Posted on 05/11/2018 8:28:45 AM PDT by ethom
The ever well meaning Starbucks chairman, Howie Schultz, more terrified of bad publicity and claims of racism than anything in the world, has just announced a rather customer-unfriendly policy of opening Starbucks bathrooms (as well as table space) to all comers, including people who won't spring for a $4 cup of coffee. Speaking to the Atlantic Council, Schultz said:
"We don't want to become a public bathroom, but we're going to make the right decision a hundred percent of the time and give people the key," Schultz said, "because we don't want anyone at Starbucks to feel as if we are not giving access to you to the bathroom because you are less than."
Well, yes, you do, Howie. If you open the bathrooms to all comers, including non-paying customers, you're turning Starbucks into a public bathroom. The fact that Starbucks will be the only business with such a policy means that all of the homeless will concentrate in these outlets. Rival store-owners and social service agencies will actually direct the homeless to Starbucks outlets for the free services. Large groups will congregate, moms with strollers drinking lattes and buying their little ones apple sauce in packets will sit cheek to jowl with hardcore drug-addicted homeless and now entertain requests for spare change.
So is Starbucks prepared to corral its baristas into double-duty, non-stop bathroom cleaning from those who choose to camp out on its grounds? Schultz is not stupid and probably knows what he is doing. It's easy to lean on the baristas for more work in disgusting tasks such as cleaning up after the homeless when they already work extremely hard at making coffee. I can't see baristas being happy about this, so in any case, so look to unionization efforts to take hold, too.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
In related News, Howie will be sending Workmen to every Starbucks Employee’s Home (except his own) to remove the Exterior Doors so the Homeless and Illegal Invaders will have a place to sleep and procreate...
If you’re going to advertise for homeless. Build them a shower and some sort of super fast laundry freshener service, and provide disposable tooth brushes, toothpaste and mouthwash.
this is all knee jerk reaction to the barista calling the cops on the three men on the east coast who wouldn’t buy coffee and said they were watiting for a ‘business meeting’.
This will end well for them (snort).
We may see the end of Starbucks.
Plus AIDS
Starbucks employees queers
Queers and homeless. No telling what you’ll catch just washing your hands
What, just bathrooms but no showers? Rascists.
the Los Angeles Metro system is already building the free showers and Starbucks will provide housing for the Skid Row denizens!
If they will never withhold the key, what is the purpose of a lock?
He will just repel the paying customers.
the baristas have just become 24 hour janitors!
Hahaha. What a joke. Who wants to go to Starbucks, pay $10 for a coffee and sit next to a stinky homeless guy?
This will be great to see the snotty liberal Starbucks crowd put their money where their mouth is.
They say they care about the homeless, poor, illegals.... we’ll see.
Perfect.
Yeah, that’ll make me go there.
If I ever want burned coffee and a dirty bathroom.
You couldn’t get me into a Starbucks at gunpoint, now. Angry baristas spending half their time cleaning up the bathrooms after homeless drug addicts, then going to make the coffee and handle the food? Oh, hell no. Nope, nope, nope.
Then he should install showers, pass out free-to-use laptops and hold “how to find a job” classes like I used to teach at the unemployment office. And free coffee and food.
Good thought but I’d suggest the following-———
AMERICA runs TO Dunkin.
Good motto and probably quite accurate.
Goodbye, Starbucks - it was fun making fun of you while you lasted.
Although, it’ll probably take a year or two for this policy to cause your company to fail, so I’ve got a little more time...
Will customers use truth in ordering? “I’ll have a venti mocha e-coli with a double shot of Tuberculosis.
Hmm, I wonder if this guy has ridden BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit, in the San Francisco Area) lately, and seen the results of allowing the homeless to use the trains as mobile shelters and the stations as bathrooms. It is not pretty, what liberal policies have done to public transit. The results in Starbucks cannot turn out any different.
Liberal policies are destructive because a certain amount of discrimination is actually necessary when dealing with other human beings. Fact is, not everyone is equally civilized.
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