Starbucks Stars Gift Helps Buy 400 Sandwiches For Takoma Park Families

SILVER SPRING, MD — A donation by a local Starbucks employee helped to pay for 400 breakfast sandwiches that were donated to residents at Hampshire Tower Apartments in Takoma Park.

Starbucks employee Rob Grimes had accumulated 56,117 Stars through his company's customer rewards program.

On Thursday, Grimes donated the stars to Small Things Matter, a local charity that serves more than 1,000 food-insecure families in Takoma Park, Silver Spring, and Rockville. The donation was used to purchase the breakfast sandwiches, which were valued at more than $1,600.

"I want to thank Rob for his generosity in using his Starbucks stars to purchase food for families in need," said Council Member District 4 Kate Stewart, in a release. "I hope Starbucks uses this as an opportunity to make it easier for their customers to donate their stars. I also want to thank Small Things Matter for their continued work in our community and connecting individuals and businesses to ways they can help those in need."

To celebrate the donation, Grimes and Stewart were joined on Thursday by District Manager Eric Yeboah, Small Things Matter Executive Director Roxanne Yamashita, Store Manager Starbucks Westside Shady Grove Store #49693 Naz Movagher, and Hampshire Tower Apartments site coordinator Doris Duarte.