Tariffs are not the only threat to business for big companies selling coffee in the United States. On Thursday, a watchdog group petitioned the Trump administration to block coffee imports that it says are produced with forced labor akin to modern-day slavery in Brazil, the world’s largest coffee grower. The petition to Customs and Border…
A jury in California on Friday awarded $50 million in damages to a Los Angeles delivery driver who was badly burned by a cup of hot tea that spilled into his lap in a Starbucks drive-through in 2020, court records show. The driver, Michael Garcia, 30, received multiple skin grafts and underwent other medical treatments…
Starbucks is “reclaiming the ‘third place.’” That’s what its chief executive, Brian Niccol, proclaimed in an October earnings call, after the coffee giant suffered a slide in sales and store traffic. He was echoing a statement he had made when he started the job in September — that he wanted to re-establish Starbucks as “a…
Starbucks will require people visiting its coffee shops to buy something in order to stay or to use its bathrooms, the company announced in a letter sent to store managers on Monday. The new policy, outlined in a Code of Conduct, will be enacted later this month and applies to the company’s cafes, patios and…