Posted on 05/21/2018 5:30:23 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The “Third Place Policy” maintains that employees should consider anyone who enters Starbucks space, including restrooms, cafes and patios, a customer “regardless of whether they make a purchase,” the company said in a statement.
In a Starbucks subreddit, people are voicing concerns that the new policy will lead to stores being filled with homeless people and drug users. One user who claims they work at a Chicago Starbucks wrote that a homeless person using the bathroom got into a fight with a customer and police requested to see the store policy before taking action.
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“This is exactly the kind of behavior that I fear will drive all the regular customers away, at least from urban locations. Opposing racism is nice and all, but it is not the responsibility of Starbucks to resolve all urban problems at one location let alone turn its stores into homeless drop-in centers,” another user wrote in response.
On another thread debating the new policy, a Starbucks customer expressed similar concerns. “I can't see how this will work in urban areas with large homeless/mentally ill populations... I just worry about how many employees will be put in danger (or get fired) until this happens,” the user wrote.
Someone claiming to be an employee who works at a store in the loop in Chicago said they hate the new policy because the store bathrooms have turned into a hub for drug activity. “We haven’t been allowed to change our bathroom codes since April. So almost all the junkies and homeless people know the code now. About once a week we find needles, drug baggies, blood all over the toilet or walls,” the user wrote.
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I thought it was too; but not sure how it would go over if a little girl said it in school.
She would definitely do better going with ‘micturate’ - but chances are, these days, that neither her teacher nor your son’s would even know what was meant ;-)
Cold brew is the way to go....
Best ice coffee ever...no need for milk or sugar
I’ve been telling people that if they’re out and about or on vacation and need a rest room, Starbucks is offering theirs to anyone and you don’t even have to buy anything.
Who the hell would want to work at Starbucks??
As minimum wage jobs go - there are a ton of other places who at least respect their employees and aren’t so politically divisive.
I don't drink coffee but I know people want to go to Starbucks to sit quietly in a clean atmosphere and act intellectual....druggies and homeless bums ain't going to add to the ambiance.
Someone better check and see if any of the board or top officers are shorting the company stock.
Not kidding.
Oh, Gosh. There will be a lot more than pee in there.
Damn tourists!
Last week my friend told me that they banned this guy. He got into an argument with a guest, and he was yelling at the desk clerk. He's gone now.
In my considered opinion, coffee should only be hot and black. I can get that better than Starbucks, at the Seven Eleven.
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The restrooms at Starbucks will soon look like those in a highway rest stop next to a diarrhea hospital during a norovirus epidemic. Pity the Starbucks employees who will have to clean up the mess..hope Starbucks is buying haz-mat suits and drums of powerful disinfectant.
I have a crazy idea for all those folks wondering if the new policy will work or not. Stop buying anything from starbucks.
JoMa
Starbucks executives know very little about the homeless. They are not aware of how they smell, their almost constant diarrhea, the filth that falls off of them even when they sit still.
A city health department would go berserk with the consequences of three or four of these maggots residing in a Starbucks.
And, when they refuse to leave, the employees will just have to shrug and go about their business. Only if the "offender" is male and white might further action be taken.
The baristas have enough dirty work as it is. They had to wake up a sleeping guy a day or two ago. (Yes, I’m still there until I can find good coffee with a bathroom where it isn’t too expensive. Filicori and Pain Quotidien are on my list of possibles.)
#6 and “road diets” here in Los Angeles where they take traffic lanes away and give them to bike riders....
I heard a very angry business owner on the radio today talking about it.
Or ladylike: ‘I need to powder my nose’.
What a coincidence. Here in my small city, they turned a somewhat busy 4 lane road into 2 lanes plus bike lanes. This liberal city wants to be “bike friendly”.
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