Two Buckhead Starbucks Locations to Begin Selling Beer, WIne

Two Starbucks locations in Buckhead have been approved by the the Atlanta License Review Board to sell beer and wine.

According to the SaportaReport, the locations are at near the OK Cafe and near Walmart and I-75. The permits will be issued for on-premise consumption unless denied by Mayor Kasim Reed.

Starbucks has been testing the beer and wine market since 2009 and announced last December that it would expand the alcohol sales to five other cities to continue the market test. Alcoholic beverages will be sold starting at 2 p.m. in an effort to attract customers winding down from work. 

Beer sells for $5 and wine prices range from $7 to $9 at one of the first Starbucks locations to sell alcohol in Seattle, Wash. the Huffington Post reports.

Clarice Turner, Starbucks' senior vice president of U.S. operations, told Reuters earlier this year that the company had carefully chosen the 25 U.S. cafes that will be selling alcohol and that it has no plans to offer beer and wine in all of its 17,000 world-wide cafes.

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