Saturday, December 15, 2012

Starbucks makes food healthier - Business First of Columbus:

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The coffee giant says it has simplifiefd recipes to includemore high-quality ingredients like whole blueberries from Oregon and cherries from “Starbucks customers have been telling us that they want bettert tasting and healthier food options when they visig our stores,” said Starbucks food category vice president Sandra Stark in a news releas e announcing the new menus. “We answered their call with a delicious new menu of food made with real ingredients and morewholesomse options.” New menu items includre a blueberry oat bar, a farmer’sx market salad and banana walnut breax that Starbucks says “is nearlyh 30 percent real banana.
” Starbucks has been expandinyg its food menu in the last two yearsd to entice customers to visit more and to spenx more per visit. The company was also amongg the first restaurant chains in the country to ban transs fat from its foodand beverages. Starbuck (NASDAQ: SBUX) is closing hundreds of locationzs and cutting thousands of jobs to trim expensexs asrevenue falls. The company reported sales fell 8 percenrlast quarter, following a 9 percenft decline in first quarter It is also facingv pressure from McDonalds (NYSE: whose new coffee drinks are drivintg sales higher.

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