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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 am again reminded of why I don't live in a big city.
It's just nice knowing homeless people will have a place to when it gets cold outside. The government won't let them hang out in public libraries. Good Job Starbucks!
Where I work, our bathrooms are available for anyone who walks in the door. We have a homeless guy who stands outside all day long, and he occasionally comes in and uses it........no problem. Homeless people are just like you and me, except life has not been as good to them.
Why isn't your boss offering him a job? He can at least take out trash and clean/sweep floors, etc.
It's just nice knowing homeless people will have a place to when it gets cold outside. The government won't let them hang out in public libraries. Good Job Starbucks!
Wait until the drug needles start to pile up around the front of the store.
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.
I pretty much kicked the habit too about 2 months ago. My reasons were I knew all the milk, sugar, high fructose corn syrup isn't that great for one's health, and I really got tired of standing next to the register waiting to place my order while 10 or more cell app orders came in. They place the app orders priority most, if not all of the time.
Every great once in a while I may get nostalgic and say what the hay and get one, but that will be once in every 2 to 3 blue moons.
Where I work, our bathrooms are available for anyone who walks in the door. We have a homeless guy who stands outside all day long, and he occasionally comes in and uses it........no problem. Homeless people are just like you and me, except life has not been as good to them.
One or two you can handle. Make it a hundred and get back to me. You'd have no choice but to lock your bathroom door. When you see your cash register receipts down 80%, you wouldn't be saying "homeless people are just like you and me"
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.
Well, San Fran is sort of heading in the right direction by putting in more public bathrooms. One thing for sure, if and when I'm ever going up to the city (San Fran) I make sure I've already have gone to the bathroom or plan on going directly to a destination that has a bathroom I can use. I can't count how many times I've driven up there over the past 20+ years and have to use the can so bad but can't find a restroom. So to the people living on the streets up there, it's got to be terrible having to go but not being able to find a legit restroom to use. And that's primarily the issue with Starbucks and their restrooms. There's virtually a Starbucks with a bathroom on nearly every other block up there and it's hard for someone that needs to go and knowing there's one there, not to be able to use it. To put it into perspective, I know of about 5 McDonald locations throughout San Francisco. But I also know about 20 Starbuck's locations throughout San Francisco. At one time, McDonalds had the most locations of any chain restaurant. Starbucks holds that title now, ten fold too.
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