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“ April 2008 ”

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Bite-sized Pastries
Hello everyone! Wow, I cannot believe it’s been less than three weeks since we launched and already we have so much in motion. In addition to working on mystarbucksidea.com, I am also part of the Starbucks Food Team, so it really is exciting to see all the passion and great discussions around our food offerings. Thank you for all the energy you’ve put into this community; there’s definitely a lot to talk about when it comes to food and I have to tell you, “we hear you loud and clear!!” While I can’t divulge a lot about what’s happening behind the scenes with food, I can say that it is tremendously exciting and so many wonderful ideas are in the works … more »
Comfortable Seating
Hi, my name is Cory and I’m one of the Idea Partners for Starbucks. I work in store development, the team of people that find great places to open stores, and then design, build and maintain them. I’ve been reading the posts as they come in, and wasn’t surprised to see that there is a lot of passion about seating in our stores . There’s also wide variety in the preferences people have about what they sit on while they’re visiting us. Despite the impressions some of you have about the shrinking size of our stores, I can vouch for the fact that our average store size has been steadily increasing over the past 15 years, and the stores we opened last year hit an all … more »
Automated Ordering
While working at Starbucks, I’ve supported many projects in the IT world. Automated ordering has gained quite a lot of momentum on the MyStarbucksIdea.com site. We are always working to find innovative ways to better serve our customers. Through automated ordering we may be able to increase our speed of service and produce a more consistently accurate beverage for our customers. We have an entire project team dedicated to initiatives like this one. We call the project group “Global Store of the Future” and it’s where ideas like automated ordering are researched by our IT Strategy team. As you can probably guess, these ideas require quite extensive technological infrastructure … more »
Coffee Classes
Greetings to the mystarbucksidea.com Community, My name is Major and I’m lucky to have the unique opportunity to work in Global Coffee & Tea Education along with a small handful of other partners. Gauging from the votes and comments, there’s a strong desire to learn more about coffee. Luckily, that’s easy! Your local store is a fantastic resource. All of our baristas are knowledgeable about a variety of coffees, and while we don’t have a set coffee class program in our stores, you can arrange to have our baristas take you through a guided tasting and help you in your personal coffee journey. We do coffee tastings regularly here, and I thought I’d share one of … more »