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Starbucks 2024 Holiday Menu, Red Cups Launch Thursday – NBC Chicago

Vaseline November 14, 2024

Editor’s note: the menu for 2024 has been announced! Our latest story can be found here. Our original story continues below.

If it’s not quite the holiday spirit yet, it certainly will be on Thursday, thanks to the return of Starbucks’ famous red Christmas cups.

On November 7, Starbucks will debut its 2024 seasonal menu, including the coffee chain’s iconic red cups for this year.

This year’s theme is ‘Merrier Together’, which the coffee giant says covers its entire Christmas campaign, with a palette that combines Starbucks’ green and cranberry red with soft pastels inspired by fondant icing. Graphics are inspired by vintage Christmas ornaments, peppermint and other holiday favorites, Starbucks said.

In addition to the 2024 red cups, Starbucks will also launch festive drinkware and gifts on November 7, as well as its highly anticipated holiday menu, which typically includes favorite drinks and new holiday-themed drinks.

Some reports from the leaked menu say new items include a Salted Pecan Crunch Cold Brew and a Cran-Merry Orange Refresher.

The new holiday cups come as Starbucks recently announced it will soon eliminate extra charges for non-dairy milk and make efforts to create “fewer, better” menu offerings, hoping to bring consistency to every drink and improve the reduce the time it takes to make each drink because baristas have fewer recipes to remember.

“I committed to returning to Starbucks, focusing on what has always set Starbucks apart: a welcoming coffeehouse where people come together and where we serve the best coffee, handcrafted by our skilled baristas,” said CEO Brian Niccol of Starbucks said in a statement. .

Last month, Starbucks announced new “Wicked” themed drinks. The limited-time drinks are inspired by the film’s main characters, Glinda (the Good Witch of the South) and Elphaba (the Wicked Witch of the West).