{"id":463527,"date":"2010-03-23T13:04:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T17:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003617"},"modified":"2010-03-23T14:32:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T18:32:35","slug":"starbucks-promises-free-danish-doesnt-deliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/463527","title":{"rendered":"Starbucks Promises Free Danish, Doesn&#8217;t Deliver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/sbuckscup-thumb-333x500-38491.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, we wrote about &#8212; and even posted the coupon for &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/03\/buy-starbucks-coffee-get-free-pastry-this-morning.html\" >Starbucks Free Pastry Day<\/a>. And according to the coupon, &#8220;Pastries included in the offer are: Croissant, Muffins, Bagels, Breads, Pound Cakes, Scones, Rolles, Doughnuts, Coffee Cakes, Morning Bun and Cheese Danish.&#8221; But according to Consumerist reader Anthony, his local Starbucks weren&#8217;t being so generous.<\/p>\n<p>According to Anthony, he went to two separate Starbucks in his neighborhood and was told at both locations that Cheese Danish was considered a &#8220;premium&#8221; and they were only offering free coffee cake and doughnuts.<\/p>\n<p>Sez Anthony:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I zoomed in on the coupon on my iPhone and showed her where it says Cheese Danish and she said they aren&#8217;t honoring that. I didn&#8217;t want to make a fuss as it&#8217;s the morning and there were lines and I didn&#8217;t want to hold them up&#8230; Coincidentally other people also asked for something else and were turned down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the coupon it does state that &#8220;pastry selection vary by location,&#8221; but scanning through the comments from this morning&#8217;s post, it seems that most people were able to get what they wanted, pastry-wise. <\/p>\n<p>Did anyone else experience the same problem as Anthony today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, we wrote about &#8212; and even posted the coupon for &#8212; Starbucks Free Pastry Day. And according to the coupon, &#8220;Pastries included in the offer are: Croissant, Muffins, Bagels, Breads, Pound Cakes, Scones, Rolles, Doughnuts, Coffee Cakes, Morning Bun and Cheese Danish.&#8221; But according to Consumerist reader Anthony, his local Starbucks weren&#8217;t being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}