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I'm betting Starbucks employees who have to go in and clean the bathrooms up every day, every hour after the homeless, taggers, and vandals come out won't be rejoicing so much though. But you're right. Homeless will be lined up waiting for their turns.
The Starbucks near me have never had bathroom doors with codes on them.
Anyone can go use one. That said, we are not known for a large homeless population here in the suburbs.
They don't need locked bathrooms in the suburbs for the reason you state. They do, or did need them in big cities. I doubt if they have changed their policy, that it will be sustainable as it will kill their business. Starbucks exists solely to make money for its share holders, nothing more. If management, and/or the Board of Directors is doing something other than that, then they are not adhering to their Fiduciary Responsibility to the share holders.
The Starbucks near me have never had bathroom doors with codes on them.
Anyone can go use one. That said, we are not known for a large homeless population here in the suburbs.
Obviously you're in an area where you don't have the large volume of homelessness, vandals, taggers, etc.
You'll know you're there if you go in and see a tagged urinal, feces smeared on the walls, mirror, sink, toilet completely clogged up, buttwipe roll completely drenched in urine, and whatever else.
I dumped Starbucks as customer long ago, so makes no difference to me, but let them get taken over by homeless. It's their company, they can wreck it anyway they like.
Obviously you're in an area where you don't have the large volume of homelessness, vandals, taggers, etc.
You'll know you're there if you go in and see a tagged urinal, feces smeared on the walls, mirror, sink, toilet completely clogged up, buttwipe roll completely drenched in urine, and whatever else.
Yeah... I have seen such things in larger cities.
I know they are doing PR damage control, but it would have made way more sense to adopt a policy that bathrooms are for paying customers only, unless there is a dire emergency, and stick to that policy.
People can easily buy something cheap (bottle of water or juice, pack of gum, a single biscotti) to get to use the facilities.
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The Starbucks I go to on the weekends actually has a good amount of homeless people hanging out around it, and fairly often even hangout out inside it. It's not really that bad.
I would change coffee shops immediately. Flea-bitten bums don't belong with regular people
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