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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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xxxxx August 18, 2009 at 11:06 pm

bring back the orange cake, people with CD need to eat food with gluten
free food.

Jill Apel August 19, 2009 at 5:48 pm

Bring back the gluten free orange valencia muffin! It gave all celiac people a delicious item to eat with your coffee. Very few coffee shops offer gluten free items

Linda Fitzpatrick August 19, 2009 at 8:12 pm

Please bring back the GF lemond cake.It was nice to go to starbucks and be able to order a pastry to go with my coffee just as my friends always do.
Please bring back the pastry. Not only was it GF but it was so yummy.

Thanks

Janet Solomon August 20, 2009 at 2:55 pm

I don’t even drink coffee, but the Valencia Orange Cakes brought me into Starbucks. Once there, I also bought hot chocolate. Come on, think of the lives you’d be touching for people who are so desperate for a gluten free treat they’ll come and pay what you want for these things. (I used to buy a carton of four and take them home.) The demand for gluten-free items is only going to continue to get bigger and bigger as more people find out they have gluten-intolerance problems, and they’ll think kindly on your franchise.

Don Massi August 22, 2009 at 5:51 pm

I do not go much to Starbucks due to its pricey coffee but started to go because it offered the Valencia Orange cake that its competitors do not offer any GF products. I hope it can come back.

L. Sell August 24, 2009 at 4:42 pm

Please add more Gluten Free options to Starbucks. Not everyone wants to eat sugar laden cakes, maybe that is why it did not do well. Why isn’t there a GF lunch option? The perfect choice would have been the “protein plate” with the hard boiled egg, apple, and bagel??? why a bagel! add some cheese or GF crackers. Mary’s Gone Crackers are the perfect choice.

Jackie Blanton August 24, 2009 at 8:26 pm

I agree with all the above. Just think what a huge advance you have made with this little cake. One BIG suggestion, though: When it is there, or another wonderful (hopefully soft, as I can’t eat anything crispy) G-free food, please ANNOUNCE it up on the board or on the front door. Celiacs don’t usually look into the bakery window, because it’s they’re just looking at things they can’t have. I found the cakes just before they were discontinued. Then I bought whatever frozen ones they would sell me. I am so excited to find that there is a movement for your wonderful concoction.

Joyce Puccio August 27, 2009 at 12:47 pm

Please bring back something gf for my son. We love to go to starbucks.

Billi KIlgore August 30, 2009 at 11:01 am

please bring it back, it was the only think you had other then nuts that I could eat.

Dan September 9, 2009 at 5:12 pm

My wife loved that cake! Please bring it back.

Linda Burson September 11, 2009 at 11:54 pm

You can’t imagine what it is like to discover at age 59 that you can no longer eat Starbucks scones with your Starbucks Latte. Discovering your Orange GF cake was like Christmas everytime I had a Latte and the cake. Please bring it back.

Krystal Ahders September 12, 2009 at 11:24 pm

Please bring back the ORANGE GF CAKE! Thank you.

Allison Hanson September 17, 2009 at 9:15 pm

Bring back our cake!

Rhonda September 25, 2009 at 7:11 pm

Please bring back our cakes! And PLEASE market them so they will have a chance! Thank you!

Landa September 30, 2009 at 8:16 pm

Please bring back the valencia cake and other gluten free items too!

Linda Francisco October 24, 2009 at 11:25 pm

Make it come back!

Julie Goodin October 25, 2009 at 1:51 am

Please bring back the gluten free cake! Or offer a gluten free coffee cake or cinnamon roll. I miss eating things like that soooo much! My son, my father and me are all celiacs. That’s 3 people who’d be in Starbucks more often!

Sonia November 17, 2009 at 11:00 pm

Our nine year old has Celiac and always felt left out when we’d go to Starbucks. We were so excited when we saw the gluten-free orange cake. We all thought it was delicious. Sadly, iIt was gone the next time we went in. Please bring in back!

Diane Robinson November 18, 2009 at 5:40 pm

As the parent of a young adult with Celicac’s, i hope you will continue with your gluten free pastry and add others as well. It is already a challenge for my daughter to enjoy pastries at all, and when her favorite coffee shop carried a pastry she could have that was so delicious, she was thrilled!! Please bring back your Valencia Orange Cake in time for the holidays!

Heather Mc November 18, 2009 at 8:18 pm

Please bring it back!! It’s rare to find treats like that anywhere. Then to have you take it away and give us nuts and berries? I want to be able to have a treat like everyone else. Bring it back!!

Cindy Ramer November 18, 2009 at 9:20 pm

Please bring the Gluten free Cake back to Starbucks!.. Love your coffee. It was nice to be able to sit and enjoy coffee AND a treat with my husband. Thank you for considering our request to not be left out!

Jan November 19, 2009 at 10:38 am

Please, please, please bring back the gluten free orange valencia cupcakes. It was nice to be on vacation and have a treat with everyone else. I had a hard time finding them in my area, so I had to go to Atlanta, and some of the stores there did’nt have them either. I had to drive around to find them, so I would buy all they had and put them in my freezer. Would love to have them again.

Carole Carey November 22, 2009 at 12:59 am

Yes,… it is very hard to find something to eat when you are traveling.
Starbucks was a sure thing for a treat, and the Orange Valencia Cupcakes.
I am so disappointed. There are more gluten free customers out there than you think. I find most of my other foods at “Whole Foods” grocery store.
I know that they are perfecting more and more G.F. foods, and I ask just about everywhere I go. I am anxious to receive the “Gluten-Free guide to Restaurants” that I just ordered here on Triumph Dining. I know that your Starbucks stores will be in there, so you have to bring them back.
It was so nice to go into a Starbucks and have a latte and the Orange cupcakes. Another customer asking,..”PLEASE BRING THEM BACK.”
Thank you, Starbucks. I know that you will reconsider. Look at how many more customers you will have……

Terra November 24, 2009 at 10:46 pm

I just started on a gluten free diet and LOVE Starbucks so it would be really nice to have a special treat with my coffee. Please bring it back.

Krystle Champagne November 30, 2009 at 6:23 pm

I’m allergic to Gluten but love desserts! It’s very difficult to walk into a Starbucks and be tempted by all the Gluten FILLED desserts and fight the temptation not to eat them. It was nice to be able to have something sweet at starbucks without hurting my body doing it. Please remember that people who can’t eat wheat or gluten love dessert just like everybody else. Bring back the gluten-free valencia orange cake!

Ernie Mele December 4, 2009 at 11:37 am

Bring back the Orange cake! P-L-E-A-S-E!!

Steve December 4, 2009 at 1:50 pm

I never did find your GF orange cakes at our Corvallis, Or Starbucks. I would definitely frequent Starbucks way more often if they had GF treats. Please bring them back to market.

John Ham December 6, 2009 at 9:58 pm

Please bring back the wonderful Valencia Orange Cake! We Celiac Disease sufferers need this!

Carol Queen December 9, 2009 at 12:11 am

Not only did they dump te cake — they wouldn’t tell me where I could order it so I could buy my own stash.

S’bucks, if you get a better gluten-free option, make it dairy-free too. And NOT a dang nutra-bar. A PASTRY, which is what we like to eat with our coffee.

L. Smith December 14, 2009 at 12:27 pm

PLEASE BRING ANY GF PRODUCTS BACK THAT YOU MAY HAVE.

Silvia January 6, 2010 at 12:29 am

Dear Starbucks,
Please bring back the Orange Valencia cake. Being able to order a pastry from your menu gives us Celiac sufferers a sense of normalcy not often experienced at a cafe or restaurant.

Jessica January 7, 2010 at 11:47 am

Please bring back the GF Orange Valencia cake and look for additional GF options – as a daily Starbucks goer, I would greatly appreciate it!

Rebecca January 12, 2010 at 8:30 am

Please bring back the cake, and other GF options too! I can’t look at the bakery case when I go to Starbucks because it just reminds me of what I’m missing. It would be awesome to be able to have a treat now and then.

Amanda January 12, 2010 at 11:38 am

Bring back the cake! I don’t go there as much now since I don’t have a pastry I can get…you are losing revenue by cutting this, especially if Dunkin’s starts making something GF!

Susan January 12, 2010 at 5:28 pm

Our area Starbucks never even got the cake. Then after a few months, I was told they were discontinuing it because of poor sales! I certainly would have purchased it, and now go elsewhere for a GF treat. That means Starbucks loses sales from me, hubby and 3 kids. Between the loss of GF and no bold drip coffee after 2 pm, and no decaf after 11 am (unless you ask for it, and then put up with the frowning face of the barista….), I’ve become very unhappy with Starbucks.

Stephanie January 13, 2010 at 9:20 pm

Please bring back the cake! People with food allergies should be able to eat too. It’s really awkward to sit at a table and watch everyone else eat…

CL January 14, 2010 at 7:48 pm

Please bring back the gluten free orange cake, and maybe consider adding some other gluten free foods? Gluten free chocolate brownies would be nice….I used to go to Starbucks all the time, but I found out I must avoid gluten and now it’s tough to go anywhere. Not only do restaurants and coffee houses lose MY business, but they also lose that of my FIVE family members who won’t go out without me!

paula January 18, 2010 at 4:54 pm

please bring back gluten free at starbucks!

Dawn Morris January 19, 2010 at 3:54 pm

Please bring back the Gluten Free Orange Valencia cake as well as any other Gluten Free options you are able to provide.

K January 19, 2010 at 4:22 pm

Please bring this product back.

thanks

linda Esposito January 28, 2010 at 11:04 am

Celiac sufferers need options- please bring it back!!

lydia gartland January 28, 2010 at 11:47 am

my husband goes to starbucks on a regular basis and I have stopped joining him after you took away the gluten free offerings. please reconsider so I can enjoy your establishment.

PAM VARNADOE January 28, 2010 at 12:11 pm

I was so excited to hear of the new pastry. I left in the middle of work to my nearest starbucks, to find out it had been discontinued. Very disappointed!

DOM RUGGERIO January 28, 2010 at 12:44 pm

The Orange Valencia cake was absolutely great. I have been diagnosed since 1988 and I must say until recently most of the GF stuff tasted like paper and styrafoam. I was ordering at least one cake item a day and used it as my breakfast item. Too bad it’s gone. Keeping in a cooler would enhance shelf life and a 20 sec micro-shot would take the chill off. Selecting good tasty items in the GF arena takes some special taste buds. I prepare GF menues for restaurants and it takes work!

Merelyn Stewart January 28, 2010 at 1:59 pm

I loved the Orange cakes, they were the best ever and great with a cup of tea. PLEASE bring them back.
Merelyn Stewart

Liane January 28, 2010 at 6:11 pm

Please bring back the Orange Valencia Cake. It’s the only reason I go to Starbucks. Otherwise I’ll be at Peet’s.

Jean Petani January 29, 2010 at 10:44 pm

I was very interested in trying when I heard about this fantastic Gluten Free Orange Valencia cake and Gluten Free Lemond Cake. I went in search to many Starbucks only to be disappointed that Valencia cake and Gluten Free Lemond Cake were discontinued. I contacted the corporate office for Starbucks. It was stated to me as the following comment: They were not satisfied with the calories and texture/quality and shelf-life. Starbucks has a high standard for all there products. They mentioned that with the low sales on this product this is what caused the discontinuation of the product among other things. Starbucks Marketing group needs to get out there together and brain storm idea’s with the Celiac Community to have blogs and commercials getting the word out . I guarantee this would boost Starbucks sales since Gluten Free is the healthy lifestyle of eating. I’m hoping they decide to change their minds to keep the Celiac community customer happy while they are out with family and friends. If everyone is stating they want them to be back on the market and available at all locations nationwide. I would hope that Starbucks would take this into deep consideration. Starbucks might be giving other competitors the edge in the market place since they made this poor decision regarding the discontinued products. They got into the market with it at the right time now they need to figure out how they are going to get back in the race. Hopefully we will be getting wonderful news soon that they have decided to bring back what we are all craving for the Gluten Free Orange Valencia and Gluten Free Lemond Cake. There are so many pastry’s we would love to have that are Gluten-Free like Cinnamon Rolls, Cheese Danish, Pound cake and various cheesecake’s with gluten-free crust. We will just have to wait and see if they will reconsider there decision on the discontinued product. Here’s to the Celiac Community and those whom choose to eat healthy gluten-free lifestyle.

Tonya January 30, 2010 at 3:23 pm

Dessert is the thing I miss most about my new gluten-free lifestyle. PLEASE bring back the ability for us to enjoy a snack with our coffee!!!

Katie February 2, 2010 at 11:10 pm

Please bring it back! It would make our lives easier!

JoAnn February 4, 2010 at 2:29 pm

Please add my name to the petition to have Starbucks bring back a gluten free pastry offering at all of their locations nationwide. Thank you.

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