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Starbucks, Caribou Coffee launch summer LTOs

May 2, 2019

It's already summer at Starbucks and Caribou Coffee as the chains have launched their summer menus. Starbucks brought back three of its limited-time Frappuccino flavors this week and created a few other LTOs, while Caribou's LTOs included additions to its nitro, cold press and bubble tea lineups.

The Starbucks returning Frappuccino options, according to a company press release, include the:

• S'mores Frappuccino, which combines marshmallow whipped cream and milk chocolate sauce along with a blend of coffee, milk and ice. It's finished off with more whipped cream and a graham cracker crumble.
• Mocha Cookie Crumble Frappuccino, made with mocha sauce and Frappuccino chips blended with coffee, milk and ice layered on top of whipped cream and chocolate cookie crumble and finished off with whipped cream and chocolate cookie crumbles.
• Caramel Ribbon Crunch Frappuccino, a dark caramel sauce blended with coffee, milk and ice on top of whipped cream and dark caramel sauce then topped with another layer of dark caramel sauce, whipped cream, caramel drizzle  and crunchy caramel sugar topping.

  Starbucks has created the Dragon Drink as a summer LTO.

Making its debut to the Starbucks menu are the:

• Dragon Drink, made with Mango Dragonfruit Refreshers combined with coconut milk.
• Mango Dragonfruit Starbucks, a combination of real fruit juice with sweet mango and Dragonfruit flavors that is hand-shaken with ice and diced Dragonfruit.

Lunch LTOs include:

• Crispy Grilled Cheese, a three-cheese blend melted between buttery, toasted sourdough bread.

• Baja Black Bean Veggie Wrap, which has black beans, salsa slaw and mixed veggies in a tortilla wrap, with more than a half cup of vegetables.

Caribou Coffee summer menu options include the:

• Cold Press Shandy, which combines cold-pressed coffee and lemonade.

• Cold Press Mule, cold-pressed iced coffee, ginger ale and stone fruit flavor.

• Coconut Mango Black Tea, featuring mango black tea with coconut flavor served over ice and bubbles.

• Raspberry Green Tea, a tropical bubble green tea with raspberry flavor and milk served over ice and bubbles.

• Matcha Tea Cooler with Bubbles, which blends Matcha powder, vanilla, half & half and Caribou’s shake mix blended served over the chewy coconut jellies, lightly flavored with coffee.

• Nitro Black, cold-pressed coffee infused with nitrogen.

• Draft Mocha Nitro, nitro cold-pressed coffee combined with milk and premium chocolate.