{"id":476553,"date":"2026-09-26T15:28:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T15:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/476553\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T15:28:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T15:28:38","slug":"these-11-bay-area-starbucks-stores-to-permanently-close-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/476553\/","title":{"rendered":"These 11 Bay Area Starbucks Stores To Permanently Close This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 2240 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa<\/p>\n<p>Most stores are operating regular business hours Saturday, then permanently closing. The location at 3547 Mt. Diablo Blvd. in Lafayette will close at 7 p.m. Friday. Many workers said that they were only informed Thursday that the branch would be closing.<\/p>\n<p>Employees at many of the closing branches face an uncertain future. An employee at one branch confirmed to Patch that they will be transferred, but many others said they will find out Sunday whether or not they have jobs at other locations. <\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wthr.com\/article\/news\/nation-world\/starbucks-closing-list-locations-nationwide\/507-cdb95ac8-c4fc-47c6-aa5f-a30b6af4f3cb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">total of 64 locations in California<\/a> are expected to close based on location hours, which comes to roughly 2.1% of the state\u2019s 3,058 locations. Outside the Bay Area, the likely closures include: <\/p>\n<p> 20 in Los Angeles County6 in Orange County7 in San Diego County4 in the Inland Empire3 in the Central Coast10 in Sacramento and Central Valley Area  <\/p>\n<p>In September 2025, Starbucks announced that it was closing 627 stores in North America and Europe. That wave included 43 locations all over the Bay Area, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/starbucks-bay-area-closures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to KTVU<\/a>. In his letter, Grams said the company is aiming for faster service, and \u201cwarmer, more welcoming coffeehouses.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2022 2240 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa Most stores are operating regular business hours Saturday, then permanently closing. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-476553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}