Starbucks’ MAHA Misstep
For paid subscribers: What Starbucks’ CEO Brian Niccol’s meeting with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. says about the company’s embrace of coffee’s wellness trend—and the trend’s darker side.
Featuring a relaunched definitely-not-Starbucks in Russia
This week’s Coffee News Roundup features a very lackluster attempt to ape the Starbucks brand by the duo who have taken over the company’s Russian locations. Then there’s a coffee maker that makes coffee by reusing ground coffee, and a federal judge orders Starbucks to reinstate the fired Memphis Seven. Plus, coffee and cigarettes.
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