GettySeattle-based Coffee giant Starbucks is looking to grow its technological reach through a significant partnership with Microsoft. Starbucks first announced its bean-to-cup initiative in a 2018 pilot, stating that it would work with farmers in Costa Rica, Colombia, and Rwanda to pilot a blockchain-based coffee-tracking system. The next step for this initiative, through the help of Microsoft, is to allow for things like predictive drive-thru ordering, connecting of coffee-making machines, and a further boost to the bean-to-cup tacking. He applauded the collaboration between Starbucks’ software engineers and its business side citing Starbucks as one of many examples of a consistent theme: increased hiring of software engineers at companies outside the industry that are embracing high tech solutions. Starbucks is looking to Microsoft to help with connecting their coffee-makers across its 30,000 stores.

Source: Forbes May 07, 2019 11:26 UTC