Posted on 03/19/2015 12:19:11 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Starbucks just announced a new campaign inviting their customers to discuss race relations with baristas. The Seattle-based coffee company is asking employees to write “Race Together” on the side of customers’ cups, in an effort to engage them to discuss…well, their ethnicity. The campaign was sparked by the recent uptick in nationally-covered racially-charged tragedies, according to a Starbucks press release.
“What if we were to write ‘Race Together’ on every Starbucks cup, and that facilitated a conversation between you and our customers?” Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz says in a video message to partners. “And what if our customers as a result of that had a renewed level of understanding and sensitivity about the issue, and they themselves would spread that to their own sphere of influence?”
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Can we ask them how many stores they operate in predominantly black neighborhoods?
Yeah was/is there still a Starbucks in Ferguson? Did it get looted?
#BlackCoffeeMatters
The baristas deserve a HUGE pay raise now, IMO, as their job description has just become way more complex.
Sure. “Uh, could you please pour that into a cup that hasn’t been defaced with obscenities?”
Of course that’s a hypothetical since I haven’t stepped in a SBUX for years because the crapolla espresso shots that come out of their never-calibrated automatic espresso machines aren’t even as good as the insipid coffee made in a home pod machine.
#WhoisJohnGalt?
Life is too short to discuss non-existent race issues with pseudo-intellectual, unprepared-for-life. “educated”-by-”studies”-courses millenials.
I went to Starbucks yesterday and had a race discussion with a Venti black man....
The idea of using store employees to discuss race with customers is such a stupid idea only liberals could have thought of it. Liberals always come up with the best, stupid ideas.
No for several reasons:
If I go to a burger joint....I’m there for a burger and not to talk bait and lures with the clerk. If I go to a gas station....I’m there for gas and not to talk great NY Yankee shortstops of all time with the clerk. If I go to Walmart for some cheap wine....I’m there for wine and to talk septic tank solutions with the clerk.
These people act like customers have hours and hours each week in some line or at some counter and we can haul up and discuss Green Bay quarterback complaints with some clerk there and get some satisfaction from that brief moment. Mighty bizarre if you ask me....to think this way.
The idea of the wrap-around drive-through is to hide the fact that you’ll be sitting behind 6 other customers; I don’t like it, but understand it.
I’d only discuss race AFTER my drink is ready. No spit for me. To heck with Starbucks too, coffee all tastes burnt.
ping for things to discuss with the SBX barista while they get paid to insult me for being white.
I like it! You could make stickers to sell, we normal people could use them on our cups everywhere we go to respond to being hectored and lectured
kinda like “Kilroy was here”
As you know liberals infect everything we do with their propaganda. Interesting isn’t it that a big company chooses “race” as its distraction.
How about corporate greed, or income inequality?
Why aren’t the “barristas” unionized?
,,,,, starbucks is for lonely people with not much going on in their lives . One would have to be fairly bored and over paid to pay 5 - 8 dollars for a cup of coffee . Who do they think they are impressing ? Do they actually know how good and affordable Dunkin Donuts coffee is ?? Think of all those donuts you could take back to the office with the money you save ,,,, now that’s impressive !
I’ll be glad to discuss race relations at Starbucks, so long as the conversation centers on the Confederate flag and affirmative action. Nothing like a mini race riot in the store!
The Fivebucks CEO wants their employees to write a two word slogan on their cups. Well, I have two words for them also.
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