"Sell! Sell! Sell!"
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.
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Ouch! Glad I'm not a shareholder.
Bwah hah hah hah hah! What a profile in courage!
Oh, sure, be the gracious white oriented corporation and reserve ONLY ONE table for the poor and homeless when you know there are more poor people out there than the rich who can afford your expensive coffees. All your table are belong to us.
Even the police?!?
Lol - perfect.
Sell SBUX shares.
No free coffee?
That’s how they get you, man.
Aren’t free washrooms and couch space for the homeless already covered by taxpayers at the public library?
Why have a key at all?
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.
"Sell! Sell! Sell!"
There won’t be a Starbucks above the Mason dixon line that won’t be packed full of homeless critters from Ocrober thru April
Another epic Starbucks backfire in the making. Tone deaf progs trying to run a business.
Turn all Starbucks into homeless shelters for all I care.
You can afford it Howie.
Do it.
I wonder what the share holders think about this.
/My daughter lives in Ballard. The homeless situation there is disgusting.
That’s too bad. I lived in Seattle from 2001 - 06. My best friend lived in Ballard and I visited her there often. It was a nice neighborhood.
I also have a friend that just moved from Seattle to TN for retirement. He’s conservative and between the expense (tho he made a killing on his house) and the politics, he was outta there.
Seattle was a beautiful city, even with the liberal spin, I hated leaving, but it sounds like the city I knew is gone.
Not even the drive thru is safe.
This policy should do wonders for the “atmosphere” within Starbucks coffee shops.
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.
Yep, wave bye bye to ANY moms w/ kids, people with compromised immune systems & lots of others. I don’t think it is selfish for customers who are spending hard earned money at your business to expect a bathroom & business that are clean & for paying customers.
My family lives in Federal Way. Yep, the homeless problem is expanding out of Seattle into the suburbs. And, neither Ballard or Federal Way is all that close to Seattle; but, probably get there on the bus. There are two wooded areas near our house where these guys are camped out.
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