McDonald's stores in Denver ready to battle Starbucks

By Joyzelle Davis, Rocky Mountain News

McDonald's, already the nation's biggest hamburger chain, is escalating its simmering breakfast battle with Starbucks as it rolls out espresso drinks at all 110 Denver-area locations next week.

McDonald's is overhauling all of its restaurants in the region to include a McCafe that serves a premium line of iced and hot lattes, cappuccinos and mochas. Denver stores will officially begin serving the coffee drinks on Wednesday, relatively early on in the restaurant chain's national rollout, which started this summer. Some 3,500 of McDonald's 14,000 U.S. stores offer the premium coffee drinks.

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