Free Coffee For Front Line Workers At Starbucks In Ellicott City

ELLICOTT CITY, MD — Front line workers can get free coffee throughout December from Starbucks locations throughout the United States, including in Ellicott City and across Howard County.

Starbucks has locations in Ellicott City at:

• Target, 4390 Montgomery Rd., Ellicott City
• Safeway, 4370 Montgomery Rd., Ellicott City
• 9251 Baltimore National Pike, Ellicott City
• Safeway, 10000 Baltimore National Pike, Ellicott City
• The Shoppes at Shipley's Grant, 5715 Richards Valley Rd., Ellicott City

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.