Posted on 05/15/2018 7:27:42 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Customers are not only paying for the coffee; they are paying for the heat and air conditioning, tables, accessible WiFi and bathrooms. Partners are paid to keep the place clean and comfortable for customers who spend literal hours studying, working, and holding meetings in the store. It seems like a fair trade to me.
It doesn’t seem like a fair trade to me, however, if I pay $5 for my drink and then have to wait in line with a bunch of random tourists who just walked in wanting to use the single-family bathroom without buying anything. It also doesn’t seem like a fair trade if I’m paid to clean a bathroom that has been used for the wrong reasons by people who don’t care about the fact that it’s my job to clean up after them.
I would say that I hope store managers will continue to use their best judgment with their backs turned to Starbucks’ new bathroom policy to decide who should and should not have access to their bathrooms, but that would probably result in another viral video, national outrage, and more policy changes.
So I’ll just leave it at this: The bathroom policy should have never been altered.
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I guess actual impact will depend on the location of an individual Starbucks....the one in our town is a separate building at the front of a supermarket parking lot - one would have to drive to it, and park to use the restroom and service stations are more convenient if that’s all you need to do...and most have no “buy something to use the loo” policy in place. Being near a ‘wrong part” of town might make a difference and who wants to be there anyway....
In Los Angeles, Starbuck’s restrooms have never been locked. I’ve never encountered a line.
Yes. Only in L.A. This is to make sure no one really stays for long. Happened to me a few times. Just waiting for my GF and told the parking guys Im a customer and they still treat you like sh*t
There’s gotta be a joke in there somewhere.
Jeff Foxworthy did a gig in a bowling alley up north that had valet parking. The patrons around the bar were ragging him about rednecks down south. He replied “if you’re bowling alley has valet parking, you might be a redneck.”
And the rest is history.
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