Free Coffee For Front-Line Workers At Starbucks In Reston

RESTON, VA — Front-line workers can get free coffee throughout December from Starbucks locations throughout the United States, including the nine in Reston.

Starbucks has locations in Reston at: 1908 Reston Metro Plaza; 11610-A Plaza America Drive; 11170 South Lakes Drive; 11951 Freedom Drive; 1857 Fountain Drive; 1444 North Point Village Center; 2304 Hunters Woods Plaza; 12197 Sunset Hills Road; and 12130 Sunset Hills Road.

In a statement, Starbucks said it will offer front-line workers a free tall brewed coffee, hot or iced, throughout the month as a way “to recognize the significant efforts of the front-line responder and health care community” during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“It has been an extraordinarily difficult year, especially for the front-line responders who are serving our communities,” Starbucks Vice President Virginia Tenpenny said in a news release. “We want to show our deep gratitude for those who support and protect us every day with a small gesture of kindness and a cup of coffee.”

Those eligible for the offer include doctors, nurses, public health workers, pharmacists, dispatchers, firefighters, paramedics, police officers, dentists and dental hygienists, mental health workers (therapists, psychologists, social workers, counselors, etc.), hospital staff such as janitors, housekeeping/security and active-duty military, according to Starbucks.

Customers will need to identify themselves as one of those workers in order to receive the free coffee