{"id":31353,"date":"2025-09-19T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/31353\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T11:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T11:00:10","slug":"starbucks-breaks-silence-after-barista-refuses-to-write-charlie-kirks-name-on-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/31353\/","title":{"rendered":"Starbucks breaks silence after barista refuses to write Charlie Kirk\u2019s name on cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Starbucks <\/a>broke its silence on company policy after one of its employees refused to write Charlie Kirk\u2019s<\/a> name on a cup following a customer\u2019s request. This comes after the customer shared her Starbucks <\/a>experience in a now-viral video on TikTok, as per The Independent.<\/p>\n

\"Starbucks Starbucks breaks silence after employee refuses to write Charlie Kirk\u2019s name on cup.(AP) Starbucks reacts to Charlie Kirk controversy<\/p>\n

\u201cIn response to online discussion about our policy for customer names on orders, we wanted to provide the facts and share some background. Starbucks is a company built on human connection. Having a name, rather than a number, attached to a customer order has been a core part of the Starbucks coffeehouse experience for decades. Most customers use their own name. And when a customer wants to use a different name \u2014 including the name Charlie Kirk \u2014 when ordering their drink in our caf\u00e9, we aim to respect their preference,\u201d Starbucks wrote in an official statement.<\/p>\n

Starbucks said that they had instances in the past where some people asked baristas to write political slogans on their cups. \u201cAnd in some cases, as their ‘name,’ they have provided words that are sexually explicit or otherwise offensive,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n

The company argued that it was for this reason that they had \u201cprovided guidance to our partners to respectfully ask the customer to use a different name when attempting to use political slogans or phrases in place of their name.\u201d \u201cWe are clarifying with our team now that names, on their own, can be used by customers on their caf\u00e9 order, as they wish,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n

Also read: Starbucks under fire after barista refuses to write Charlie Kirk’s name on coffee cup: \u2018I\u2019m done with\u2026\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

Starbucks barista refused to write Charlie Kirk\u2019s name on a cup<\/p>\n

Starbucks came under fire after a barista refused to write Charlie Kirk\u2019s name on a cup at a \u200b\u200bCalifornia outlet. To honour Charlie Kirk, a customer ordered the Turning Point USA co-founder\u2019s favourite drink, Mint Majesty tea. As the order arrived, she requested a barista to pen Charlie Kirk\u2019s name on the cup.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t do political names, but it [the register] didn\u2019t even ask for a name to begin with, so it\u2019s going to be $3.75,\u201d the barista told the customer, as per The Independent.<\/p>\n

FAQs:Where was Charlie Kirk assassinated?<\/p>\n

Charlie Kirk was assassinated on the campus of Utah Valley University on September 10.<\/p>\n

Why did the Starbucks barista refuse to write Charlie Kirk\u2019s name on the cup?<\/p>\n

The Starbucks barista refused to write Charlie Kirk\u2019s name on the cup because of company policy.<\/p>\n

Who is the CEO of Starbucks?<\/p>\n

Brian Niccol is the CEO of Starbucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starbucks broke its silence on company policy after one of its employees refused to write Charlie Kirk\u2019s name…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[30128,30131,138,17757,30130,30129,111,139,69,24918],"class_list":{"0":"post-31353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-barista","9":"tag-brian-niccol","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-charlie-kirk","12":"tag-company-policy","13":"tag-customer-names","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-starbucks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}