Seattle - Stan Rohrabach, Starbucks’ Vice-President for Diversity Outreach today announced the launching of a new product line designed to appeal to coffee-challenged minorities and undermarketed demographics. The first product in the new line is called “Mormon Blend®” and is already being test marketed in Salt Lake City.
“We’ve been wanting to increase sales to the very important Mormon market,” said Rohrabach. “Mormon families are huge, upwardly mobile and their church requires them to keep a year’s supply of food on hand at all times. On paper, we should be doing gangbusters business. Unfortunately, their religious beliefs also prohibit the consumption of beverages with caffeine. Well, that kind of cuts down on the sale of cappuccinos. But
“Mormon Blend®” is an ingenious mixture of macadamia nuts, soy beans, gristle and hummus carefully roasted and put through Starbucks’ patented quadruple filtration system. The end result is something that is very over-priced and looks like coffee but has none of the tastes, odors and other physical effects associated with actual coffee.”
Other products in the Starbucks development pipeline include KinderKoffee®, a reduced-caffeine product for the 5-8 year-old crowd; ACHTUNG!!!® a high caffeine coffee/jalapeno pepper mix designed with German ravers in mind; and MoFo Macchiato, a specialty drink developed in conjunction with Courvosier for young urban adults.