Starbucks Coffee Company
Lobbying client
Starbucks is the Seattle-based multinational coffeehouse chain that operates roughly 41,000 retail locations worldwide, including stores across New York City. In Albany and New York City, Starbucks has registered as a lobbying client through Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies, Statewide Public Affairs and The Roffe Group of Robinson+Cole, filing on local legislation affecting restaurants' health and safety, retail and service-industry issues, and matters described in its filings as impacting Starbucks, along with a board or commission determination and a policy resolution. Its filings list Council Members Adrienne Adams and Lynn C. Schulman as lobbied officials, with about $284,000 in reported compensation across 27 filings from 2024 through 2026.
- Council members lobbied
- 2
- Filings (since 2024)
- 28
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $302,000
Lobbied these council members
- Lynn C. Schulman Council Member, District 29 (Queens)
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies, LLC Lobbyist firm
- Statewide Public Affairs, Inc. Lobbyist firm
- The Roffe Group of Robinson+Cole Lobbyist firm
Lobbied former members
Members who have since left their seat
- Adrienne Adams
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Determination of Board or Commission - determination
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - Issues impacting Starbucks
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - Legislation impacting the health and safety of restaurants
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - issues relating to retail business
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - issues relating to service industry
- Resolution - policy advocacy