Lifestyle | Starbucks Starbucks Sells Juice, Preps New Health Chain Coffee mega-chain acquires Cali juice maker By Neal Colgrass Posted Nov 12, 2011 2:16 PM CST Copied Starbucks barista Alex Igarta hands a coffee drink to a customer from a drive-up window at a store near the company's corporate headquarters Monday, Jan. 26, 2009, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) Coffee might be healthy—but juice definitely is. And Starbucks wants you to have your vitamins. Having bought a California fruit and veggie juice maker for $30 million, the coffee mega-chain is adding "super-premium juice" to the menu. It also plans to launch a health and wellness chain by mid-next year. "It's a natural evolution toward being more than just a one-trick pony," says one analyst. (But don't joke about Starbucks—which fired a barista over an anti-Starbucks song.) Read These Next Pentagon reports first US casualties of attack. Khamenei didn't expect strike, especially in daylight. Baby born deep in Amazon rainforest is 'a source of hope.' Boebert defends leaking Hillary Clinton photo. Report an error