Couple problems here.
First, non-paying customers tend to be, umm, not the most hygenic, even to the point of disgusting ... Starbucks will be doing a lot more bathroom cleaning now ...
Plus, certain non-paying customers like to use the bathroom for non-bathroom activities, like hookers having sex, addicts shooting up or smoking crack, or just sleeping on the floor ... ask any 24-hr McDonalds owner in a big city about late-nite problems
All of which will be a BIG turnoff for those customers that actually pay ... has Starbucks actually thought this through??
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’.
SBUX currently in a nose dive opening at 57.72 now 57.15
Poster on stock site:
8,000 new homeless shelters in the USA. Comes with free WiFi! Complimentary soap and shampoo in the bathroom! Cleanup!
Tell the minimum wage employees that they will be serving water to and cleaning up after non-paying AND non-tipping customers who tie up restroom and reading spaces further limiting the time tipping customers spend there.
I can’t believe they didn’t think of those things, but then again I can’t believe they could and then go ahead with this idiotic plan.