Caribou Coffee Introduces Chocolate Drinks

Just in time for the cooler weather, Caribou Coffee is introducing a new line of chocolate coffee drinks, made with all-natural Guittard chocolate!

Beginning November 12, guests at the Caribou Coffeehouses can have their mochas, chocolate lattes, hot chocolates, specialty beverages and cold beverages made with either white, milk or dark Guittard chocolate at all Caribou Coffee locations nationwide. Caribou Coffee team members will steam real pieces of premium chocolate into milk to make the handcrafted hot beverages such as mochas, chocolate lattes and hot chocolates.

This reformulation marks a major difference from other coffeehouse operators because almost all coffeehouses, including the major coffeehouse chains, use reconstituted chocolate syrup or processed powder to create their hot and cold chocolate beverages. The three premium chocolates, created exclusively for Caribou Coffee, are all-natural, kosher and gluten-free, and none contain more than six ingredients.

In addition to using the new chocolates in all stores, Caribou Coffee will offer tins of the drinking chocolate pieces in all three flavors at store locations and on cariboucoffee.com. The 12-oz. tins, which sell for $9.99 each, include step-by-step instructions for hand-melting chocolate pieces into milk or soy milk to create mochas or hot chocolates at home.

To celebrate the launch of the new chocolate beverages, on Friday, November 27 (“Black Friday”) each store will feature free samples of the new chocolate in addition to buy-one-get-one mochas and hot chocolates!

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