Some of America’s biggest corporations are (very publicly) raising the minimum wages of their employees. This is better than nothing, but not as good as, say, dangling a CEO by his ankles and shaking him until all of his billions fall out.
Rick Scott, an intergalactic swamp wizard sent to Earth to reign over the humid plains of Florida, released an attack ad this afternoon against a constituent who yelled at him in a coffee shop.
Today, footage surfaced of Florida governor Rick Scott, at a Starbucks in Gainesville, getting yelled at by a customer—local woman Cara Jennings, who is none to happy with the governor.
Inside today’s Wall Street Journal and New York Times are two different, full-page ads about essentially nothing draped in the rhetoric of social justice written by what I imagine was a third party branding agency at the behest of a CEO in order to promote the pseudo-advocacy of a sprawling American coffee chain. We…
“It’s so trivial that the Catholic League won’t even be commenting on the situation,” reads the reactionary religious group’s official statement on the Starbucks cup controversy that’s supposedly rocking the Christian right. This is what happens when we treat products of the online garbage content cycle as actual news.
Donald Trump, it turns out, may not be the Christmas Grinch we all thought he was. No, he’s something much worse: a heat miser with a heart of coal, but a façade as warm and tan as a plump Christmas goose.
One delusion common to rich business leaders who are all-powerful figures in their own small domains is the idea that they could lead the whole world just like they lead their business. Example Grande: Howard Schultz.
A shift supervisor at a Starbucks in Elmhurst, Queens reportedly quit her job this week after footage of her unhinged, cookie straw-related rant went viral, PIX11 reports.
A North Carolina police officer is suing Starbucks for $50,000 over a free cup of coffee that allegedly collapsed into the cop’s lap and burned his lap.
According to Twitter, Starbucks stores across the country are all having a major computer system failure right now—and they’re giving away all the drinks for free.
Everybody hates Starbucks' absurdly stupid "Race Together" initiative, but the people who hate it the most are probably the baristas, who have been asked by their wealthy bosses to bear the responsibility of starting discussions about American racism... at Starbucks. A tipster sent us a photo of what she says is the…
Okay, well, now Starbucks is planning on starting a national dialogue on race that will consist of talking to your Starbucks barista, about race. What are you doing, Starbucks? What? Are? You doing?
Detectives arrested a registered sex offender Saturday while he was allegedly in the midst of downloading child pornography on the free Wi-Fi at a Hillsboro, Ore., Starbucks.
Was semen really found in Starbucks drinks nationwide? Is the FDA looking into this? No. God no. But Harlem pastor James David Manning thinks so, and he's very concerned.
A man in Houston, Texas is accused of picking up a Chihuahua and throwing her at the outside glass window of a Starbucks in response to the fact that he had been banned from the store three months prior. Witnesses say the man was intoxicated.
Starbucks' newly liberalized dress code now reads: "Tattoos are allowed, but not on your face or throat. Treat tattoos as you treat speech — you can't swear, make hateful comments or lewd jokes in the workplace, neither can your tattoos." Piss coffee.
If you are interested in buying a stranger their coffee (in exchange for another stranger buying yours), then you should go to the Starbucks on Tyrone Boulevard in St. Petersburg, Fla. This past Wednesday, nearly 400 people "paid it forward" and bought the coffee order for the person behind them in the drive thru…
Starbucks is changing its scheduling policies "so that employees never have to work opening and closing shifts back to back," one teeny tiny step towards making part-time employment in America slightly less hellacious.
Coffee empire Starbucks plans to announce an unusual partnership with Arizona State University Monday to pay for the (online) college education of its 135,000-odd U.S. employees—even the ones who leave.
Like anyone who buys too much Starbucks does, Andrew of Dallas, Texas, is a Starbucks Gold Card holder. This particular rewards program gets you one free drink for every 12 that you order. So for his free drink, Andrew decided to break the record for the most-expensive Starbucks drink order. The poor baristas made him…
