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1. The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions -- Starbucks Edition!
Remember last spring when Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz announced shortly before departing the company that the coffee chain would allow everyone to use its rest rooms?
Remember last spring when Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz announced shortly before departing the company that the coffee chain would allow everyone to use its rest rooms?
2. Starbucks CEO declared the open-toilets policy after two black men were infamously arrested in a Philadelphia Starbucks. They asked to use the toilet and were told it was for customers only. When they sat to wait for a friend, they were handcuffed and charged with trespassing.
3. Seven months after the coffee kingdom declared its toilets open to all — no purchase necessary! — visitors who hear nature’s call are finding it isn’t always easy to lighten their loads.
4. Finding a usable Starbucks toilet in the Big Apple might actually have gotten harder since last spring’s announcement — and not just for non-customers. It’s bad news given that a 16-ounce “grande” drip coffee can contain a bladder-bursting 320 milligrams of caffeine.
5. 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.
6. “Letting everybody in has resulted in nobody getting in,” an employee at one branch fumed.
“Rest Room closed,” declared signs at 399 Seventh Ave.
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.
“Rest Room closed,” declared signs at 399 Seventh Ave.
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.
7. 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.
8. The new open-toilets rule pushed by Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz was supposed to help the chain repair the damage to its socially conscious reputation — which includes “community outreach” and a “fair trade” policy with its Third World suppliers.
9. But his former colleagues have been left with quite a mess by this good-intentioned policy.
This week Business Insider reports:
This week Business Insider reports:
10. Don't be surprised if Howard Schultz decides to run for president.
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Credits: Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Business Insider
