Policy calls for no political or pop culture references on cups, but allows customers to use fake names. Baristas told Business Insider they feel stuck between corporate policy and the culture wars.

In September 2025, after the conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was fatally shot during a speaking engagement at a Utah university, a claim circulated online that baristas at the coffee chain ...

Starbucks says that customers can ask for political names on their drinks following a viral video in which a barista declined to write the name of assassinated conservative Charlie Kirk on a ...