After 2pm Dash returns at Starbucks Rewards May 9-15 in 2017

This is one of the more common Starbucks Rewards promotions, the “After 2pm Dash”. Just like before, you have to first manually activate the offer, assuming you had been offered this. Check your email or Starbucks app to see if you have. Once you activate it, the promotion runs between May 9-15 in 2017. A whole week. If you make six purchases after 2pm local time, you get 50 bonus stars. If you make eight (or more), you get 100 bonus stars. In other words, once you reach the six, it only takes an extra two for an equal bonus.

50 bonus stars are 40% towards a reward. So doing this promotion is 80% towards a full reward. In addition to the stars you earn on the actual purchase amount.

I believe there is an overlap between this promotion and the Frapuccino Happy Hour, which runs 3-5pm (or 6pm for Rewards members). So you can score a frapp at half off and get strikes towards the Dash. I forgot how long the half-off frapp offer runs, but it finishes before the 15th for sure.