the Kansas City Star. [More]
Fast Food Managers Abuse Power, Force Teenage Workers Into Sex
By 1.23.10
Supervising nubile teenagers in a fast-food establishment does not mean that you have an open invitation to abuse your authority and demand sex from them. This seems that it would be a self-evident rule of management. It is not. [More]
Starbucks Remembers How To Sell Coffee
By 1.20.10
Starbucks used to make a lot of money selling coffee-like sugar bombs that people loved and would pay for with cash from their HELOCs. Those days are over, but there’s good news. Starbucks has remembered how to sell coffee and is now doing so in a profitable way. [More]
My Starbucks Caramel Macchiato Was Divided, Conquered
By 1.20.10
On his blog, Phillyman says Starbucks screwed up his Caramel Macchiato by pouring all the caramel into one cup, then placing the cup containing the rest of the drink inside the caramelized container. [More]
Starbucks Perv Busted By Customer
By 1.8.10
A Starbucks customer was charged with two counts of public indecency and one count of posession of cannabis after an incident in a Chicago Starbucks where he was said to be “staring at woman and fondling himself.” [More]
Apparently, People Are Smacking Each Other Over Crying Children In Starbucks
By 12.8.09
Brooklyn Heights blog has an eyewitness account of the aftermath of one customer (allegedly) smacking another customer in the back of the head over a fussy child.
The smacking-aftermath witness says: [More]
Starbucks Barista Written Up For Chasing Down Tip Thief
By 12.7.09
If some jerk grabs the bills from your tip jar, you’re supposed to just stand there and take it, but one Starbucks barista was having none of that. She chased the thief until police eventually caught him and charged him with robbery by assault, a second degree felony. [More]
Save The Earth And Your Yuppie Cred With Reusable Starbucks Cup
By 11.20.09
Do you enjoy Starbucks chilled beverages, but hate the waste that comes from so many disposable plastic cups? Do you also want to keep your friends and co-workers from knowing about your secret environmentalist tendencies? Maybe you should consider purchasing the reusable Starbucks cold cup, a sturdy plastic tumbler made to look just like its flimsier, single-use cousins.
POLL: When Is Too Early For Christmas Creep?
By 11.6.09
After we proposed tracking Starbucks’s roll out of Christmas products as a metric to gauge yearly Christmas Creep, we got a fair amount of comments saying they saw no problem with Christmas stuff coming out once Halloween was over. So, inside, a poll: at what point does Christmas Creep become acceptable holiday display?
Starbucks Decides It's Time For Christmas
By 11.5.09
A reader wrote in on November 3rd to let us know that Starbucks has busted out the holiday-themed coffee paraphernalia. This gives us an idea.
