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 When Dumb Lawsuits Attack 

Damages claimed for mistaken impressions, aggressive toilet seat

Mar 23, 08 5:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Emotional trauma because she used the men’s restroom? Surfer in pain after losing his wave? The Daily Mirror digs up the silliest lawsuits ever filed:
  1. Whale tale: After their 27-year-old son was found dead on the back of an orca, parents sued SeaWorld for depicting killer whales as
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Starbucks • MTV • list • lawsuit • SeaWorld • frivolous lawsuits • civil lawsuits • Jackass • litigation

Starbucks
Owes Baristas
$100M in Tips 

Court says supervisors shouldn't be taking a cut out of  tip jar

Mar 21, 08 7:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Starbucks will have to shell out more than $100 million to its baristas in California because they had to share the tip jar with supervisors, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports. A judge ruled that the coffee giant violated the state's labor code and ordered it to make amends to 120,000... More »

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California • Starbucks • coffee • lawsuit • class action • labor code

UPDATED

 Starbucks Rolls Out  
 Customer-Focused Changes 

Loyalty card, new machines headline plans to jolt coffee giant

Mar 19, 08 2:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - A customer-loyalty card, a new website and upgraded brewing machines highlighted changes in store at Starbucks, the Wall Street Journal reports, with CEO Howard Schultz using today's annual meeting to re-focus the firm on quality of customer experience. The card will offer rewards for regulars at the coffee giant, which... More »

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social networking • Howard Schultz • Starbucks • McDonald's • iPhone • coffee • training • Dunkin' Donuts • gourmet coffee • espresso • Clover • Coffee Equipment Co.

Rivals Earn as Starbucks Learns

Rival coffee chains target customers as Starbucks takes training break

Feb 27, 08 8:10 AM CST
(Newser) - Starbucks customers and competition alike got to know each other yesterday as the java giant closed for a 3-hour training break for all employee, reports the AP. "Free-market economy, baby! You've got to take advantage of what the competition throws at you," said one former Starbucks devotee swilling... More »

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Starbucks • coffee • training • Dunkin' Donuts • espresso

Starbucks to Close 7,100 US Stores Today

Relax: It's just for 3 hours, and Dunkin' Donuts has 99¢ coffee

Feb 26, 08 12:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Get your afternoon latte early today, because Starbucks—all 7,100 US locations—is closing at 5:30pm for 3 hours of staff training, CNNMoney reports. The company says it hopes baristas will  “deepen their passion for coffee” and even “transform the customer experience,” not to speak... More »

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Starbucks • coffee • training • Dunkin' Donuts • espresso

Mickey D's Risks Big
in Java War

New coffee line is risky business for Golden Arches, Tribune says

Feb 24, 08 5:58 AM CST
(Newser) - McDonald’s may have Egg McMuffin on its face if it can't out-grind Starbucks with a new line of premium coffees, the Chicago Tribune reports. The new coffee rollout, threatened by a shaky economy, marks one of the company’s riskiest launches ever, according to analysts. As food and labor... More »

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Starbucks • Chicago • McDonald's • coffee • franchise • same-store sales • Big Mac

Starbucks Testing $2.50 Cup of Brew

Slumping company looks to both high-end and low-end products

Feb 15, 08 9:03 AM CST
(Newser) - Struggling with its first major sales slump, Starbucks hopes to lure back customers with a $2.50 cup of luxury coffee. The company hopes to find a high-end niche among serious coffee aficionados with the new brew, made in an $11,000 gizmo similar to a French press, Bloomberg reports.... More »

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Starbucks • McDonald's • coffee • Dunkin' Donuts • gourmet coffee • breakfast sandwiches • sales slump

Saudi Religious Cops Toss US Exec in Pokey

Her crime? Sitting with a male colleague at Starbucks

Feb 7, 08 8:25 AM CST
(Newser) - A 37-year-old American businesswoman says Saudi Arabia's religious police swooped her out of a Riyadh Starbucks and bundled her off to jail, where she was strip searched, humiliated, and bullied into signing confessions, reports the Times of London—all for sharing a table with a male colleague when the Internet... More »

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Saudi Arabia • Starbucks • women's rights • taboo • Mutaween • religious police • Islamic moral code

Fortune Names Top Employers

Fortune Lists the top 100

Feb 3, 08 5:32 AM CST
(Newser) - Thinking of a career move? Fortune Magazine has released its 100 best employers for 2008 list—and the top 10 are:
  1. Google (Mountain View, CA)
  2. Quicken Loans (Livonia, MI)
  3. Wegmans Food Markets (Rochester, NY)
  4. Edward Jones (St. Louis, MO)
  5. Genentech (South San Francisco, CA)
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Google • Starbucks • list • Cisco • Genentech • Fortune • best companies • Wegmans • Quicken • Edward Jones

MARKETS

Bonds Confidence Boosts Stocks

Insurer MBIA says its rating will be just fine

Jan 31, 08 3:32 PM CST
(Newser) - Markets were up sharply today on calming words from bond insurer MBIA, with the Dow closing at 12,650.36, up 207.53. The company said its triple-A rating was not vulnerable and that it was solvent enough to weather the mortgage crisis, MarketWatch reports. The Nasdaq gained 40.86... More »

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Starbucks • Dow Jones • Nasdaq • MBIA • S&P 500 • Amazon.com

Starbucks Cuts Stores, Skips Breakfast

Faltering biz drops egg-and-cheese fare to
focus on cuppa Joe

Jan 31, 08 9:25 AM CST
(Newser) - The founder and returning head of Starbucks has announced plans to turn the flagging operation around by taking it back to its intimate coffee-house roots, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. CEO Howard Schultz is ditching the chain's profitable morning sandwich line after listening to advice from baristas who complained that the... More »

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Howard Schultz • Starbucks • coffee • breakfast sandwiches • baristas

Starbucks Tries Out $1 Coffee

Java giant also trying free refills in Seattle experiment

Jan 23, 08 2:50 PM CST
(Newser) - Starbucks is offering a low-cost option as it experiments with new approaches in the face of fresh competition from McDonald's, the Wall Street Journal reports. While Starbucks made its fortune on extravagantly named $4 offerings, an 8-ounce “short” cup is now available for $1 in the Seattle area, and... More »

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Howard Schultz • Starbucks • McDonald's • coffee • Dunkin' Donuts • free refills

NEW RELEASE

Sia's Real Problems Pleases

First album from songstress in 4 years is a winner

Jan 10, 08 12:13 PM CST
(Newser) - Folk and acid-jazz queen Sia Furler has returned with her first record in four years, and critics are singing the praises of Some People Have Real Problems. The New York Sun’s Bret McCabe pokes fun at Furler for signing with the Starbucks label—provenance of “laid-back background music... More »

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Starbucks • Beck • folk • music label • Sia Furler • Zero 7 • acid jazz • Some People Have Real Problems • music review

Starbucks' Union-Busting Campaign Before Judge

Brewhaha over coffee bosses' plot to stop baristas from organizing

Jan 10, 08 3:05 AM CST
(Newser) - Starbucks bosses trying to stop baristas from union organizing did some internet sleuthing to discover who had graduated from a university labor program—and even had Halloween partygoers snooped on, the Wall Street Journal reports. Starbucks' own emails detailing "our attempts to thwart a potential union situation" by identifying... More »

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Starbucks • coffee • unions • labor • union busting

Starbucks Founder Back
in CEO Saddle

Will pare back coffee giant after sales stall and stocks tumble

Jan 7, 08 7:45 PM CST
(Newser) - Starbucks reacted to slow sales and new competition today by bringing back founder Howard Schultz as CEO, replacing folksy chief exec Jim Donald. "We must address the challenges we face and we know what has to be done," Schultz said. Schultz vows to reignite sales by trimming back... More »

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Howard Schultz • Starbucks • coffee • CEO • stocks • US economy • Jim Donald

New McD's Menu Muscles
In on Starbucks

Fast-food giant
adds baristas, fancy coffee, $1B in sales

Jan 7, 08 11:15 AM CST
(Newser) - You’ll be able to get cappuccinos, lattes, and frappes from a certified barista beneath the Golden Arches this fall, reports the Wall Street Journal, as McDonald's takes on Starbucks. It’s the fast-food behemoth's biggest menu addition in 30 years, and the company expects it to bring in $1... More »

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Starbucks • McDonald's • coffee • fast food • gourmet coffee • specialty drinks • frappes • lattes • menu • barista • cappuccino

Starbucks Patrons Spread the Cheer

Pay-it-forward treat proves contagious at Washington store

Dec 21, 07 5:02 PM CST
(Newser) - In what's being hailed as a true display of holiday goodwill, customers at a Starbucks in Marysville, Wash., have been "paying ahead"—paying for the next car in the drive-through order—in a “chain of cheer” more than 800 lattes long. The Seattle Times reports that the... More »

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Starbucks • holiday • Christmas

MARKETS

Dow Up After Roller-Coaster Day

Bad news doesn't halt rally; markets end week up

Nov 16, 07 3:44 PM CST
(Newser) - The major indexes closed up today after erratic trading as bad news on industrial production and new negative forecasts failed to halt an end-of-week rally. The Dow gained 66.74 to 13,176.79, the Nasdaq climbed 18.73 to 2,637.24, and the S&P 500 closed at... More »

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Starbucks • Federal Reserve • Dow Jones • Merrill Lynch • Nasdaq • FedEx • John Thain • S&P 500

Starbucks Reports First
Dip in Customers

Customer traffic down at coffee-shop giant's US stores for the first time

Nov 15, 07 9:51 PM CST
(Newser) - Starbucks reported its first-ever decline in US customer visits today, reports Bloomberg. The coffee juggernaut lowered its profit and sales forecast, and shares of its stock fell 8.3%. The profit revision suggests that Starbucks is losing customers to McDonald's and Dunkin' Donuts, where a cup of coffee may cost... More »

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Starbucks • McDonald's • coffee • US economy • gourmet coffee • breakfast sandwiches

Citizens Make Own Galaxy
Far, Far Away

New York Jedi teaches lightsaber; ‘skill and confidence’ emerge

Oct 2, 07 5:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - One unemployed theater techie is giving Industrial Light & Magic a run for its money, bringing lightsaber skills to a Manhattan dance studio and “high personal ethics” to everyday geeks. New York Jedi braintrust Master Flynn teaches swordplay, along with meditation and yoga techniques, to men bearing replicas of... More »

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Starbucks • Manhattan • Star Wars • light saber • Jedi • yoga • Industrial Light and Magic

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