Business & Tech Starbucks Is Closing Seven Downtown San Francisco Locations on October 22 The 59 Starbucks locations in San Francisco will be trimmed down later this month, with Starbucks telling managers that they are permanently closing seven SF stores on October 22, adding to the city's vacancy woes.
SF News Castro Starbucks Votes to Unionize, May Become First Unionized Starbucks In San Francisco Hold onto your gift cards, as the chain-store unionization movement in SF just got a shot from the Starbucks at 18th and Castro Streets, which voted to unionize in results confirmed Tuesday afternoon.
SF News Employees at Two Santa Cruz Starbucks Locations Have Voted To Unionize The first California Starbucks shops to unionize are both in Santa Cruz, after two separate Starbucks locations’ employees voted overwhelmingly to unionize on Wednesday.
SF News Dozens of Bay Area Starbucks Locations Are 'Temporarily Closed' or Have Reduced Store Hours Amid Staffing Problems You might've had trouble getting your bitter-tasting coffee fix recently in the Bay Area as multiple local Starbucks locations "temporarily closed” out of blue — with many more regional stores now operating reduced hours, too.
SF News Murder Charge to Be Filed In Case of Woman Repeatedly Run Over at Millbrae Starbucks After Victim Dies An attempted murder charge will be escalated to murder in San Mateo County in the case of a woman who was repeatedly struck and run over in a Millbrae parking lot on September 20, after the victim succumbed to her injuries Wednesday morning.
SF News Target, CVS, And Starbucks To Rise Across The Street From Rainbow Grocery Oh, what a difference five years makes. It was five years ago this month that San Francisco's first Target store opened to much pomp and celebration in the faux-Vegas splendor of the Metreon.
SF News Dream Of Drone-Delivered Lattes Comes Crashing Down As Alphabet's Project Wing Ends Starbucks Partnership Did you know that Alphabet's drone division, Project Wing, had teamed up with Starbucks with the goal of delivering the chain's products to customers by drone? Well, it seems the nascent partnership just
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Starbucks To Open 1,000 High-End Coffee Bars To Challenge Blue Bottle For 'Third Wave' Supremacy Eyeing the success of fancy "third-wave" coffee purveyors like Blue Bottle and Intelligentsia, Starbucks Chief Executive Howard Schultz today announced plans to roll out 1,000 high-end coffee bars. Reuters reports that the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dreams Of Pumpkin Spice Merlot Nixed As Starbucks Withdraws Beer And Wine Applications Looks like you'll have to stick to just pouring your own damn adult beverage of choice in those morning Grandes. The Chronicle reports that Starbucks has decided to withdraw its application for a
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Goat Shows Disappointingly Plebeian Tastes In Coffee When you need a cup of coffee — like, really need it — you don't always have the time and energy to seek out the hippest new joint and wait in their long-ass line. Sometimes,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Shorted On Latte, SF Starbucks Fan Sues Put on your pearls and clutch hard: Starbucks has come under fire after being accused of under filling their lattes in an effort to save money on milk, as KQED reports. The class
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink LA-Based Fast Casual Chain Eyes Former La Boulange Spaces Los Angeles-based Lemonade, a fast casual chain that in the words of its marketing department is "part lemonade stand, part grade-school cafeteria," is reportedly in talks to set up shop in former La
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Starbucks May Let La Boulange Locations Stay Open, Possibly Under Founder Pascal Rigo Starbucks is "in discussion with interested parties to transfer the leases for some retail locations" the chain tells Hoodline, with Eater and the Business Times getting in on the speculation that behind the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Starbucks Will Shutter All 23 La Boulange Locations Au revoir, La Boulange. Starbucks, which purchased the San Francisco coffee and baked goods chain for $100 million in 2012, has announced that it will shutter all of that chain's 23 locations, 15
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Starbucks Fans Revolt Over New La Boulange Pastries Elsewhere in the country it seems that the pastry offerings from Bay Area-based La Boulange, which replaced Starbucks' previous baked-item array over the past year in different regional rollouts, are too small and
SF News What We Talk About When We Talk About Formula Retail Formula retail. You know: chains. They're a hot topic in S.F. right now, especially in The Mission where a beloved used bookstore is becoming a Jack Spade, and in the Castro where
SF News Knife Crime 2013: Frappucino Likely Involved In Fisherman's Wharf Stabbing Although we cannot officially confirm the origin nor flavor of said beverage, the Examiner reports that a milkshake, or similar blended dessert drink, played an integral part in a stabbing on Jones Street
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Woman Attempts To Poison Starbucks Customers With World's Worst Screwdrivers In San Jose, 50-year-old Ramineh Behbehanian has been accused of trying to pass off two orange juice and rubbing alcohol cocktails as perfectly normal bottles of OJ and stashing them in a Starbucks
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Digital Divide Is Driving Kids To McDonald's As schools around the country have been moving towards online and digital tools for completing assignments, Internet access for low income families hasn't kept pace with the country's metro centers where Wi-Fi signals
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Blue Bottle Scores $20 Million Investment To Expand Into... Something Local third wave coffee roaster and noted denier of iced espresso shots, Blue Bottle Coffee just received a $20 million investment from two venture capital firms to presumably expand their operations. Blue Bottle
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Starbucks Buys La Boulange In an effort to overcome their reputation as a mediocre coffee chain with overly syruped seasonal beverages, Starbucks announced Monday that they are purchasing La Boulange for $100 million. The generally well-regarded San
SF News Photo: Oakland Cop Parks In Disabled Parking Spot While Getting Peet's Coffee An SFist tipster, who wishes to remain anonymous, sent us this photo of an Oakland police officer parking in a disabled parking space in Temescal on Monday while sipping some brew inside a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Squaw Valley Debuts World's First Ski-Thru Starbucks At Lake Tahoe's Squaw Valley, the ski resort and the ubiquitous latte purveyor have streamlined skiers and riders' caffeine-grabbing process with the world's first Starbucks location to feature a ski-up to-go window. Now
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Coast Dunkin' Donuts Drinkers Prove Too Sophisticated for Peet's Coffee In today's hard-hitting business news: the East Coast expansion of Peet's Coffee and Tea has not gone exactly as planned, it seems. East Coast coffee drinkers, with their delicate palates refined through years
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Castro Wants Another Starbucks for Some Reason Employing "reclaimed" gobbledygook as a selling point, Starbucks wants to put another damn spore in the Castro, a few blocks away from the bear-frequented Starbucks at 18th and Castro. With takeover plans zeroed
