CNN —A Starbucks app outage on Tuesday left customers unable to place a mobile order, delaying caffeine fixes for millions of coffee lovers until the app returned to service later in the day. Starbucks’ outage woes come as mobile app and drive-thru orders make up more than 70% of Starbucks sales across approximately 9,500 stores nationwide. Starbucks app is seemingly down nationwide, leaving millions of customers unable to place mobile orders. “The Starbucks app not working on my birthday is so rude come on,” wrote X user @syndey_fields1. The Tuesday Starbucks outage took place at the same time that Microsoft reported its Azure cloud computing servers were down.

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