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Interns of the world rejoice! (Or maybe cower in fear, depending upon how much importance you place on your coffee-running abilities.) Starbucks<\/a> has announced that they are teaming up with Uber Eats to offer delivery coffee<\/a> from nearly a quarter of their company-owned US stores.<\/p>\n According to Forbes<\/a>, the Seattle coffee chain will roll out delivery at nearly 2,000 stores during the first quarter of 2019. After a successful expansion into China that was bolstered by a delivery partnership with Alibaba<\/a>, Starbucks is leaning more heavily on delivery, which is already showing signs of profitability domestically. From Forbes:<\/p>\n In the past two years, U.S. mobile orders for delivery and pay at Starbucks’ U.S. company-owned stores have more than doubled to 12% of those stores’ total sales, from 5%. That outpaced the growth in drive-through sales, which increased to 37% of the\u00a0total, from 34%, during the same period, Starbucks said Thursday. Meanwhile, orders made at brick-and-mortar caf\u00e9s declined to 51% of the business, from 61%.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Starbucks has been testing delivery with Uber Eats in Tokyo and Miami and is now ready to make the move nationwide. It\u2019s part of the company\u2019s 2019 growth strategy that also includes bringing nitro cold brew to all company-operated stores by the end of the 2019 fiscal year \u201cto meet growing consumer demand\u201d as well as opening its second US-based Starbucks Reserve Roastery\u2014this one in New York\u2019s Meatpacking district\u2014to compete with \u201cthe growing crop of specialty coffee shops\u00a0like Blue Bottle Coffee<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Now, getting your mid-day Bux fix will be easier than ever. Too bad your drink will be dead by the time it gets to you. Hopefully by 2020, they will roll out a new “barista on a scooter” initiative to make drinks at your preferred destination. Or, you know, just got get the damn coffee yourself.<\/p>\n Zac Cadwalader<\/a>\u00a0is the news editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas.\u00a0Read more Zac Cadwalader\u00a0on Sprudge<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Top image via Skyscraperpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Coming In 2019, Starbucks Is Bringing Coffee Delivery To The States<\/a> appeared first on Sprudge<\/a>.<\/p>\n Source: Coffee News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Interns of the world rejoice! (Or maybe cower in fear, depending upon how much importance you place on your coffee-running abilities.) Starbucks has announced that they are teaming up with…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[63,27,65,33,61,32,59,31,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n