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AP Photo/Ron Todt Arrests and harassment of people of color at chains have dominated the restaurant news cycle in recent weeks following the arrests of two black men at a Philadelphia Starbucks. The universality of eating at certain chains helps trigger convictions that while everyone visits certain restaurants, your race continues to impact your experience. […]
AP/Elaine Thompson Starbucks has told employees to let anyone use the restroom — even if they haven’t bought anything — as it reviews its policies. The coffee chain said it wants all customers who come in “to feel welcome.” The decision follows the arrests of two black men who were asked to leave a coffee […]
Reuters/Kim Hong-Ji Swiss-based food giant Nestle will pay Starbucks $ 7.15 billion in cash for the rights to sell the U.S. coffee chain’s products around the world in a global alliance aimed at reinvigorating their coffee empires. The deal on Monday for a business with $ 2 billion in sales reinforces Nestle’s position as the […]
Twitter/@missydepino The two black men who were arrested in a Philadelphia Starbucks on April 12 have settled with the city for a symbolic $ 1 each. City officials have also promised to set up a program for young entrepreneurs. Their arrests set off a national debate about racial profiling. All Starbucks stores in the United […]
The world’s biggest coffee company Starbucks has announced that it will close all of its company-owned cafes in the United States for one afternoon on May 29 to educate employees about racial bias. The announcement comes as the company tries to cool tensions following an incident in its Philadelphia store, in which two black men […]
Twitter/@missydepino Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson apologized on Saturday night to the two black men arrested in a Philadelphia store. Videos of the arrest, which went viral, were “very hard to watch,” Johnson said. He said the company’s practices and training led to the “reprehensible outcome” and that the incident “should never have escalated as it […]
Twitter/@missydepino Starbucks faced intense backlash on Saturday after a viral video showed police arresting two black men in a Philadelphia store, while bystanders argued the men “didn’t do anything.” Starbucks apologized on Saturday and said the company plans to review its policies. The commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department said the officers “did absolutely nothing wrong,” and […]
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Starbucks and 89 other coffee retailers were sued by a not-for-profit group on the grounds they were violating a California law requiring companies to warn consumers of chemicals in their products that could potentially cause cancer. The chemical in question in this case is acrylamide, a byproduct of roasting coffee beans present in high levels […]
Rafi Letzter/Business Insider A judge has ruled that Starbucks must add cancer warnings to its coffee cups in California. A lawsuit, filed in 2010, accused coffee companies of violating state law by not warning consumers that a chemical in their products could cause cancer. Starbucks, along with other chains supported by the National Coffee Association, is […]
