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Quote: (06-14-2018 07:19 AM)puckerman Wrote:
I am not surprised there have been copycat incidents in other cities. In Portland, an African American was refused service when she entered a bakery AFTER it had closed. She made a video and accused the bakery of "racism." Instead of standing their ground, the owners of the bakery fired the employees and apologized.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/201..._time.html
It's not hard to figure out that this stuff is being done on purpose. Politics is all about shit-testing as well.
https://quillette.com/2018/06/05/portlan...ns-batter/
It turns out the owners of the bakery are gay. So, this is another example of the left eating their own. That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if conservative Christians caved on something like this as well.
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Starbucks’ new bathroom policy not working out as hoped
However, it is working out as expected.
It has been 7 months since the famous purveyor of caffeinated confection, Starbucks, declared their bathrooms “open to the public” without the need to purchase their products.
Data suggests that the virtue signaling isn’t working out as well as hoped by the corporate leaders. A New York Post team investigated several Manhattan bathrooms and found that there wasn’t an open stall.
…A half-dozen toilets were locked or barricaded for no clear reason. Others were closed for prolonged “cleaning,” which an insider said was needed after extreme soiling caused by drug-using, incontinent vagrants.
“Letting everybody in has resulted in nobody getting in,” an employee at one branch fumed.
“Rest Room closed,” declared signs at 399 Seventh Ave. (entrance on West 32nd Street) and at a branch at Pearl Street and Maiden Lane. At 252 W. 31st St., the road to relief was blocked by garbage cans. Furniture and boxes formed a barrier at 61 W. 56th St.
A rope and traffic cones barred the way at 38 Park Row. When a desperate visitor asked if the loo would reopen any time soon, a barista directed him to a Dunkin’ Donuts nearby.
Why would the bathrooms need “prolonged cleaning”? Perhaps the experience of the Seattle shops provides an explanation:
Several Starbucks workers in Seattle say that they’re encountering hypodermic needles on the job nearly every day and that they’ve had to take antiviral medications to protect themselves from HIV and hepatitis.
Three employees at the coffee giant in northern Seattle told the local news station KIRO 7 that visitors would dispose of the needles in store restrooms, often in tampon-disposal boxes, and that workers would then come in contact with them while cleaning and were sometimes accidentally poked.
KIRO 7 said the three employees provided hospital, pharmacy, and insurance receipts showing that they took antiviral medications to protect against HIV and hepatitis after being poked by needles at work.
Providing extra safety training and prophylactic care for employees can be expensive. The extra costs could have been a contributing factor in a spate of recent layoffs.
Starbucks will lay off 350 corporate employees amid a broader effort to revamp its global operations even as the coffeehouse chain’s former top executive gears up for a 2020 presidential bid.
Chief Executive Officer Kevin Johnson announced the 5 percent reduction of Starbucks’ global workforce in a staff email on Tuesday, writing that the layoffs are “a result of work that has been eliminated, de-prioritized or shifting ways of working within the company.”
The best lesson to be had here may be not to let anything other than profit and customer satisfaction drive your business decisions.
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Starbucks' efforts to address opioid use and improperly disposed needles in its bathrooms are expanding.
Starbucks stores in at least 25 US markets have installed needle-disposal boxes in bathrooms in recent months. By this summer, the chain aims to have installed sharps boxes in bathrooms in all regions where such action has been deemed necessary.
The coffee giant also allows local district managers or store managers to put in requests to have sharps-disposal boxes installed in their locations' bathrooms.
"We are always working and listening to our partners on ways we can better support them when it comes to issues like these," Reggie Borges, a Starbucks representative, said in an email to Business Insider.
Starbucks has been testing solutions in recent months as workers' safety concerns have mounted, with thousands of employees signing a petition calling for Starbucks to place needle-disposal boxes in high-risk bathrooms.
Quote: (12-15-2018 08:58 PM)CaptainCup Wrote:
I live in a large city on the East Coast and my experience with Starbucks is that they are very generous - in a city where restaurants typically have a “bathroom for customers only” sign. I’ve seen SB give free cups of water to students and homeless. There was even a SB near a large tourist attraction that had more European tourists waiting to use the pisser than customers buying stuff.
Given, as other posters mentioned, that a lot of “customers” in SB milk a single coffee all day while mooching free internet and taking up space, I suspect these two dudes in the article must have done something very ostentatious and belligerent. Yes, being gracious with the bathroom is the decent thing to do and is good business. However, being beligerent and adding stress to the SB worker’s shift is not excusable and the manager was right to call the cops.
All that said, I’m not surprised about the SB CEO issuing his cuck-o-gram apology.
Quote: (04-22-2019 05:22 PM)debeguiled Wrote:
Already installed in my town, been here a couple of weeks.
There is also a list of suggestions on how to be a good citizen on the bathroom doors.
I bet it is pretty fun to see that list on your way in to dumping all your clothes in the toilet and flushing.
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Starbucks has been testing solutions in recent months as workers' safety concerns have mounted, with thousands of employees signing a petition calling for Starbucks to place needle-disposal boxes in high-risk bathrooms.