Dear Starbucks,
I am writing to request that you bring back the gluten-free Valencia Orange Cake. It’s so hard to find good, safe gluten-free options. Having a gluten-free treat at Starbucks was an enormous win for me personally, and the community at large. Starbucks is known for its community involvement, and having the gluten-free Valencia Orange Cake really hammered that home for the gluten-free community. It’s sad to see the cake disappear such a short time later, without any real explanation.
We thank you for your kind consideration.
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We’ve put this petition together to convince Starbucks to bring the Valencia Orange Cake back. We’re going to collect 5,000 signatures and present the petition to Starbucks.
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My kids love these cakes. They will be so upset if they have to go back to getting nothing when we all go to Starbucks. Please keep them.
I was thrilled when I learned about the GF cake at Starbucks. At last I had a snack to eat with my iced tea. Not only was this little orange cake free of gluten, it has no soy or milk either – I also can’t have these. It was perfect. Not only that, it tasted great.
Living GF is all about being prepared, but there are times when you’re out shopping and are caught up short. That’s when dropping by Starbucks is a god-send. And there are times when you want to meet friends for coffee. Where better to go than Starbucks. It’s been tough to sit and watch while the friends gobble down pumpkin loaf or scones, and the Valencia Orange Cake promised a great solution. But I barely got to try one before they disappeared from the bakery case.
I hope you will reconsider your decision and bring them back. Thank you.
Please bring this GF cake back to Starbucks, because my younger
Sister Amy has trouble living a normal life. She feels afraid to go in public sometimes because of the health problems she suffers with. By offering this cake at Starbuck gives her an other like her more freedems people deserve
We need to be able to enjoy treats with friends!
We have many coffee shops in our city. I had started choosing Starbucks because you offered a glueten-free choice among your snacks.
It great to have something to snack on with coffee! Please bring it back!
I just heard about Starbuck’s Orange GF cake, but haven’t even had a chance to buy one for my daughter yet. I can’t believe it’s discontinued already. Please bring it back.
Please,please bring back that snack for all the people who would visit Starbuck’s and can’t eat Gluten, like my son’s girlfriend
why get rid of a good thing? Gluten free people need to eat too.
Please bring back the gluten free cake. Our whole family eats gluten free because of Celiac Disease. Your cake was wonderful. It was nice to know my kids could feel somewhat normal to be able to buy a cake from a normal coffee shop.
Michele Miller
PLEASE bring it back!
Please bring the orange cakes back, is a nice glutten free snack.
Valencia was a terrific offering
I just discovered your GF cake. Please don’t take it out of your store. It is a great place to take a friend and actually have a treat to eat!!
It was wonderful to be able to get a coffee and snack in the same place.
I don’t care if it’s even the same cake.. I would just like a gluten free option. To be able to eat something when I get my coffee would be such a nice option.. because there are other coffee shops that DO offer the option.
It’s nice to have a chain like Starbucks that supports those w. Gluten intolerances. I think it would be a huge loss for Starbucks’ customer support to discontinue having a GF option.
Few if any of the big coffee places i.e. Dunkin Donuts, Honey Dew etc sell Gluten Free products. Differentiate yourself – let the gluten free patrons know how important they are to you. 1 in 133 people have Celiac Disease – don’t alienate them.
It sure is nice that Starbucks did offer the gluten free Valencia orange cupcake. It gave me a reason to go there with my family. We would also order drinks. The funny thing is we have a Starbucks right around the block from my place. We never really went there before until I heard from the gluten free support group that they offered the Valencia gluten free cake. I do enjoy that cake very much. I really can’t believe that they are not going to offer a gluten free option now. What a bummer!! I guess my family and I will not be going there any more. We tend to only go to places that can accommodate me as well. It is not easy for folks that don’t have many options.
Please reconsider your decision to remove the gluten-free cake. thank you!
Maybe you didn’t sell enough in a given day. If this is the problem, please freeze the gluten-free dessert and thaw it when a customer requests one. You don’t know how happy you made us, so that when we come to Starbucks with our friends, we can eat something, too! Please bring them back or something else that is gluten-free. Thank you.
Please keep the Valencia Orange Cake – there are many of us that do not have a gluten problem that have recently been introduced to it – it is a winner!
Keep your gluten free cake on your menu…my wife enjoyed your gluten free orange cake for the first time recently and would really miss it…many others are gluten intolerant and need another option.
Regards,
Dr. David Monroe
a loyal Starbucks customer
Definitely keep your gluten free cake on Starbucks menu…my wife has a gluten intolerance and she just enjoyed your orange cake for the first time recently. Please do not remove it from your menu.
Regards,
Dr. David Monroe
A loyal Starbucks customer
Please bring back this product which all on a gluten free lifestyle can enjoy!
Please don’t torture the gluten free community.
My daughter was diagnosed with Celiac almost two years ago. As a wife and mother of two young children, it is a constant challenge to prepare or purchase food that she and her family can enjoy together. She has had your Valencia Orange Cake and was very disappointed to find out you were discontinuing this product. She and her family are loyal customers of Starbucks. Please consider offering this gluten free product again.
Please leave your gluten free cake in your stores! My 13 year old son has such limited choices when he goes out with our family or friends and we always knew Starbucks had something for him. It was an easy stop for all of us as a family-instead of Dunkin Donuts which is more plentiful to find. We would go out of our way to go to Starbucks, not Dunkin Donuts, with the cake gone, we will bring something from home for my son and go to Dunkin Donuts for the rest of the family. Although you might think the gluten free market is small……people with gluten sensitivites have friends and family. We tend to travel together. Please bring it back!
I never even had the chance to try it, but will it it’s made available again. It would be nice to a have a snack with my coffee.
Please be sensitive to the needs of people with celiac disease!
Knowing that there was a gluten-free option at Starbucks would make it much more likely that I would stop into one occasionally.
Starbucks has always been a good corporate citizen. Offering gluten-free products is just another way of remaining sensitive to needs of others.
I starting going back to Starbucks just because I knew I could enjoy a GF pastry with my coffee and family!!! Please don’t take them away! I felt SO limited before….I was extemely happy to discover there was actually something in there for me to enjoy too.
Have not even tried the GF Orange Cake yet, I want to,
Pls bring it back, Now my two grandchildren are eating GF also plus dairy free so I would take them also, Anytime a major company helps us we are greatfull.
My husband and I regularly drink your coffee and were delighted that you added a gluten free cake. We only got to try it once because they didn’t carry it at several local stores until only recently. It was never on the menu or in the display case… we had to ask if they had it. Only once did they say “yes” and it was a great cake. Please give it (or another gluten free cake) a real chance… promote it, put it on the menu, advertise in gluten free magazines and Websites. Given a real chance, I’m sure that you’ll be thrilled to find out how loyal gluten free customers are!!
I was traveling recently and was happy to know that while eating in airports and visiting places that I was not familiar with that I was able to not only drink beverages at Starbucks but also enjoy one of your GF muffins (often buying 2). I would love to see a small line of options for those of us who are GF. 1 out of 133 is nothing to laugh about.
I was so happy to know that Starbuck was “cutting edge” and now I am sad to see that you may not be;(
PLEASE listen to the customers and keep yummy gluten free items on the menu. It is so hard to find good products, but there are so many fans of this cake. I’ll order a case!! Just bring it back please.
The Starbucks folks should consider what it is like for a Mom to go in for a cup of coffee and have her small children look longingly at all the treats they could not have. For this reason, I stopped going to Starbucks. The addition of GF products will make me return.
What a wonderful snack. It was great to have a snack while my non-gluten intolerant friends munched on the other wonderful pastries. Such a shame to have had such a short life…Please bring it back or an alternative. Thank You!
My nephew has Celiacs and it’s a struggle to find places that eveyone can enjoy when we go out. Please keep your GF items so our family can have yet another choice to enjoy and not limit us. Thank you.
Why would you take away the only gluten free product?? It is hard to find places that carry these items, and there are so many people who are on gluten free diets. Please reconsider!!
These muffins were a huge draw for me to patronize Starbucks. I would have bought more, but not all Starbucks carried the muffins.
Please offer your gluten free cakes and help children and adults alike so that they may be able to have a delicious treat. Bring back your gluten free cakes Starbucks.
The orange cakes were so good you couldn’t tell they were gluten free! Please bring them back!
Our entire family is gluten intolerent and it is extremely hard to take go out to eat. When learning that Starbucks offered a gluten free dessert, we were so excited. Please bring it back or something else to replace it. Finally, I was able to take my boys out for a special treat other than home.
Please bring back a gluten free dessert so I can continue to patronize Starbucks.
GF cake taken off probably because it doesn’t sell like “hotcakes”. But for those of us who have Celiac it’s a nice treat. Many of us do not frequent take outs because of the lack of GF products. Starbucks capitilize of a growing market.
Please bring the cake back. My daughter and I both have celiac and we would like to continue to have this option.
In support of those who can only eat GF fooods.
We need more gluten-free products at restaurants and eating places. Our choices are so limited. Please bring back the orange cake !
I loved this cake, please bring it back!
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