{"id":1302,"date":"2020-03-06T11:26:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T04:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illume-emag.com\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2020-03-06T11:26:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T04:26:15","slug":"starbucks-bans-personal-cups-us-canada-stores-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/starbucks-bans-personal-cups-us-canada-stores-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Starbucks bans personal cups in US, Canada stores over coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reusable cups are in vogue for reducing waste but are no longer welcome at Starbucks cafes over fears of the coronavirus, the coffee chain announced.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1303\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1303\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1303 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/starbucks-bans.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/starbucks-bans.jpg 640w, https:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/starbucks-bans-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/starbucks-bans-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Starbucks bans personal cups in US, Canada stores over coronavirus, Photo by Saul Loeb\/AFP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We are pausing the use of personal cups and &#8216;for here&#8217; ware in our stores,&#8221; said Rossann Williams, executive vice president and president of US company-operated business and Canada, in a statement on Wednesday (Mar 4), adding that Starbucks would honour their 10-cent discounts for customers who arrive with their own cup even if they won&#8217;t fill it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2018, 1.3 per cent of customers in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East and Africa were served drinks in cups they brought along, the company said in its annual report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starbucks told AFP that the decision to ban reusable cups was made over concerns for &#8220;health and well-being,&#8221; and the company is &#8220;optimistic this will be a temporary situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The move was the latest sign of the viral outbreak&#8217;s disruption of daily life as it spreads across the globe, having now killed 3,300 people and infected 97,000 after beginning in China.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Airlines are slashing flights to countries with large outbreaks, schools are closing, meetings are being cancelled and many companies are changing their operations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Williams said Starbucks had &#8220;restricted&#8221; business-related air travel both in the United States and abroad through the end of March and &#8220;modified or postponed&#8221; meetings at US and Canada offices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The company said it had also &#8220;increased cleaning and sanitising for all company-operated stores to help prevent the spread of all germs, adding paid time for our partners supporting this work&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Williams said the company&#8217;s US and international markets have learned from &#8220;our leadership team and partners in China who were first faced with this epidemic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United States has the most licensed and company-operated Starbucks branches, followed by China where half of them had closed because of the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Source: AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reusable cups are in vogue for reducing waste but are no longer welcome at Starbucks cafes over fears of the coronavirus, the coffee chain announced. &#8220;We are pausing the use of personal cups and &#8216;for here&#8217; ware in our stores,&#8221; said Rossann Williams, executive vice president and president of US company-operated business and Canada, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[761,765],"tags":[787,781,979],"class_list":{"0":"post-1302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-buzz","8":"category-moments","9":"tag-corona-news","10":"tag-corona-virus","11":"tag-starbucks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}