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A front window of a Starbucks coffee shop damaged in the 2010 G20 Toronto summit protests A local coffee shop in New York's East Village claiming it had to close because Starbucks is willing to pay higher rent for the space. Starbucks, an American coffee company and coffeehouse chain, is the subject of multiple controversies. Public and ...
The verification program holds Starbucks coffee suppliers to more than 200 environmental, labor and quality standards. Farms that fail to meet those can be barred from supplying the company until ...
The association has successfully aided the defense of subsequent coffee burn cases. [43] Similarly, as of 2004, Starbucks sells coffee at 175–185 °F (79–85 °C), and the executive director of the Specialty Coffee Association of America reported that the standard serving temperature is 160–185 °F (71–85 °C). [citation needed]
Consumers are boycotting Starbucks for many reasons and it is hurting the company's bottom line. Here is why. ... The coffee shop's stock dropped 1.6% on Dec. 7 , ...
In October 2006, Oxfam accused Starbucks of asking the National Coffee Association (NCA) to block a US trademark application from Ethiopia for three of the country's coffee beans, Sidamo, Harar and Yirgacheffe. They claimed this could result in denying Ethiopian coffee farmers potential annual earnings of up to £47m. [28]
The lawsuit calls for the coffee chain to end its “unfair and deceptive” trade practices and argues that the company is aware of the child and forced labor on some of its supplier farms.
A federal appeals court on Friday largely rejected Starbucks' appeal of a National Labor Relations Board finding the coffee chain illegally fired two Philadelphia baristas because they wanted to ...
The Starbucks murders occurred on July 6, 1997, at a Starbucks store located in Georgetown, ... entitled The Coffee Shop Murders the episode aired January 31, 2002.