No, some years ago there was a black guy waiting for someone in a Starbucks and they kicked him out. Corporate was pissed because it was clearly a racist employee. In response, they literally closed every Starbucks in the entire country for one day and had all of their employees attend mandatory racism trainings.
And they established a rule that none of their stores were allowed to deny access to bathrooms to the public. I was living in a car at that time, and it was awesome. Sad to see they’re going back on it :(
Perhaps that’s when it was officially codified, but it certainly has been at least an unofficial policy since way before then. I used to know people back in the day that would literally spend all day at Starbucks, sitting on their laptop using the wifi.
I kind of thought this was the policy in the first place…
No, some years ago there was a black guy waiting for someone in a Starbucks and they kicked him out. Corporate was pissed because it was clearly a racist employee. In response, they literally closed every Starbucks in the entire country for one day and had all of their employees attend mandatory racism trainings.
And they established a rule that none of their stores were allowed to deny access to bathrooms to the public. I was living in a car at that time, and it was awesome. Sad to see they’re going back on it :(
This has been a very long-standing policy of theirs going back to when they were a little company in Seattle.
But capitalism takes away any possible benevolence.
According to the article, the open door policy was established in 2018.
Perhaps that’s when it was officially codified, but it certainly has been at least an unofficial policy since way before then. I used to know people back in the day that would literally spend all day at Starbucks, sitting on their laptop using the wifi.