Subject: Starbucks Corporation

• Starbucks Wants to Dress You!

  February 15, 2007

• New Zealanders Think We're Crazy

  May 5, 2008

• Calorie Listage Fallout

  July 7, 2008

• Former Welfare Island Now Lousy with Luxury Apts.

  September 2, 2008

• Local Outrages: Ratner's Wake-Up Call, Starbucks Cover-Up, Car Trouble in W'm'sburg

  September 16, 2008

• Starbucks Has Ruined Our Economy!

  Fuck you, Starbucks! For years you hypnotized Americans with your overpriced lattes, transfixing hordes of people to line up and pay huge wads of money on hot, silty shit with some foam on top and a fucking cinnamon stick in the middle. Their homes were being foreclosed, but these poor, thirsty creatures still found the cash to go three times a day to your freaking establishments and buy four-dollar caramel macchiatos and white chocolate mochas, getting fat off the calorie content while not re

  December 30, 2008

• Are Frogs the Next Fish?

  A new study finds that one billion frogs are harvested from the wild for human consumption each year, raising fears about population decline and the possible extinction of some species. [BBC News]Whole Foods and Starbucks make Fortune's 2009 'Best Companies to Work For' list.[Fortune via NY Daily News]Tragedy struck Chinatown yesterday when a delivery van hit a group of children, killing two and seriously injuring fourteen.[Yahoo News] Twelve to eighteen thousand restaurants across the country a

  January 23, 2009

• Starbucks Lays Off 6,700, Killing Our Dream

  It was our expectation, not to say our hope, that when we lost our job we could grab an apron and serve coffee at Starbucks. But now even those jobs are more competitive: in the wake of a 69 percent earnings drop, Starbucks announced it would close stores and lay off 6,700 employees. This will result in a Starbucks that is "leaner and prepared to endure a worsening economic climate," says its CEO, but it will also turn many nervous workers' worst-case strategy into an unattainable dream. The new

  January 28, 2009

• Cutbacks Are Swell!

  The news that Starbucks won't continually brew decaf after noon to save money is OK with me; I don't go to Starbucks and if I did, I certainly wouldn't drink decaf. The whole point of coffee is the freakin' caffeine! The development that the postal service might not deliver on Saturdays is absolutely cool with me too. Right now, I'm only getting bills in the mail, along with the occasional coupons for carpet cleaning and teeth whitening. I can certainly wait till Monday to deal with them! An

  January 30, 2009

• Jamie Oliver Good for Kids

  In the UK, a new study finds that Jamie Oliver's healthy school dinners significantly improved students' performance in the classroom.[Times of London]The misdiagnosis of food allergies is on the rise, seemingly due to the unreliability of blood tests.[NY Times] Eight O'Clock Coffee's Colombian coffee ranked number one in a Consumer Reports taste test, beating out Folgers, Maxwell House, and Starbucks.[NY Post]The Georgia state agriculture commissioner has been asked to step down amidst the salm

  February 3, 2009

• Starbucks Trying to Seem Affordable

  In an attempt to seem recession-affordable, Starbucks is rolling out a new breakfast pairing promotion where $3.95 will get you a latte and and an oatmeal or coffee cake.[WSJ]In Indiana, a rising demand for local, organic produce is resulting in a big increase in the number of small farms.[Chicago Tribune]Meanwhile, the Agriculture Department reports an increase in the number of small, part time farms, the kind run by former cubicle rats who decided they wanted a country life.[NY Times] Home des

  February 9, 2009

• Chocolate as International Comfort Food

  Despite the global economic downturn, 2008 saw record sales of Swiss chocolate. [BBC News]Meanwhile, in the fourth quarter or 2008, U.S. consumer spending on food dropped 3.7%, the steepest decline in the 62 years the Commerce Department has been compiling such data.[WSJ]The federal government has ordered Sixpoint brewery to stop selling its Hop Obama beer.[NY Post]Times are so tough that Starbucks is reportedly launching an instant coffee called Via.[Crain's]

  February 13, 2009

• Joy of Cooking Getting Fat

  A study comparing the 1931 Joy of Cooking to the 2006 edition found a 63% increase in calories in 17 of the recipes.[LA Times]Low milk prices are leading farmers to slaughter hundreds of thousands of dairy cows for meat because they can no longer afford to feed the animals.[AP via Chicago Tribune]After 41 years of selling hot dogs at Times Square, Angelo Pipas is retiring.[NY Post]A North Carolina couple that first met at a local Starbucks got married there on Valentine's Day.[NY Daily News]

  February 17, 2009

• Has Food Replaced Sex?

  In a Policy Review essay entitled "Is Food the New Sex?", Mary Eberstadt says that food has become what sex was a generation ago. As our attitudes about sex have become more relaxed and casual, we've focused our moral judgments on eating.[Washington Post]Shocker! A new poll finds that New Yorkers like to drink.[NY Post]Another shocker. Some doctors, dietitians, and eating disorder specialist worry that health-obsessed parents are creating food anxieties in their children.[NY Times]The Daily News

  February 26, 2009

• What Are The Most Recession-Proof Jobs?

  The last thing you would tell a college student today would be "Work for a car company," "Get a job at Starbucks," or "Go into ponzi schemes." Certain lines of work like those are, shall we say, slowing down more than others due to the economic freefall, and it would be rather sadistic to encourage newbies to pursue a profession where the trap door has already been opened and the doorman of hell is waiting with a guest list.

  March 12, 2009

• Quitting Time: Call a Meeting With Colleagues at End of Day

  February 7, 2006

• Rage Against the Caffeine

  April 18, 2000

• Grande skim vanilla latte—hold the hormones!

  January 23, 2007

• Now Hiring: Cesare Casella, Laurent Tourondel, and some "crazy, sexist crookz"

  March 15, 2007

• Manhattan's Best Iced Coffee

  July 16, 2007

• Marcus Samuelsson and Starbucks Sitting in a Tree

  August 28, 2007

• Now Hiring: Spotted Pig, La Esquina, Picknick

  September 21, 2007

• Last Train to Waffleville

  January 23, 2001

• My Faraona

  July 29, 2003

• No More Coffee Talk

  October 19, 2004

• Natural Selection

  March 29, 2005

• Big Joe Goes Down

  April 5, 2005

• One More Cup of CD for the Road

  May 24, 2005

• Letters

  May 31, 2005

• 'Never Been Thawed'

  September 27, 2005

• Coffee Abuse

  December 13, 2005

• Letters

  December 20, 2005

• Ale-ing Tiger Prevails

  June 5, 2007

• The Day After

  August 28, 2007

• ON THE FRINGE

  February 19, 2008

• Thank You for Sponsoring

  January 24, 2006

• Kids in the Thrall

  March 15, 2005

• Coke-stuffed Melons, American Gins, and How To Eat More Slowly By Counting Your Chips

  BRUNCH, the musical, offered New York chefs, waiters, restaurant managers and bartenders free tickets to the 8pm performance last night, on Easter Sunday, in an effort to give back to the community that inspired the show. [Broadway World] Queens shoppers who bought bitter melon recently were surprised to find that, upon slicing open the cucumber-shaped gourd, baggies of a mysterious white powder were found inside. Police have yet to confirm it as a drug smuggling gone wrong. [NY Times] The fi

  April 13, 2009

• Armed Robberies At Starbucks Locations in the Village?

  Poor Starbucks employees: company stocks are dropping, stores are closing, and now, some mad men are robbing them at gun point and herding them into the freezer at locations around the Village.We learned about these armed robberies this afternoon while buying an iced coffee to celebrate the sunny weather at the Starbucks on Astor Place. A police officer standing by the milk and sugar station was distributing a flier to a store manager and warning him about the robberies, which have also occurred

  April 17, 2009

• Friday Internet Schadenfreude: Why The F*ck Do You Have a Kid?

  Pretty sleepy day -- we haven't the heart to take on the closing of (one of) our neighborhood Starbucks, giving local thugs one less place to lock people in the freezer. So here, enjoy please Why The Fuck Do You Have a Kid? It's the Hot Ghetto Mess of April 2009. And it teaches a valuable lesson about parental responsibility.

  April 24, 2009

• Giada Speaks About Frenemy Rachael Ray; Ground Beef Recalled

  Giada De Laurentiis told Redbook that the rumor about the rivalry between herself and Rachael Ray is not true. "Do we hang out all the time? No. Are we best friends? No," says the Food Network star, but she claims to have no beef with Rach. [People] The latest in food safety scares: beef. A meatpacker in Illinois recalled 95,898 pounds of ground-beef products after E. coli infections connected to the product were discovered. The meat was sold under such brand names as Grillmaster, Klub, and Thi

  May 22, 2009

• Starbucks Explosion: Jihad Against Queen Esther Mermaid?

  Baristas never get the day off: The 3 a.m. explosion that rocked an Upper East Side Starbucks yesterday, likely the result of a small bomb, hasn't gotten the Third Avenue store employees out of any of their foaming duties. A Starbucks spokesperson writes via email that "though the store was temporarily closed following the incident, it is now reopened." The spokesperson also says that "Customer and partner (employee) safety is our top priority." Last week, one blogger speculated that Starbucks

  May 26, 2009

• The Blogroll Gazette--Top Chef Masters Reactions & Food Inc. Reviews Abound

  This week in food blogs... The Feedbag and Eat Me Daily weighed in on the discussion presented at "Gender Confusion: Unraveling the Myths of Gender in the Restaurant Kitchen," a panel discussion held at the Astor Center this week. Ed Levine of Serious Eats sat on the panel. Conclusion? Not really because the chefs "cooked in drag." Eat Me Daily rounded up reviews of Food Inc., which range from unimpressed (from the Post: "The movie offers very little that food radicals don't already know.") to

  June 12, 2009

• Healthier Ice Cream; Greener Coffee & A Dog Fight

  Mark Bittman points to an article in the SF Chronicle by his friend Marion Nestle about the benefits--or lack thereof--of organic food. Nestle answers such questions as "Aren't organics elitist?" [NY Times] "In the dog-eat-dog restaurant business..." Iconic Chicago hot dog stand SuperDawg is taking New York restaurateur Danny Omari to court for trademark infringement for his new joint SuperDog on MacDougal Street. SuperDawg is not letting up, even though Omari ended up opening the restaurant of

  June 25, 2009

• Cops Nab Fight Club-Loving Teen for 5/25 Starbucks Bombing

  Tim Hortons will sleep soundly tonight! Cops have caught a suspect in the Memorial Day Starbucks bombing: teenager Kyle Shaw of West 27th Street. Cops say Shaw is into Fight Club, as who isn't, but that he took it further than most of us dweebs and actually started his own Project Mayhem. But he forgot the first rule of Fight Club, and bragged about his bombing to friends, leading to his arrest. Cops found on him a DVD of the movie and some sparklers. Can America's supermax prisons hold this d

  July 15, 2009

• Booze News: Diageo Names Bartender of the Year; Starbucks to Serve Booze

  Wondering what Marco Pierre White has been up to since The Chopping Block? For starters, he got his drink on as the host of spirits brand Diageo's Bartender of the Year 2009 awards in London. Aristotelis Papadopoulos from Thessaloniki beat 18 finalists from as far as Korean and the Cayman Islands. [Caterer Search] Casa Lapostolle, which owns three biodynamic vineyards in Chile, has secured carbon neutral status, as certified by the CarbonNeutral Company. The winery says it achieved the status t

  July 21, 2009

• Starbucks Bomber out on Bail

  The AP reports that Kyle Shaw, the 17-year-old arrested and charged with arson, criminal possession of a weapon, and criminal mischief in the Memorial Day weekend bombing of an Upper East Side Starbucks, has been released on $300,000 bail. The recent high school grad and Fight Club fanatic detonated the homemade bomb in the early morning hours outside of a Starbucks on East 92nd Street, shattering its windows but injuring no one. Shaw, who will wear an ankle monitor while out on bail, pleaded no

  July 21, 2009

• The Blogroll Gazette: Instant Starbucks, Shitshows & a Swedish Meatball Truck

  This week in food blogs... Eat Me Daily posted Sandra Lee's response to Anthony Bourdain's calling her "pure evil": "He needs to have a cocktail and lighten up." Serious Eats pitted Starbucks' new line of instant coffee packets against Nescafe. The result? Instant Starbucks "really isn't bad." Midtown Lunch talked to Miss Softee, who belongs to Queen Frostine, an all-female collective of midtown ice cream truck drivers. The Feedbag would rather eat at one of five restaurants that serve up cl

  August 14, 2009

• Starbucks Clashes With Union, Again

  ​Last night, Starbucks workers held a protest at the company's Manhattan regional headquarters to protest an increase in the amount employees must pay towards their health insurance coverage. As reported on the Times' City Room blog, this is hardly the first time Starbucks has clashed with unionized workers: Last year, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that the company had violated labor laws and illegally fired three baristas. The current dispute with Starbucks is one of many chron

  August 18, 2009

• Carly Simon Sues Starbucks; Are Burgers Bad?

  ​Should Americans banish burgers? Ground beef contaminated with E. coli bacteria has sickened, paralyzed, and even killed people. Bill Marler, an expert on foodborne illness litigation, has been trying to rid the American diet of burgers since the Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak of 1993. [CNN] Carly Simon is suing Starbucks for poor record sales. Just days after she signed with Hear Music, the Starbucks label, the coffee chain scaled back its involvement in the music business. [NY Times]

  October 13, 2009