Starbucks Tests Video Chat Screens At Drive-Thrus

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • February 22, 2013
Compared to the fast food stalwarts that pioneered it, Starbucks drive-thrus are still kind of a new thing. The company's first foray with it began in 1994, seven years after Howard Schultz bought it from the original owners and twenty-three years...
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