It’s not uncommon to receive notifications from yourfavorite restaurant chainsaboutnew menu items,rewards, and enticing promotions.
Many notification recipients have also poked fun at Starbucks over the mistake.
“Hey @Starbucks!
Tell Sean K his alert was received,” oneTwitter user wrotejokingly.
“A bad day to be Sean K at Starbucks,” anothertweeted.
Some were even charmed by the cryptic yet amusing message.
“Hey @Starbucks , Sean K deserves a raise for making me chuckle,” one customertweeted.
Somevoiced concerns that a data breachor hackers were behind the strange notification.
“Earlier today, some customers received a test notification from the Starbucks app in error.
This was not because of a data breach,” a Starbucks spokesperson said in a statement toThe Verge.
It was not immediately clear just how many Starbucks customers received the message.
This is not the only recent instance where Starbucks has received some major attention on social media.
