Starbucks ordered to face suit claiming fruit drinks missing fruit, Reuters says

A federal judge has ordered Starbucks to face a lawsuit alleging that several of its Refresher fruit beverages lacked fruit, rejecting Starbucks’ request to dismiss nine of the 11 claims in the proposed class action, saying “a significant portion of reasonable consumers” would expect their drinks to contain fruit mentioned in their names, Reuters’ Jonathan Stempel reports. Consumers complained that Starbucks’ Mango Dragonfruit, Mango Dragonfruit Lemonade, Pineapple Passionfruit, Pineapple Passionfruit Lemonade, Strawberry Acai and Strawberry Acai Lemonade Refreshers contained none of the advertised mango, passion fruit or acai, while Starbucks maintained that the product names described the drinks’ flavors as opposed to their ingredients, and its menu boards accurately advertised those flavors.