Google wants America to run on Dunkin’ and Waze. Dunkin’ Donuts announced the rollout of a mobile order-ahead service in Google’s popular Waze navigation app on Wednesday, hoping to take advantage of… Read More
McDonald’s is going mobile in an effort to court new customers and keep up with competitors. On Wednesday, the fast food chain’s leadership told analysts that they plan to roll… Read More
The new “Starbucks Rewards” program (formally My Starbucks Rewards) launches Tuesday with an app upgrade and a new system for awarding stars, the coffee giant’s version of points. Users previously earned… Read More
Nine months after launching order ahead in just one market, Starbucks says they are accelerating the roll out of the mobile service after seeing significantly more transactions in stores where it is live.… Read More
Subway customers can now skip the line by placing orders for their six-inch or foot-long sandwich on their phone or computer. The fast-food sandwich shop, which operates one of the largest… Read More
Starbucks’ Adam Brotman and I met up in a Starbucks this morning to talk about the launch of mobile ordering at 3,400 more stores. As of today, customers at more than 4,000… Read More
Starbucks’ new mobile service, which allows customers to buy a cup of coffee from their phone before entering the store, is now live in more than 4,000 of its cafes across the country.… Read More
Starbucks has finally launched mobile ordering in its hometown of Seattle today, so I no longer have to be jealous of Portland, where it’s been live for the past three months. Without… Read More
Starbucks said today that its new mobile ordering service, which allows people to buy a cup of coffee without having to stand in line, will expand to 650 cafes across the Northwest next… Read More
Ready to get that Starbucks coffee delivered to your desk? CEO Howard Schultz confirmed on the company’s earnings call Thursday that Starbucks will roll out delivery service in the second half… Read More
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said on the company’s earnings conference call this afternoon that mobile ordering and payments will expand soon to more than 600 stores in the Pacific Northwest. A… Read More
PORTLAND, Ore. – Is Starbucks a tech company or a retailer? That was the question I posed to Starbucks Chief Digital Officer Adam Brotman yesterday in Portland, where the company… Read More
PORTLAND, Ore. — Starbucks launched a major new initiative today, allowing people to place orders from their iPhone for pick-up at a nearby store. As part of the launch, Adam Brotman, Starbucks’… Read More
PORTLAND, Ore. — Two minutes after ordering my tall sugar-free vanilla latte on my iPhone, a barista called my name saying it was ready. A minute or two after that,… Read More