{"id":2337,"date":"2009-07-17T10:02:46","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T14:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=2337"},"modified":"2009-07-17T10:02:46","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T14:02:46","slug":"alcohol-at-starbucks-after-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/07\/17\/alcohol-at-starbucks-after-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcohol at Starbucks after dark?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2338 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/07\/starbucks_logo.jpg\" alt=\"starbucks_logo\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/>With sales slumping at Starbucks locations across the country, the chain is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/industries\/food\/2009-07-16-starbucks-new-concept_N.htm\">looking for new ways <\/a>to bring loyal customers back in the afternoon hours.\u00a0 Starting with a flagship afternoon shop called &#8220;15th Ave. Coffee and Tea inspired by Starbucks&#8221; in the 15th Avenue neighborhood of Seattle, Starbucks will be introducing beer and wine (dine-in only) to the menu.\u00a0 Will their experiment work?\u00a0 School of Hospitality Assistant Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/people.bu.edu\/bhudson\/\">Brad Hudson<\/a> can offer his predictions for the future of Starbucks and whether their new after-hours idea will work.\u00a0 Hudson can be reached at bhudson@bu.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With sales slumping at Starbucks locations across the country, the chain is looking for new ways to bring loyal customers back in the afternoon hours.\u00a0 Starting with a flagship afternoon shop called &#8220;15th Ave. Coffee and Tea inspired by Starbucks&#8221; in the 15th Avenue neighborhood of Seattle, Starbucks will be introducing beer and wine (dine-in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1483],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2339,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/revisions\/2339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}