{"id":7935,"date":"2025-06-27T05:19:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T09:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=7935"},"modified":"2025-06-27T05:19:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T09:19:00","slug":"plastic-straws-return-to-korean-starbucks-locations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=7935","title":{"rendered":"Plastic Straws Return To Korean Starbucks Locations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>After removing plastic straws seven years ago, global coffee chain Starbucks is reintroducing them to its Korean locations.<\/p>\n<p>The coffee brand\u2019s about-face on plastic straws, according to the report,\u00a0comes after customer feedback regarding the paper versions of straws, as\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chosun.com\/english\/industry-en\/2025\/06\/25\/YVE6UNQPU5HAPGVZKIVQDUZELQ\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>\u00a0by the Korean news outlet Chosun Daily.<\/p>\n<p>According to Chosun Daily, Starbucks operates approximately 2,000 locations in South Korea and will roll out the new straws in about 200 stores, mainly near large hospitals and residential areas frequented by children and seniors.<\/p>\n<p><button id=\"expand-paywall-button\" class=\"expand-paywall-button\">Subscribe to Read More<\/button><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/plastic-straws-return-to-korean-starbucks-locations\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After removing plastic straws seven years ago, global coffee chain Starbucks is reintroducing them to its Korean locations. The coffee brand\u2019s about-face on plastic straws, according to the report,\u00a0comes after customer feedback regarding the paper versions of straws, as\u00a0reported\u00a0by the Korean news outlet Chosun Daily. According to Chosun Daily, Starbucks operates approximately 2,000 locations in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}