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Starbucks to hire 10,000 refugees across the world after Donald Trump's travel ban
Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz wrote a letter to his employees stating that he has deep concerns about Trump's ban, but a resolute promise for the refugees.
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People are boycotting Starbucks after CEO announces plan to hire thousands of refugees
Some Starbucks customers are threatening to boycott the coffee giant after its CEO took a stand against President Donald Trump's executive order barring immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the US. On Sunday, Starbucks announced it planned to hire 10,000 refugees worldwide in the next five years.
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Malaysia joins Indonesia in attempted Starbucks boycott
Malaysia has joined Indonesia in an attempted boycott on giant coffee chain Starbucks over its support for LGBT rights. Last week Indonesia’s second-largest Muslim organisation in Indonesia, Muhammadiyah, urged followers to boycott Starbucks. Anwar Abbas, who made the calls for the boycott, also leads the semi-governmental Indonesian Ulema Council which is responsible for Halal certification in the country.
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Starbucks Unveils $7 Wake-Up Slap
SEATTLE—Touting it as an invigorating way to jumpstart your morning, Starbucks on Friday unveiled its new $7 wake-up slap.
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Starbucks wi-fi made computers mine cash
Starbucks has acknowledged that visitors to one of its branches were unwittingly recruited into a crypto-currency mining operation. The wi-fi service provided by one of the coffee chain's Buenos Aires outlets surreptitiously hijacked connected computers to use their processing power to create digital cash. Starbucks said that it had taken "swift action" to address the problem.
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Court of Appeals rules a transgender man's discrimination lawsuit against Starbucks can proceed
The Minnesota Court of Appeals reinstated a transgender man's discrimination lawsuit Tuesday alleging that employees at Starbucks coffee shops in Eden Prairie and Edina refused to serve him. Earlier this year, Hennepin County District Court threw out the complaint because the plaintiff, Paul Bray, 43, didn't prove the discrimination was based on his transgender status. The district court also ruled that Bray's right to sue over allegations from July 2013 had expired under the one-year statute of limitations established by the Minnesota Human Rights Act (MHRA).
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A Starbucks is coming to Yosemite National Park, but thousands want to stop it
An online petition to stop a Starbucks from being added to Yosemite National Park is rapidly gaining steam, with thousands of people supporting efforts to stop the international coffee chain from entering the protected land.
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Starbucks to increase wages, improve benefits for 150K employees
Starbucks said Wednesday it will increase wages and enact other perks for more than 150,000 U.S. employees as a direct result of recent tax reform, joining other corporations in rewarding workers. The Seattle-based coffee chain is giving all of its U.S.-based hourly and salaried workers an unspecified raise in April, in addition to a wage increase already dispersed earlier in the Starbucks’ fiscal year, which began last October. Starbucks says it is investing roughly $120 million in the wage increases.
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Starbucks Debuts Vegan Nutella-Inspired Macchiato
The international coffeehouse launched a vegan coconut milk-based macchiato made with hazelnut syrup and a chocolate mocha drizzle. Starbucks announced two new drinks to its spring menu this week, including the vegan Hazelnut Mocha Coconutmilk Macchiato. The new beverage—which customers can order either hot or iced—is made with a blend of coconut milk and bold espresso, flavored with hazelnut syrup, and topped with a mocha drizzle for a combination reminiscent of chocolate hazelnut spread Nutella.
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Starbucks Apologizes After 2 Black Men Were Arrested While Waiting Inside Store
Starbucks apologized after a video of two black men being arrested while waiting in a Philadelphia Starbucks went viral. The two men were waiting inside the Starbucks location for a friend when they were asked to leave, CBS reported. The police were then called, and the two men were arrested. In a video posted to Twitter, other customers complained that two men hadn’t done anything wrong.
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Starbucks to train workers on 'unconscious bias,' CEO says
Starbucks wants to add training for store managers on “unconscious bias,” CEO Kevin Johnson said Monday, as activists held more protests at a Philadelphia store where two black men were arrested when employees said they were trespassing. Johnson, who has called the arrests “reprehensible,” arrived in Philadelphia this weekend after video of the arrests gained traction online. He said he hopes to meet with the two men in the next couple of days and apologize to them face-to-face.
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Men arrested at Starbucks were there for business meeting hoping to change 'our lives’
I call BULLSHIT
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'When you did nothing wrong, how do you react?': Men arrested at Starbucks feared for their lives
Robinson said he thought about his loved ones and how the afternoon had taken such a turn as he was taken to jail. Nelson wondered if he'd make it home alive.
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Beyond Starbucks: How Racism Shapes Customer Service
It will take more than one day of training to eliminate unfair treatment.
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Black Loiterers, White Lingerers, and Starbucks Coffee
There is a well-known stereotype of a particular kind of coffee-shop patron — an aspiring screenwriter or freelancer, scrupulously cobbling together their pitches or book proposals, courtesy of their favorite local haunt’s free Wi-Fi, electrical outlets, and comfortable furniture, paying for their mobile home office with just a $2 cup of bottomless coffee. This patron, of course, is usually white. The trope has been both parodied and celebrated, and it’s easy to find lists ranking coffee places by how easily they can be transformed into work spaces. Since this lifehack only works by shifting costs from the patron to the coffee-shop owner...
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Men arrested at Starbucks settle for $1
Two black men who were arrested at a Starbucks cafe by Philadelphia police last month have reached a financial settlement with the city. Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson will each receive a symbolic $1 and a promise from officials to set up a programme for young entrepreneurs. The arrest of the men, who had not yet ordered and were waiting for a friend, kicked off a row over racial profiling. Starbucks announced days later it would require employee anti-bias training.
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Nestle pays Starbucks $7.1bn to sell coffee
Nestle has announced that it will pay Starbucks $7.1bn (£5.2bn) to sell the company's coffee into homes. The Nescafe and Nespresso owner will own the rights to market Starbucks' coffee, which it says generates $2bn in annual sales. Nestle's name will not appear alongside Starbucks's. The deal means Nespresso machine owners will be able to buy Starbucks coffee branded pods for use in their equipment.
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Starbucks to scrap plastic straws globally by 2020
Starbucks plans to eliminate plastic straws globally by 2020. The coffee-shop giant announced Monday that it will use recyclable strawless lids and an alternative-material straw option in its more than 28,000 stores around the world. The move will eliminate more than one billion plastic straws per year from Starbucks stores, the company said.
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Starbucks to ditch plastic straws globally by 2020 to help environment
Seattle-based company will use other materials for straws and strawless lids will debut in Seattle and Vancouver this fall
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Starbucks Bans Plastic Straws, Winds Up Using More Plastic
A Reason investigation reveals that the coffee giant's new cold drink lids use more plastic than the old straw/lid combo.
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