Starbucks are offering 50% off food in over 350 UK branches

Although well-known for its frappuccino and range of coffee, Starbucks also have a wide selection of food and they have just announced they will be offering 50% off it in the last hour of trading.

In a statement on the company's website they said the new initiative is designed to 'address the issue of food waste in the retail industry, as well as the issue of global hunger'.

At 350 company owned branches in the UK, managers will now reduce all food that would normally be thrown away to 50% off at the end of the day. The entire sale of each reduced item will in turn be donated to Action Against Hunger, a leading humanitarian organisation.

The national roll-out of this scheme follows a successful trial at 16 Starbucks stores in Manchester earlier in the year, which raised £1,500 in an 11-week period.

Speaking about the initiative Simon Redfern, head of communications for Starbucks Europe said, “Tackling a challenge like food waste is not an easy one, but we’re proud to have developed a programme which will deliver for the long term.

"Off the back of the success of our Manchester trial, we’re pleased to roll out this programme to the rest of our company owned British stores, and will be working with our franchise partners to see where else this programme could work as well."

While this discount will only be available on food and in the last hour of each day, Starbucks' opening hours vary from site to site, so if you fancy a half-price snack you'll need to double check your local opening hours on their website. Starbucks have released a list of all branches that are taking part, which can be found here.

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