One man. One coupon. Two baristas and 31 ounces of imagination. That’s what it took to create the most expensive Starbucks drink ever made.
Logan Warren, a 22-year-old tech entrepreneur and student, can’t afford to drink at the coffee chain daily. “At the rate I consume coffee, I’d be a pauper in a month,” the Texas-based college student tells Shine.
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This one-of-a-kind coffee shop in Tukwila, Wash., is made entirely out of recycled material.
You’ve heard the popular refrain that Starbucks is everywhere. There may be some truth to that — the massive coffee retailer has even set up shop in a shipping container.
The now-one-of-a-kind drive-thru/walk-up Starbucks coffee outlet off Interstate 5 in Tukwila, WA, which opened Dec. 13, is constructed from four modified shipping containers, including one 20-foot container and three 40-foot containers.
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In a move to avoid passing on higher costs to its loyal clients, the cafe giant has made a radical move.
Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) has stopped buying coffee? Wha–aat?
Before you panic, girlfriend, let us assure you that no one is here to take away your double-caff, extra hot, no foam, skinny cappuccino.
Recent media reports are saying that the friendly neighbourhood java joint has ceased buying coffee until prices drop. Back in January, Starbucks reported that the high prices were going to cut into the company’s profitability, but it wouldn’t pass the costs onto North American customers just yet.
Last week, John Culver, president of Starbucks Coffee International was reported as saying, “We do believe, however, that prices are going to fall again. For this year, we have locked our coffee costs but we watch the market closely.”
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You’ll be surprised to learn how the coffee chain’s menu compares with the other fast-food giant.
It’s still fast food, any way you cut it
Their bread is artisan, their salads have cranberries but is the food at Starbucks any better for you than McDonald’s fare? The coffee giant just pulled up behind the golden arches to become the number three fast food chain in America. Part of their success is being credited to healthier menu options than the standard drive-through meal. In the case of their carrot sticks and hummus platter, this may be true, but some of their staple grab-and-go menu options are deceptively high in calories and fat. We compared the nutritional values of some of their lunch fare with corresponding offerings at McDonald’s. You’ll be surprised at how the numbers stack up.
Read more: Is Starbucks any healthier than McDonald’s?
The world’s biggest coffee chain is set to unveil a new product that may drive $1B in revenue.
Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O), the world’s biggest coffee chain, on Sunday said it plans to announce a new product for the single-serve market “in the near future.”
Analysts long have expected Starbucks, which also sells Via instant coffee packets, to make a more aggressive move into the small, but fast-growing single-cup brewing segment.
Word of its new plan comes as Starbucks is getting ready for the March 1 termination of an agreement by which it provides coffee discs for Kraft Foods Inc’s (KFT.N) Tassimo one-cup home brewer.
Kraft’s Tassimo brewer won some loyal fans with its bells and whistles, but it was bested by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters’ (GMCR.O) generally lower-cost Keurig brewing system that now has a near-monopoly in the single-cup category with roughly 80 percent market share.
As experiments go, this one isn’t flashy.
But the success — or failure — of one Starbucks cafe on the edge of a trendy Seattle neighborhood could ripple through the nation’s coffee house industry.
Because where Starbucks goes, others follow.
Dubbed “Olive Way,” the store is the biggest percolator yet for ideas that the world’s largest coffee company has been testing separately at nearly a dozen locations around the globe. And what succeeds at Olive Way will most likely be spread to other Starbucks stores around the country.
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