Starbucks Apologizes For Racial Slur On Customer's Order

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Starbucks' day of racial-bias training for its baristas can't come soon enough.

With less than two weeks to go before the coffee chain closes stores nationwide to educate its nearly 175,000 workers on how not to discriminate against others, Starbucks (SBUX) this week found itself apologizing for doing just that.

The apology on social media came after a customer at a Starbucks in La Cañada Flintridge, California, found the word "Beaner" -- a derogatory term for Mexicans -- printed on his coffee drink instead of "Pedro," his name.

A friend of Pedro's who translated for him told CBS Los Angeles that his "friend was also sad" about the unfair treatment.

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