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Starbucks food safety problems occur frequently! Privately change labels using expired ingredients, trash cans, coffee machines, shared towels supervisor & quot; words and deeds & Quotwitter!

Published: 2025-12-25 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2025/12/25, In 1999, Starbucks opened its first store in mainland China at the Beijing International Trade Center. Since then, Starbucks has flourished in China at a blowout rate. As a leading brand in China's coffee market, Starbucks has recently been exposed that some stores have food safety problems, which is eye-popping. It is understood that

In 1999, Starbucks opened its first store in mainland China at the Beijing International Trade Center. Since then, Starbucks has flourished in China at a blowout rate. As a leading brand in China's coffee market, Starbucks has recently been exposed that some stores have food safety problems, which is eye-popping.

It is understood that in October, a person familiar with the matter reported to the Beijing News that some Starbucks stores had problems such as tampering with the shelf life of beverage raw materials and using expired raw materials. in order to verify this situation, from the end of October to the middle of November this year, Beijing News reporters applied to enter two Starbucks stores: Starbucks Changxing Building Store and Starbucks Wuxi Zhenze Road Store to conduct undercover interviews.

Unexpectedly, undercover Starbucks: coffee ingredients continue to be used after expiration, tampering with shelf life, scrapped cakes and other problems emerge one after another, Starbucks frequently touches the red line of food safety.

At present, the topic # Starbucks privately changing ingredient labels using out-of-date ingredients has made it to the top search list of Weibo. And the video provided by the Beijing News can find the quadruple food safety problems in some Starbucks stores in Wuxi.

Expired ingredients continue to be used

At Starbucks, chocolate is one of the usual raw materials for drinks in stores. Starbucks "product Kaifeng shelf life summary" indicates that the chocolate liquid has a shelf life of 48 hours under refrigerated conditions.

On the morning of October 31, the reporter found that a bucket of chocolate liquid stored in the refrigerator could be used before 8 o'clock on October 31. When the barrel of chocolate liquid passed its expiration date, Starbucks Zhenze Road clerk did not scrap it in accordance with the regulations and insisted on using expired chocolate solution to make coffee drinks for customers. There is more than one out-of-date ingredient that day, and so is matcha.

On the afternoon of November 7, Starbucks Zhenze Road store continued to expire the phenomenon of peach meat and cream.

Tear up the label of expired raw materials

After an in-depth understanding, the reporter found that the use of expired ingredients in Starbucks in Wuxi has become a routine operation. Because it is necessary to cover up the use of expired ingredients, the shelf life labels of some ingredients are often tampered with at will, and even some ingredients do not have a warranty label at all.

When the reporter asked why, the clerk replied, "avoid scrapping food materials, reduce expenses, and consider profit margins."

Scrapped cakes will be put on the shelves again.

Do you think there's only something wrong with the drink? Don't forget that Starbucks also has more than 20 kinds of pastries such as sandwiches, bread, cakes and so on. But in fact, these pastries are not processed in the store, but the finished products are distributed by the manufacturers. The cakes after Kaifeng should be scrapped on the same day, but Starbucks Changxing Building in Wuxi will continue to sell overnight cakes and instruct the clerk to "buy the rest of yesterday before buying the new ones today."

The explanation given by the store is: "the master and the apprentice have been like this from generation to generation, and they are indifferent to the rules."

Serious health problems to deal with health inspection

The reporter revealed that during a cleaning, the supervisor told the reporter to wipe the trash can with a special towel for the bar and asked the reporter to put the towel back after asking for a simple cleaning. After that, the reporter found that other shop assistants were still wiping the bar and coffee machine with the towel that had wiped the trash can.

In this regard, netizens said, "Oh. "

22 years, say whether it is long, say whether it is short. In 22 years, Starbucks has opened 5400 stores in more than 200 cities in mainland China and employs nearly 60000 people. Starbucks knows that food safety is the cornerstone of everything, so it also promises Chinese consumers a "gold standard" for food safety on its official website, but food safety problems emerge one after another.

Some Starbucks stores have been punished for food problems, according to App. Starbucks Coffee (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. Yantian Yihaicheng second branch was warned for food violations; Hubei Starbucks Coffee Co., Ltd. Changde Wanda branch was fined for operating expired food.

In response to the Wuxi Starbucks report, Starbucks China's official Weibo also immediately spoke out, expressing Starbucks' zero tolerance for food safety issues. Starbucks has closed its stores and welcomes continued social and media monitoring.

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