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 The outage was caused by a failure during a daily system refresh,
the world's biggest coffee chain said in a statement on its website
on Friday.
"The point of sale register outage has been resolved and all
Starbucks stores in the U.S. and Canada are expected to open for
business as usual on Saturday," a statement on the company's website
said.
"We apologize to our customers for this inconvenience."
Starbucks said the outage also affected its Evolution Fresh and
Teavana stores, which the company said would also open as scheduled
on Saturday.
The company said some of its stores had closed early due to the
malfunction.
CNBC reported that some store managers were handing out free drinks
since they could not accept payment, while other stores were closed
entirely. (http://cnb.cx/1bCejFr)
A number of social media users also reported that the computers in
the stores of the Seattle-based company were down.
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On Thursday, the company said sales at shops open at least 13 months
were up 7 percent in the Americas region for the second quarter
ended March 29.
(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco, and Narottam Medhora
and Manya Venkatesh in Bengaluru; Editing by Lisa Shumaker and David
Gregorio)
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