Starbucks to test automated coffee machine

December 12, 2007

CNN Money: Starbucks Corp. and Coinstar Inc.have teamed up to test an automated coffee machine under the Starbucks Seattle's Best Coffee label, according to a Coinstar representative.

A description of a prototype machine, along with a picture, is included in a report published Dec. 12, 2007, byEric Wold,an analyst for Merriman Curhan Ford.