Starbucks says customers can give Charlie Kirk’s name when they order

If you order a Mint Majesty tea with two honeys at Starbucks and give Charlie Kirk’s name, as some people are reportedly doing, you shouldn’t expect pushback at the register.

The Washington-based coffee giant has clarified that when a customer wants to use a name other than their own on an order, including Kirk’s name, “we aim to respect their preference.”

The company’s clarification came “in response to online discussion about our policy for customer names on orders,” Starbucks said in a Sept. 17 statement.

It also followed some apparent controversy linked to Kirk, the conservative activist who was fatally shot Sept. 10 while speaking at Utah Valley University.

Kirk reportedly had a specific Starbucks tea order.

A recent TikTok video purported to show a barista balking at writing Kir