My Starbucks Idea will be unavailable Friday, October 10th starting at 8 pm PDT for routine maintenance and upgrades. One benefit of this site maintenance is we should see faster load times as you are cruising through the site - sharing your ideas, voting, commenting, and then checking the Ideas in Action section of the site. Come back on Saturday, the site should be rarin’ to go. We look forward to your ideas. Keep them coming.

Hey coffee fans, This week the Clover® Brewing System debuts in eight stores in San Francisco along with some new featured Starbucks® Small Batch Coffees. • Kenya Gichatha-Ini Micro Lot Deep flavors of fine herbs and dried apricot, an intense, clean acidity and round body; finishes with layers of tannic black tea and cola nut • Ethiopia Nardos Sweet flavors of brown sugar and cocoa with floral aromas, refined acidity and medium to full body • Guatemala Antigua Medina Balanced silky cocoa notes meet lingering floral sweetness with refined sweetness and round, dense body • Tanzania Blackburn Estate Subtle cherry and currant notes matched with a citrus sweetness in the … more »

Hi Everyone! This is kema and I work on the Starbucks Card Team. I am excited to announce that we have recently launched an idea that you have been asking for! A few weeks ago, we increased the number of Customized Starbucks Cards you can order at once using our online Customized Card program. In the past you could only create and order one Card at a time. Many of you wanted the ability to order multiple cards with the same design. There have been several comments about this, but I want to give special thanks to tealover , lorifw66 and JordanG for continuing to give us ideas for the Starbucks Card Program. For those of you who don’t know how our Customized Card program works, it’s … more »

After a spirited few days of voting and commenting, we have the results of our recent polls asking whether you would change your visiting habits if we changed our tattoo and piercing policies for store employees. What you said seemed to be that (at least the MSI community) is pretty ok with tattoos, but not as sure about piercings. Here are the full questions, results, and a link to the discussion about each. Would visible but unobtrusive tattoos on employees make you: 5%: Stop Visiting 8% : Visit Less 74%: Visit the Same 13%: Visit More See the full conversation here: Tattoos Would more visible piercings on employees make you: 10%: Stop Visiting 26%: Visit Less 57%: Visit the Same 5%: Visit … more »