Starbucks customers will notice some elaborate changes. As of Monday, the stores bring the condiments back and offer free recharges of certain drinks for dinner customers.
The self-service condiments, the home of creams, milk, sweeteners and agitators, were eliminated from Starbucks locations during the first days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Starbucks said previously that the return to let customers do it themselves will help release the baristas to make other drinks.
Starbucks is also bringing back cups of coffee and reusable coffee glasses for customers requesting “here” drinks.
“Offering customers to sit and maintain their drinks in ceramic and crystal stores is a way in which we return our coffees to warm welcome coffee shops,” said a Starbucks spokesman in a statement sent by email. “It is also another way that Starbucks is reducing waste and making each visit a more sustainable choice.”
More than 75% of the sales of American drinks from Starbucks are cold drinks, often served in plastic vessels. Although coffees offer recycling containers, a Recent CBS news research I discovered that many of those cups do not really end up being recycled. Is A problem That goes far beyond Starbucks, few Recycling facilities throughout the country this type of single -use plastic For processing.
Starbucks says it aims to reduce its general waste by 50% by 2030, and it was implemented redesigned cups Last year made with up to 20% less plastic.
Customers requesting their “for here” drinks, in a cup or reusable cup, will also be eligible for free recharges during that visit if they are heated or prepared coffee or tea in the participating locations in the United States and Canada. But Cold Brew fans, Nitro Cold Brew, iced tea lemonade, flavored iced tea and Starbucks soft drinks have no luck: those drinks are not included in the recharge agreement.
The CEO of Starbucks, Brian Niccol, last year He shared his vision of Starbucks becoming “a cozy cafeteria where people meet and where we serve the best coffee.”
Under his leadership, Starbucks also recently Inverted its open doors policyDemand that people make a purchase if they want to hang out in their coffee shops or use the bathrooms. The open door policy had been instituted in 2018, after Two black men They were arrested In a Starbucks of Philadelphia, where they had gone to a business meeting.