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New York Post
a few seconds ago
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- New York Post
Starbucks' Pumpkin Spice Latte is coming back early for fall — here's when you'll be able to get the popular drink
Fall is coming early to Starbucks. The coffee giant is bringing the beloved Pumpkin Spice Latte back to menus nearly a month before fall even begins. PSL fans will be able to get the iconic autumnal beverage starting Aug. 26, Starbucks announced. 4 Starbucks announced the Pumpkin Spice Latte will return August 26. Starbucks In addition, the fan-favorite Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew, Iced Pumpkin Cream Chai and Pecan Crunch Oatmilk Latte will return to the menu, as well as a new Pecan Cortado and new Italian Sausage Egg Bites. Starbucks' fall-flavored at-home coffees and creamers are now available online and in grocery stores nationwide, including Pumpkin Spice, Fall Blend, and Smoked Butterscotch, as well as Maple Pecan Latte Inspired Non-Dairy Creamer and Pumpkin Spice Latte Inspired Creamer. 4 A new Pecan Cortado will also be hitting menus. Starbucks In early August, ready-to-drink Pumpkin Spice Flavored Coffee will also return to grocery and convenience stores nationwide, available in Iced Espresso, Frappuccino Chilled Coffee Drink, and Cold Brew Concentrate. Even though we're far from fall, the timeline fits the range of dates when Starbucks has started PSL season in the past. Google Trends data showed that consumer interest in pumpkin spice started earlier this year, with searches increasing starting in mid-June, compared to last year when the uptick in searches began in mid-July. 4 Starbucks' fall-flavored at-home coffees and creamers are already available online and in grocery stores nationwide. Starbucks 4 In early August, ready-to-drink Pumpkin Spice Flavored Coffee will also be returning to grocery stores. Starbucks Starbucks first debuted the Pumpkin Spice Latte in 2003, sparking a national pumpkin craze. The coffee chain says the PSL is its most popular seasonal beverage, made with real pumpkin flavor, spices, Starbucks Signature Espresso and steamed milk. It's available hot, iced or blended.
CNN
32 minutes ago
- Business
- CNN
Starbucks reveals when it is bringing back the Pumpkin Spice Latte
Millions of people might be coping with extreme heat, but Starbucks is already getting ready for chilly fall temperatures with its most anticipated annual menu announcement. It could use the boost. The coffee chain revealed that its wildly popular Pumpkin Spice Latte beverage will return to menus on August 26 — four days later than last year's release date and the drink's latest arrival since 2022. However, this year's announcement marks the earliest date that Starbucks has provided a date for the Pumpkin Spice Latte's arrival. The PSL, as fans call it, is a best seller and could be a hit that Starbucks could use to help turn its business around. Starbucks has struggled over the past couple years with slumping sales and growing competition – to the point that the company brought in a new CEO who said Starbucks needed to 'fundamentally change our strategy.' Roughly 10% of Starbucks' overall sales come from seasonal staples, the chain revealed last year. Following the PSL's release last year, visits to Starbucks were more than 24% higher than a typical day and generated a 'sustained visit spike' that lasted several days after, according to a previous report, which tracks foot traffic. Typically, Starbucks announces the drink's arrival a few days before its release. But the company is giving a heads up a month earlier because Google searches for 'pumpkin spice' have started earlier this year, with an increase in interest beginning in mid-June rather than mid-July in 2024, it said. (Plus, the drink's arrival often leaks on Reddit long before Starbucks makes its official announcement). If fans can't wait, Starbucks said that its fall flavors are rolling out to grocery stores this week, including a PSL-inspired creamer and its autumn-themed as well as smoked butterscotch-flavored coffees. A canned PSL coffee drink will be released in early August. Former Chipotle leader Brian Niccol became Starbucks' CEO last September and has instituted a number of other changes. He's tweaked employee uniforms, overhauled the menu by cutting 30% of its offerings and is testing a new café design that encourages paying customers to linger. Since its 2003 launch, the PSL has taken on a life of its own, becoming a signal for fall both beloved and mocked and ushering in an era of pumpkin spice products, from trash bags to yogurt and even whiskey.
CNN
42 minutes ago
- Business
- CNN
Starbucks reveals when it is bringing back the Pumpkin Spice Latte
Millions of people might be coping with extreme heat, but Starbucks is already getting ready for chilly fall temperatures with its most anticipated annual menu announcement. It could use the boost. The coffee chain revealed that its wildly popular Pumpkin Spice Latte beverage will return to menus on August 26 — four days later than last year's release date and the drink's latest arrival since 2022. However, this year's announcement marks the earliest date that Starbucks has provided a date for the Pumpkin Spice Latte's arrival. The PSL, as fans call it, is a best seller and could be a hit that Starbucks could use to help turn its business around. Starbucks has struggled over the past couple years with slumping sales and growing competition – to the point that the company brought in a new CEO who said Starbucks needed to 'fundamentally change our strategy.' Roughly 10% of Starbucks' overall sales come from seasonal staples, the chain revealed last year. Following the PSL's release last year, visits to Starbucks were more than 24% higher than a typical day and generated a 'sustained visit spike' that lasted several days after, according to a previous report, which tracks foot traffic. Typically, Starbucks announces the drink's arrival a few days before its release. But the company is giving a heads up a month earlier because Google searches for 'pumpkin spice' have started earlier this year, with an increase in interest beginning in mid-June rather than mid-July in 2024, it said. (Plus, the drink's arrival often leaks on Reddit long before Starbucks makes its official announcement). If fans can't wait, Starbucks said that its fall flavors are rolling out to grocery stores this week, including a PSL-inspired creamer and its autumn-themed as well as smoked butterscotch-flavored coffees. A canned PSL coffee drink will be released in early August. Former Chipotle leader Brian Niccol became Starbucks' CEO last September and has instituted a number of other changes. He's tweaked employee uniforms, overhauled the menu by cutting 30% of its offerings and is testing a new café design that encourages paying customers to linger. Since its 2003 launch, the PSL has taken on a life of its own, becoming a signal for fall both beloved and mocked and ushering in an era of pumpkin spice products, from trash bags to yogurt and even whiskey.
an hour ago
- Business
A look at Starbucks and its Pumpkin Spice Latte, which returns to US menus Aug. 26
Want a little autumn in your August? You're in luck. Starbucks said Monday that its Pumpkin Spice Latte will return to store menus in the U.S. and Canada on Aug. 26. The Pumpkin Spice Latte is Starbucks' most popular seasonal beverage, with hundreds of millions sold since the espresso drink's 2003 launch. It's also produced a host of imitations; Dunkin' introduced pumpkin-flavored drinks in 2007, while McDonald's brought them to its menu in 2013. Here's a look at the Pumpkin Spice Latte by the numbers: — 100: Number of Starbucks stores that sold the Pumpkin Spice Latte during a test run in Vancouver and Washington in 2003. The following year it launched nationally. — 79: Number of markets where Starbucks sold the Pumpkin Spice Latte in 2024. The company has stores in 85 markets around the world. — $36.2 billion: Starbucks' net revenue in its 2024 fiscal year, which ended last September. Starbucks' net revenue was $4.1 billion in 2003, when the Pumpkin Spiace Latte first went on sale. — 33.8%: Increase in mentions of pumpkin spice on U.S. menus between the fall of 2014 and the fall of 2024, according to Technomic. — 4: Number of spices in McCormick's Pumpkin Pie Spice. They are cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and allspice. — 2022: The year Merriam-Webster added 'pumpkin spice' to the dictionary. Less common, it said, is the term 'pumpkin pie spice.' — 3: The Pumpkin Spice Latte was the third seasonal beverage introduced by Starbucks, after the Eggnog Latte and the Peppermint Mocha. — Sept. 8: Date the Pumpkin Spice Latte went on sale in 2015. The on-sale date has edged earlier since then. — 24%: Amount foot traffic rose at U.S. Starbucks last year on Aug. 22, the day the Pumpkin Spice Latte went on sale, according to The company compared traffic that Thursday to the previous eight Thursdays. — 45.5%: Amount foot traffic rose at Starbucks stores in North Dakota on Aug. 22, 2024, the most of any state, according to Foot traffic in Mississippi rose the least, at 4.8%. — 42,000: Number of members of the Leaf Rakers Society, a private Facebook group Starbucks created in 2018 to celebrate fall all year long.
USA Today
2 hours ago
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Pumpkin Spice Latte returns to Starbucks menu. Here's when you can get one
Pumpkin Spice Latte fans, your favorite time of year draws near: Starbucks is bringing back the popular autumnal drink nearly a month before fall officially begins. The Pumpkin Spice Latte will return to the premium coffee chain's menu on Aug. 26, the company said in a news release shared with USA TODAY. That date fits right within the range when Starbucks historically has opened the Pumpkin Spice Latte, or PSL, season in the past. First introduced in 2003, the return of the PSL has become an annual rite of late summer since Starbucks introduced the drink in 2003. Over the last two decades, customers have looked forward to the PSL's return, usually near the end of August. Liquid Death: Canned water brand expands into energy drinks: What to know about Sparkling Energy Also returning as part of Starbucks' fall menu are the Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew, Iced Pumpkin Cream Chai, and Pecan Crunch Oatmilk Latte. Newcomers to the menu include Italian Sausage Egg Bites and a Pecan Cortado. The Cortado, a new style of coffee drink Starbucks added earlier this year, is made with three ristretto shots of Blonde Espresso and steamed milk (ristretto espresso shots are smaller and more concentrated than traditional ones). A current option is the Brown Sugar Oatmilk Cortado. What is in the Pumpkin Spice Latte? The PSL, which Starbucks says is its most popular seasonal beverage – available hot, iced or blended – is made with real pumpkin flavor; pumpkin-related spices, including cinnamon, nutmeg and clove; Starbucks Signature Espresso and steamed milk. The drink is topped with whipped cream and pumpkin pie spices. Can't wait for the Pumpkin Spice Latte return? Go shopping The desire for pumpkin spice drinks and foods – and Starbucks' PSL itself – doesn't appear to be lessening. Searches on Google for "pumpkin spice" and "PSL" are slightly ahead of schedule compared to recent past years. More people attest they "love" pumpkin spice products, found an October 2024 survey of 1,000 U.S. consumers, with 90% of respondents saying they love pumpkin spice products, up from 85% in 2023, while those who "hate" the products fell from 15% to 10%. About one-fourth of the respondents declined to vote for "love" or "hate" pumpkin spice products. If you need that pumpkin spice flavor even sooner, limited-time flavors of Starbucks coffees and creamers, including Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte Inspired Creamer (in dairy and non-dairy options), are hitting stores and online retailers now. And in early August, ready-to-drink (RTD) beverages including Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Flavored Coffee (Iced Espresso and Frappuccino Chilled Coffee Drink) are returning to grocery stores, national retailers, convenience stores and gas stations for a limited time. When has the Pumpkin Spice Latte returned to Starbucks' menus in the past? Here's when Starbucks has launched its fall menu, which includes the PSL, in the past: Contributing: Greta Cross Mike Snider is a national trending news reporter for USA TODAY. You can follow him on Threads, Bluesky, X and email him at mikegsnider & @ & @mikesnider & msnider@ What's everyone talking about? Sign up for our trending newsletter to get the latest news of the day
