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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Starbucks Plans to Expand Outdoor Seating

The coffee shop will add an additional table and six patio chairs to an expanded patio just north of the existing patio on the west side of the building.

Do you like to sip lattes while taking in the scenes of Santa Monica and Silver Spring? With a new outdoor seating plan, Starbucks hopes to expand its popular outdoor patio by adding 104 square feet of patio space north of its existing 220-square-foot patio on the west side of the building.  The coffee shop at 302 E. Silver Spring Dr. received the Plan Commission's permission Tuesday night to create the expanded patio, which would accomodate an additional table, umbrella and six patio chairs. Starbucks' current patio features two tables and 17 chairs. This is the second modification in recent history for the Whitefish Bay Starbucks store. The coffee shop went through a renovation in late October that expanded the coffee brewing area, and …

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Jeff Rumage

9:36 pm on Wednesday, January 16, 2013

It does seem like a minor change given that it's only one table. For what it's worth, it will be a bit of a change in aesthetics as well, since the evergreens just north of the Santa Monica entrance will be taken down to make way for 100 square feet of paved patio space. They will plant new shrubbery along the perimeter of the new patio as well.   more ›

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Starbucks to Give Free Coffee on Fourth of July

To spark conversation about changing America’s “national spirit,” the coffee giant will be handing out free drinks on Independence Day.

The line outside Starbucks is going to be even longer than usual this Fourth of July. In a full-page ad in major Sunday newspapers, Starbucks CEO Harold Schultz said Starbucks will be handing out free cups of coffee on the Fourth of July, and for a good reason. The ad titled “How Can America Win This Election?” talks of the country’s dwindling national spirit and political divide. Shultz hopes that by offering the free Tall cup of brewed coffee, it’ll raise awareness for his campaign #INDIVISIBLE, a national conversation across all social media so “we can all put citizenship over partisanship.” “I love America, but we all know there is something wrong,” wrote Schultz. “The deficits this country must reconcile are much more than financial, …

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