{"id":610683,"date":"2026-09-24T21:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T21:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/610683\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T21:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T21:14:09","slug":"starbucks-to-close-250-more-cafes-in-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/610683\/","title":{"rendered":"Starbucks to close 250 more cafes in North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">Niccol, who previously led fast-food chain Chipotle, has aimed to boost Starbucks in its home market after a period of lagging performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">He has touted \u201cGreen Apron Service\u201d, where drink preparers, or baristas, are supposed to make an extra effort, whether through putting notes to customers on drink orders or \u201cwhether it\u2019s a friendly smile, remembering your name, or making your day just a little bit better\u201d, as it says on Starbucks\u2019 website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">Starbucks had previously planned to open between 600-650 stores this year around the world. But in a securities filing, the company, which has 41,000 stores globally, said it would open around 440 shops in fiscal 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">Starbucks shares were down 1.2% in early afternoon trading on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">&#8211; AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Niccol, who previously led fast-food chain Chipotle, has aimed to boost Starbucks in its home market after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[94392,12587,696,138,48706,651,17379,1656,4480,1644,15221,78,700,130,111,139,529,69,6443,24918,61,1533],"class_list":["post-610683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-94392","tag-america","tag-announced","tag-business","tag-cafes","tag-close","tag-coffee","tag-company","tag-drive","tag-financial","tag-improve","tag-in","tag-latest","tag-more","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-returns","tag-starbucks","tag-to","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610683","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=610683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}