Some of the ideas you’ve shared on MSI have been about offering coffee classes to learn more about coffee. For those of you in the Seattle area I thought you might be interested in this exhibit at the Burke Museum that is opening this weekend. After the exhibit ends at the Burke it will travel … more »

Hi Friends, I’d like to thank you all for your continued interest and requests for additional sugar-free options at Starbucks. We are considering alternate sweeteners and optimizing our current syrup line-up. Currently, we carry Sugar-free Caramel, Hazelnut, and Vanilla. We are working on a couple … more »

President-elect Obama recently announced the creation of the Renew America Together Initiative, a call for community service headed by General Colin Powell, www.usaservice.org . I’m pleased to report that Starbucks is partnering with the HandsOn Network to make it easy to participate in the President’s … more »

Tuesday, January 13 @ 2:00 is tea time at Starbucks. All company-operated stores will be sampling the new Tazo® Tea Lattes and Tea Infusions along with some tasty food. Tazo® Tea Lattes • Black Tea Latte . It’s a blend of black teas from India and Sri Lanka combined with freshly steamed … more »

Hi, my name is Suzanne and I am the Brand Manager for Tazo Tea here at Starbucks. I’ve been lucky enough to have been a part of Tazo now for about seven great years. Tazo was started by a guy named Steve who wanted to “pull the doily out from under the tea cup” and introduce a whole … more »

Many of you are probably aware of the (PRODUCT)RED relationship we started at the onset of our holiday promotion in late November. So far, with your help, we’ve been able to generate funds that could provide more than 1.4 million daily doses of medicine to help save lives in Africa. This may help … more »

Many of the ideas on My Starbucks Idea are about ways we can help reduce our environmental footprint by using a reusable cup. Reusable Cups Reuse, Recycle Reduce paper cup usage Now available at Starbucks are earth-friendly tumblers made with a minimum of 27% recycled material. Starting on January 3 … more »