"Each year as a standard course of business, we evaluate the store portfolio to determine where we can best meet our community and customers' needs," the spokesperson said in a statement.
"We remain dedicated to investing in the City in meaningful and important ways that meet our partners and customers where they are - in the best way we know how," wrote Jessica Borton, Starbucks' regional vice president for Northern California, in an internal memo shared with CNN.
The closures come as several well-known chains have left San Francisco in the last few years, including Whole Foods, CB2, Anthropologie and Nordstrom, CNN previously reported.
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