Starbucks drinkers beware?

According to this post on seriouseats.com, Starbucks refuses to publish ingredients and nutritional data for some of their drinks.  In fact, it seems like they won’t even give out that information over the phone. I don’t know about you, but this troubles me.  Why isn’t this information available to the public?  I don’t think Starbucks would hide info for our benefit.  I think the contrary.  Here is a snip:

WTF? What kind of food service business refuses to provide written nutritional information? About ALLERGENS? Does that meant they plan to lie, and don’t want to be trapped by independent testing? The whole goal of a franchise business is to provide a uniform experience across the brand, so they *must* have ingredient specifications written down somewhere.

I was only an occasional Starbucks customer - but now I am not a customer at all. Their policy implies there is something weird or false going on with ingredients. Ick!”

YEP! — Read more about that here.  Drinks mentioned in the article are the new Vivanno drinks and the age old Chai drinks.

Buyer beware?