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“I want to unionize as many Starbucks as I can get”
Union organizer Pablo Guerra helped employees band together at Canada’s only unionized Starbucks. Now, he’s at the head of unionizing efforts underway across the country
What’s the best coffee loyalty card in Canada?
Comparing Tim Hortons, McDonald’s, Starbucks and other leading chains. Here’s who deserves your loyalty.
The results are in: Tim Hortons is no longer Canada’s favourite coffee shop
Move over Tim Hortons, Canadians have a new favourite coffee shop: McDonald’s. More than 1,500 people have voted using Maclean’s Coffee Ranker, which went live on Monday. The tool lets users rank the 15 largest national and regional chains that sell coffee in the country. A first place vote gets 15 points, a second place vote…
Angel investments: Considering the limits of corporate do-goodery
Starbucks’ latest bold plan, this time to fix youth unemployment, signals a good time to think about what businesses get out of doing social good
Here’s why food companies are rushing to sell mini snacks
Mini Frappuccinos and tiny cans of Coke are part of a trend towards ‘portion control’ while also satisfying those grazing millennials
How Starbucks’ Race Together campaign is playing out
Care for a discussion about race with your latte? In Starbucks around America, the reaction hasn’t been quite as scornful
Have we reached peak pumpkin spice?
The pumpkin-spice backlash has spawned its own bona fide cultural industry. Is it too much of a gourd thing?
Starbucks threatens legal action over pub using ‘Frappicino’ name
It’s a triple venti pub brawl
Starbucks says, ‘no guns with your coffee, plz’ (and other business stories)
September roundup: Our favourite news
New York Starbucks baristas sue supervisors for taking from the tip jar
No food service employee is immune to the end-of-shift scramble for nickels and dimes left in the tip jar. But a group of Starbucks baristas in New York are arguing that shift supervisors shouldn’t be putting their hands in the cookie jar, so to speak.
Starbucks go home: plans for new Paris location spark uproar
The coffee juggernaut plans to open a café in Montmartre, to the dismay of locals
Starbucks now serving a billion latte sippers in China
The iconic coffee company plans on opening 1,500 new outposts by 2015