Starbucks will give free coffee to healthcare workers in December

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Healthcare workers facing the covid-19 pandemic will receive a special gift this month from Starbucks.

The company will give away cups of coffee to health workers and first responders who have been working during the health crisis.

"It has been an extraordinarily difficult year, especially for frontline workers who serve our communities," Virginia Tenpenny, vice president of Global Social Impact at Starbucks, said in a statement.

"We want to show our deep appreciation to those who support and protect us every day with a small gesture of kindness and a cup of coffee."

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Until the end of December, a customer "who identifies as a front-line worker in the covid-19 pandemic" can walk into any Starbucks in the United States and receive free high-quality brewed coffee, hot or iced.

The measure also extends to other types of hospital personnel, such as janitors and security guards, mental health workers and active duty military.

The new promotion is an extension of a previous giveaway aimed at healthcare workers on the front lines of the fight against the covid-19 pandemic.

From late March through May, Starbucks pledged to give healthcare workers a free cup of coffee.

At the end of April, the chain said it had already given away more than 1 million mugs and claims that since then that number has doubled to more than 2 million.

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These gifts are the latest in a series of actions the coffee chain has launched during the pandemic, including a US $ 100,000 donation to the National Alliance on Mental Illness and a public promise to deliver care packages and gift cards to 50,000. front-line lifeguards.

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