Perhaps Starbucks should include a brief lesson on how to breach a door. That skill will come in handy.
The only reason I enter a Starbucks is for the bathroom (and yes, I would pay for something if I had to), mostly for a child. Now I will just choose a fast food place.
I always see people sitting with laptops and tablets working at Starbucks, just sitting outside at tables getting some work done, having their coffee. These people do not look like they want to be sitting next to a urine soaked homeless guy. I’m thinking they would choose the park or even their car over Starbucks once the homeless are allowed to hang out there.
They could offer a coffee drink for those who will be staying all day called the “Door Breacher” ;-)
Don’t they have public libraries? That’s where homeless people usually live, and bathe.
I used to work downtown. There was a Starbucks on the first floor of our building.
We routinely had the public wandering on to our floors and using the restrooms. Sometimes they smoked, sometimes they shot up, one guy left his bag of marijuana in the last stall (guess he didn’t want to take it with him upstairs to court.)
Those people and all their wacky friends will be camped in the Starbucks now, talking to the furniture and yelling at the bags of coffee.
Starbucks will deeply regret this policy.
In the Starbuck’s board room, this is known as “OPERATION: Get to know Hep A”
My oldest daughter worked at a Starbucks and they constantly had problems with junkies going into their bathrooms and shooting up. This new policy is going to make it worse.
I am enjoying the “fail”. I don’t go to Starbucks any more anyway. I love it when leftists shoot themselves in the foot.
I would not make a scene if I had been refused, but it has never come up.
I can still remember the gas stations where they kept the key to the bathroom on a big stick and if you asked for it you had to buy something before they’d give it to you.
The caring ought to pass out flyers to the scruffies in the vivinity of a Starbucks letting them know that they are as welcome as any paying guest. Come one come all. Even escort them.
I'm wondering if these two who were arrested are very clever and entrepreneurial young men. They saw a double standard and exploited it.
The only reason I plan on entering a Starbucks will be to use the bathroom. Nice of them to supply free public rest rooms.
The Starbucks restrooms will be exploited by the homeless, drug addicts and others turning them into filthy holes. I pity the Starbucks employees who will have to clean up the inevitable mess these freeloaders will leave behind.
My second day without Starbucks. Went to a French place in the morning and a kosher dairy place in the afternoon. Sampling the coffee and the food. They both close early. Maybe when Joe & The Juice opens it will be open late.