Starbucks Customers Actually Cares About Calories

A new study indicates that calorie counts in restaurants are often incorrect: “Restaurant meals average 18 percent more calories than are listed on menus. However, some individual restaurant items had up to 200 percent more calories than their stated caloric values.” Still, that’s not stopping Bloomberg from touting the results of another new study, which [...]

Here it comes again: Starbucks Thanksgiving blend

A glorious Thanksgiving feast calls for an exceptional seasonal coffee. A pairing of coffees from Sumatra and Guatemala’s Antigua region, Starbucks Thanksgiving Blend is a spicy, full-bodied brew that complements the savory, rich and tart flavors of fall gatherings.
View promotional video for Thanskgiving blend on Facebook.

The Red Starbucks Cup comes out tomorrow

The Red Cup comes out tomorrow.
Pick up one of our three Holiday drinks; the Gingerbread Latte, the Eggnog Latte and the Peppermint Mocha in a Red Cup.
Which one is your favorite?

Starbucks instant coffee

Is great. When I first enjoyed Starbucks VIA™ Ready Brew, I was at Heathrow T5, ready for my flight to New York. I was very eager to taste VIA, because naturally I don’t like instant coffee.
But, there is a big but in this story Starbucks VIA is not regular instant coffee.
Starbucks VIA Italian roast is [...]

First iPhone apps from Starbucks

Starbucks is launching a store-finding and menu-information application for the iPhone, and is testing a second app that will let customers use the phone as their Starbucks card.

Starbucks is changing

When Howard Schultz returned to the job of chief executive at the beginning of 2008, it was just a month after the start of the most brutal recession in decades. That’s hardly the ideal time to turn around a troubled company.

Starbucks To Change The Way It Makes Coffee

Instead of grinding coffee only in the morning, baristas will grind beans each time a new pot is brewed. Timers will buzz to signal when it’s time to make a new batch, according to internal Starbucks documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
Source: Wall Street Journal

Instant Starbucks coffee?

Starbucks is preparing a new brew of coffee, and is designed to mimic the taste of store-bought Starbucks. Some Starbucks will begin selling Via next month.

STARBUCKS’ E-MAIL TO EMPLOYEES
From: Partner Communications
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 2:21 PM
Subject: Breakthrough Product News
Dear Partners,
This afternoon, a number of media outlets have reported that Starbucks will be introducing a [...]

Starbucks Coffee Enters Bulgarian Market

Starbucks is set to open its first Bulgarian coffee shop in the capital of Sofia in early November, 2008, the company said recently in a media release. The American based coffee chain will open its new store as a franchise through Greek firm Marinopoulos Bros. The store will be the first of many they plan [...]

What’s the taste of Starbucks Thanksgiving blend?

When Starbucks called Tom Douglas asking the Seattle restaurant icon to collaborate on a Starbucks coffee blend for Thanksgiving, Douglas figured what the heck. He’s carried Starbucks coffee in his restaurants for almost 20 years.

“I thought it was going to be more of a marketing thing.”

Turns out, it was a serious culinary experience, beginning with [...]