Starbucks Workers Get Pay Bump, New Coffee, Tattoo Leeway
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Starbucks Corp. unveiled a spate of new perks for its workers yesterday, including higher starting pay and first crack at coffee from the company’s Costa Rican test farm as well as looser rules governing tattoos.
The world’s biggest coffee-shop chain is giving the first harvest from Hacienda Alsacia, the Costa Rican farm it bought last year, to its workers, Haley Drage, a spokeswoman for Seattle-based Starbucks, said in an e-mail. The plantation’s first year yielded about 300,000 pounds of beans, less than 0.1 percent of the coffee Starbucks purchased in its fiscal 2013.