Posted on 07/03/2016 4:15:00 AM PDT by HomerBohn
...and a latte (coffee with cream?) $5.50.
I love that in this country a business is free to make poor decisions like hiring whiny people and paying them too much.
Dunkin Donuts has the tip jars too. I escape that by using their mobile apps to pay. I just scan my phone and I’m out of there. Starbucks has a pop up on their app letting you tip but I just close it.
I don’t mind tipping at a sit down restaurant but being expected to tip at the counter for a cup of coffee is ridiculous. Especially when you have to stand in line behind giggling teen age girls who have extremely complicated instructions to make their $7 concoction. Is this like a game among them? Seeing who can order the most complicated drink?
I just order black coffee.
I don’t have the option of sitting at home with a cup of coffee. I am out of the house 14 hours a day and need to be on the road by 4:30 am.
The article is just flat out wrong.....
Total compensation is NOT pay plus hours worked. Total compensation includes benefits and the cost of administration. It is the cost of having a person as an employee. Even if one does not include admin costs it still includes benefits (and that includes the free drinks and free pound of coffee)
A venti with 4 shots of espresso. Let's try to be accurate.
Most Starnucks employees are students. They are working and going to school. Starnucks allows flexibility of schedule. Plus every Starbucks I know of pays a very nice hourly wage
Robotic Baristas.
Guarantee you they’re coming, just like kiosks in MacDonalds and robotic burger flippers.
I gotta figure out which robotics/AI company to invest in.
Robotic/AI “Judgement Day” will be the legacy of the “Unintended Consequences” of government interference in the interpersonal free market exchange of goods and services.
“While its employees contend with reduced work hours and, therefore, pay, Starbucks’ established cafes in U.S.-dominated Americas region is enjoying increased sales of:
9% sales increase in the first quarter of this year,
7% increase in the second quarter, and
an expected 6.2% increase for the current quarter, according to Consensus Metrix.”
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How do these numbers translate to the franshise owners all over the country? To be honest, I feel sorry for them in investing so much of them $$ and time in a business, only to be undercut by an out-of-touch CEO who makes proclamations that gun owners and people who believe in traditional marriage are not welcome in Starbucks and now this.
$15 / hour pay may not hurt Starbucks in large metropolitan areas where salaries were likely near that amount. But what about in the regional and rural areas? The franchisee pays more in salary but cuts back in hours and employees.....meaning that the franchisee is the one who works longer hours (no extra pay) to make up the difference.
There are food service jobs open every where. The Subway here is offering a $50 hiring bonus. Quit Starbucks and you can have as many hours as you want anywhere else.
It would just require a bit more work than merely making coffee.
Good points.
Many forget that employees need a backroom administrator.
But eventually this central socialist government will edict that employers MUST pay what they’re ordered to.
I’ve never been in a Starbucks and never will.
But who needs anything in their coffee (or tea, for that matter) but a dram of whiskey? Or Brandy.
You not racist, are you? :)
With the extraordinary markup on Starbucks product they can certainly afford to pay more than other businesses.
Coffee presses are very good and Keurig is fine if you buy the $5 reusable plastic one to fill with your own brand of (cheap) coffee. Forget buying the loaded cartridges.
It did not work out right because they need to raise the wage to $25/hour. Silly conservatives.
Those things bug me to no end. You are standing in line to be waited on. You bus your own food, drink, cone or whatever. In some cases, you are even paying top dollar for it because of location or whatever.
It makes less sense than putting a tip jar at the grocery store check-out line.
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