Posted on 06/30/2016 10:59:44 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Nearly 9,000 Starbucks Corp workers and supporters have signed an online petition saying that the company has made "extreme labor cuts" at U.S. cafes, hurting employee morale as well as customer service.
Some employees said new technology that allows customers to order and pay from mobile devices is putting additional pressure on employees at some stores.
"Mobile orders have increased sales and created more need for labor, yet the company is cutting labor," wrote Makenna S., identified as a shift supervisor.
Like other restaurants and retail companies, Starbucks is wrestling with the effects of local minimum wage increases. Some petition commenters said Starbucks had not boosted pay for existing workers in areas where minimum wages have increased - creating a situation where new hires are paid about the same wage as more experienced peers.
Signers said take-home pay has taken a further hit because tipping has falling substantially amid broad customer adoption of the "Starbucks Rewards" program, which allows customers to pay with a loyalty card or mobile phones.
Starbucks' U.S.-dominated Americas region posted a 7 percent gain in the second quarter, down from 9 percent in the first quarter, and the current quarter rise is seen at 6.2 percent, according to Consensus Metrix.
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0bamaCare.
You liberal suckers voted for it.
Eat it raw.
More liberalism you voted for:
“local minimum wage increases”
Eat it, jerks. It’s your own sh*t.
You voted for the Grande Obamacare and now you rue the day.
Wake up and smell the coffee!
Correct but they should string Howard Schultz by his feet for this too. The guy is a red diaper doper baby in speech but a cutthroat capitalist when it comes to payroll?
You just can’t make this stuff up.
I could easily see a fully automated Starbucks in the near future
Drive up, place order, pay with CC, proceed to waiting area, with a numbered card- when your order is ready you proceed to get inline again, insert your paid card and a window opens to present present your order.
I could automate that in a couple of months, easy - if any one is interested (call me)
Lol!!!
When you idiots ask for $15 min wage, you’re going to get minimum work.
Goddamn but these people are stupid! I want to scream in their faces: “It’s what you wanted! suck it up!”
Schultz is a Corporatist-Crony Capitalist who is hostile to the Constitution of the United States.
That was one company I figured would never fly…
Should have bought the ipo
The number of hours available depend on employee performance. Do a great job and get the max number of hours. And better tips. Funny how things work that way.
LIEberals vote for their own mess and then blame everybody else. Effin leftists should let conservatives handle the economy as it would benefit them too. Anyone voting lefty receiving economic pain well, too bad.
Starbucks can suck it!
That being said any employee of mine that trys to manipulate my business beyond my control will be fired on the spot.
Hows that for a labor cut?
Ob-wan: “This is not the Liberalism you voted for”
These little snow flakes need to take an econ class. You can pick the wage or the number of workers, but not both.
Liberal servers learning how liberal serve Dem. Are they finally learning economics? If so that’s good new for Trump cause maybe in the future they’ll be able to graduate to a real paying job. Maybe one that will afford dem to pay back the LIBERAL arts degree!-)
so raise the price of a cup of coffee from $25.00 to $30.00
Are The Wobblies (IWW) still trying to organize them?
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