shares of doordash inc rallied on tuesday after the fooddelivery platform said it would widen its delivery partnership with starbucks corp to more us states with plans to make the service available to some degree in all 50 states by march doordash dash said tuesday it would start delivering starbucks sbux food and drinks in northern california texas georgia florida and elsewhere starbucks delivery service via doordash would expand “to additional markets over the coming months” the delivery company said those plans follow what doordash said was “positive feedback” from a trial run in atlanta houston and sacramento followed by an expansion last year to seattle portland and new york brooke o’berry starbucks’ senior vice president of digital experiences said delivery “continues to be a significant growth opportunity for starbucks” users can also customize their starbucks orders in the doordash app that customization has helped starbucks increase profits on orders shares of doordash were up 32 on tuesday starbucks shares inched 01 higher the expansion would arrive amid questions about the ability of doordash uber eats and other gigeconomy companies to attract drivers bofa analysts this month said that hundreds of thousands more workers could enter the gig labor pool if a recession were to hit with analysts still worried about inflation’s impact on demand starbucks interim chief executive howard schultz in november described its coffee as an “affordable luxury” that customers were willing to spend on executives have said higher prices younger loyal customers and cold customizable drinks would help it weather any economic storm starbucks stock is up 10 over the past 12 months shares of doordash are down 58 over that time the sp 500 index spx is down around 11 over that period