Not All Starbucks Restrooms Are Open For "Business"
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I avoid bathrooms at Starbucks like the plague. Too often I've gone in as a homeless person comes out and it was obvious they spent the last hour bathing in the sink and clogging the toilet best they could. Who knows what diseases get spread around during one of these sessions.
Which is why the key is usually attached to a large item too big to fit in a pocket. You should know this, Mr. fish, being an ex-long hauler.
At my ophthalmologist office, the facility is on the same floor as but separate from the office. The key is attached to a pair of glasses. Now, that, I think could pose a problem with people having to be reminded to bring back the key.
As for using the rest room in a place that serves food, once, when having appeared in a performance with several other actors, we were on the road home and the lead car pulled into a Mickey D's parking lot. We all followed, not knowing if there was a problem with his car. He told us his car was fine but he needed to use the rest room. There followed a big discussion about using the rest room without making a purchase. His rebuttal was that he had often been in a Mickey D's, made a purchase and DIDN'T use the rest room so this was a "make-up visit".
I have to admit, he had a point.
Yes; those keys are usually attached to a dirty old board or something that looks like a serious health problem. Many of us would never take the key on purpose because we did not want to infect our whole neighborhood! We should have had rubber gloves on to touch that key.
Yes; your friend had a point! Actually my wife always liked to stop at hospitals to use the facilities - they were cleaner than the rest areas!
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I was surprised to find last month that in New Orleans, some businesses charge a quarter to open the door (not the stall,
the door to the entire restroom). It was amazing how many fairly wealthy looking people didn't have a quarter.
As for using the rest room in a place that serves food, once, when having appeared in a performance with several other actors, we were on the road home and the lead car pulled into a Mickey D's parking lot. We all followed, not knowing if there was a problem with his car. He told us his car was fine but he needed to use the rest room. There followed a big discussion about using the rest room without making a purchase. His rebuttal was that he had often been in a Mickey D's, made a purchase and DIDN'T use the rest room so this was a "make-up visit".t.
They gave him grief over needing to take a pee?
What did they want him to do, pee on the side of the road?
I wouldn't want to hang out with these people any more. Too uptight.
Starbucks set themselves up as the place to go and hang out for hours... then decided that they didn't really want people to hang out for hours. Unless you were one of the handful of 'visual shills' who projected just the right image and ambience and didn't smell bad.
People are always surprised when the fuzzy, warm, yay-little-people, solidarity corporations like Starbucks, Disney, Apple et al. turn out to be... corporations.
It seems that in this case, at least, extreme liberalism just met reality.
One of the national brands soup and sandwich places open a restaurant in Portland, and set a "pay what you think it is worth" policy. In theory, if a customer was wealthy, they would voluntarily pay more. Poor people could eat and pay less. The policy In the area where a lot of homeless hang out. They didn't keep it up for long.
But back on topic, it costs serious money to maintain a public restroom. Cleaning, maintenance, paper goods, it all costs a lot. An occasional non-paying drop-in is one thing. They might become a customer. But to be used as the regular maintenance, shoot up, nap time place for the local homeless is what the problem is.
I've been in the lady's room at Safeway and a homeless woman was sound asleep on the floor of the handicapped stall. The restroom is there as a convenience for paying customers, not a free hotel for vagrants.
As I was leaving, the safeway sleeper was outside, very angry. Talking loudly to herself about canibals and their canibal children. Really, not what a store needs........ and really off topic, the woman was so obviously out of control crazy, society really should figure out what to do about those who are crazy to that degree.
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