The new Hacienda Alsacia coffee is available exclusively at Starbucks shops in Costa Rica, but the company is currently conducting research to assess options to take it to other countries.
Coffee giant Starbucks on Thursday will open its eighth location in Costa Rica in a renovated house in Los Yoses, east of San José, and company managers confirmed they will open two more by the end of the year.
Starbucks is better known for serving coffee than growing it, but one day your latte might be made with coffee developed by the Seattle-based company here in Costa Rica.
Despite reports of slow growth in Costa Rica’s business sector, those operating under the franchising regime grew by 12.7 percent, according to the National Franchise Center, part of the Costa Rican Chamber of Commerce.
NEW YORK – Rock icon Neil Young has pledged to stop drinking at Starbucks over an industry challenge to laws on genetically modified crops, but the coffee giant says the charges are false.
What was once novel – the warm décor, the gentle music, the faux-Italian lingo – has become banal. Today's coffee snobs would rather snort Sanka than set foot inside a Starbucks.
