Starbucks will close 64 coffee shops across California in a 250-store North American pullback that company leaders say targets underperforming locations.
New York Post reporting shows the California closures stretch from Santa Rosa to San Diego and hit the Bay Area, Sacramento, the Central Coast, Los Angeles, Orange County, and the Inland Empire.
The cuts form part of a larger plan to close about 250 stores across the United States and Canada in the coming days. That equals roughly 1% of Starbucks’ North American footprint. The 64 California shops account for 2.1% of the company’s locations in the state.
CEO Brian Niccol’s “Back to Starbucks” strategy, which debuted in 2024, drives the move. The company is also taking a $300 million restructuring charge and launching a $1 billion restructuring and renovation effort.
Starbucks says it is on track to retrofit and uplift 1,500 existing North American coffeehouses by Sept. 30. The goal is better stores for customers and partners, not simply fewer doors.
Closures like these fit the same 250-store North American wave already underway under Niccol.
Chief Operating Officer Mike Grams told employees the company had identified locations where it did not believe it could consistently deliver the experience it wanted for customers and partners, or where it did not see a path to acceptable financial performance.
Starbucks has not confirmed the California addresses one by one. News outlets cross-checked a sampling against the Starbucks app and store locator. Those shops lacked operating hours scheduled beyond this week.
A Starbucks superfan and data tracker known as Winter compiled the fuller California list using the app. SFGate has described Winter as someone who has spent decades trying to visit every company-operated Starbucks in the world.
Starbucks told SFGate the message for customers is simple.
"Coffeehouses that are closing will have signage up this weekend to notify customers,"
The company plans to transfer workers to nearby stores. It remains unknown whether any employees will lose jobs in the shift.
Local fallout is already visible in places such as the long-running Burbank shop near Bob’s Big Boy, which sits on the same cut list.
Reported locations in the north include shops in Concord, Gilroy, Hercules, Lafayette, Millbrae, Mountain View, Oroville, and Roseville.
Sacramento alone appears multiple times: 3511 Truxel Road, 2648 Watt Avenue, 8341 Elk Grove Florin Road, 8240 Calvine Road, and 1901 J Street.
San Carlos shows two addresses. San Jose’s 1205 The Alameda is also flagged, matching other coverage of a San Jose Starbucks set to shut in the same pullback.
Santa Rosa has two entries, along with South San Francisco and Walnut Creek.
Central California entries include two Fresno shops on Shaw Avenue, plus Freedom, Merced, and Soquel.
San Luis Obispo shows three separate addresses: Court Street, Broad Street, and Madonna Road.
Los Angeles County and surrounding cities dominate the southern list. Multiple Los Angeles addresses appear, along with shops in Burbank, Calabasas, Century City, Chatsworth, North Hollywood, Panorama, Pasadena, Santa Monica, and Stevenson Ranch.
Orange County and Inland Empire sites include Aliso Viejo, Azusa, Cypress, Laguna Woods, Ontario, Rancho Santa Margarita, Rowland Heights, San Bernardino, Santa Ana, Temecula, Tustin, Upland, and Walnut.
San Diego County shows five addresses, from Adams Avenue to Clairemont Mesa Boulevard. Encinitas and Westlake Village are also listed.
That California concentration matches earlier reporting that Starbucks would shutter 64 California coffeehouses inside the same nationwide restructuring.
Beyond the doors that will go dark, Starbucks is pairing the cuts with heavy spending on the stores it keeps. The $1 billion restructuring and renovation push sits alongside the $300 million charge tied to the closings.
Niccol’s 2024 strategy frames both moves as one project: drop locations that cannot meet the standard, then upgrade the rest so customers get the experience the brand promises.
The same 250-store action has also been tracked alongside other company-wide changes, including coverage of how Starbucks shuttered 250 locations during a broader policy overhaul period.
For now, the practical test is local. Signage goes up this weekend. Hours already stop beyond this week at the flagged shops. Workers are slated to move to nearby stores rather than walk out the door empty-handed.
Starbucks still has not put its own name on each California address in a public confirmation. The app data, the missing hours, and the companywide 250-store plan are what put these 64 on the map.
When a national chain trims locations that cannot deliver or cannot pay their way, it is doing what any serious business owes its customers and its remaining workers: face the numbers and fix the product.