topic Re: Starbucks or Coffee Shop code for Amex Gold? in Credit Cards

Starbucks or Coffee Shop code for Amex Gold?

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 07:03:47 GMT

Anyone know if Amex consider Starbucks or coffee shops as "Restaurants" and 4X for Amex Gold? Thanks

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ScoreSizzle — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 09:18:19 GMT

Starbucks is showing up as 4X for me.

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Anonymous — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 12:16:32 GMT

Mini coffee/pastry chains Paris Baguette and Madison Kayser only are 1x for me.

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Shadowfactor — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 13:23:13 GMT

Starbucks app reloads don’t count as a restaurant with Amex the last time I did one. It’s been a while as I normally use the Altitude at Starbucks with Apple Pay.

I don’t know about if you swipe it at in store

Re: Starbucks or Coffee Shop code for Amex Gold?

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 14:38:10 GMT

@Shadowfactor wrote:
Starbucks app reloads don’t count as a restaurant with Amex the last time I did one.

@I canceled my Starbucks app last week (long story ) but the app reloads or card swipe @ the store counted under restaurant 4X for me.

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FinStar — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 15:03:43 GMT

Starbucks has coded as 4x for me as well.

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Trikoret — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 15:06:45 GMT

I reloaded couple of times on Starbucks app and it did give me 4x

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Shadowfactor — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 18:02:39 GMT

Interesting.

Did you use Apple Pay with your Amex card in the Starbucks app or did you load the card directly into the app and process the payment that way ?

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Anonymous — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 18:10:00 GMT

Does it make a difference if lets say the Starbucks is a stand alone store or one that is inside a Mall/Target/Airport etc..

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Anonymous — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 18:22:37 GMT

Thanks everyone. Will be switching my Starbucks spend from my Uber to the Gold Card now.

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NRB525 — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 18:53:15 GMT

Yes, it can make a difference where the store or kiosk is.

My favored strategy is to always use my Starbucks “gift card” reloaded and linked in my Starbucks account, to buy coffee at Starbucks. You get two stars per dollar, or about 6% earnings on that. If they don’t take the Starbucks card, it’s probably not a Starbucks owned location

The card used to load the Starbucks gift card gets appropriate rewards, whether 4MR on Gold, 5UR on Freedom this quarter through Chase Pay, or in the current Starbucks promotion $20 loaded through Chase Pay up to three times gets you something like 475 Starbucks stars.

That promo calculates out to about a 43% return using Freedom on Chase Pay and then the SBUX card to buy the coffee. AMEX SUB Dining on SPG Lux and Hilton also codes on card reloads. So I haven’t used the Gold card yet at Starbucks since the 4MR came out