Starbucks is about to make visitors buy something to use the bathroom or get free water. Some workers say the plans might not ...
It’s the end of free bathrooms—and of a particular fantasy.
The coffee chain giant now requires purchases to hang out or use the restroom. Customers can get free refills on drinks.
Starbucks ended a 7-year-old policy that invited anyone to hang out in its stores or use its restrooms, regardless of whether ...
As of Monday, Jan 27, bathrooms inside Starbucks and free water cups will be available to paying customers only, a policy ...
A Starbucks employee said the chain held training on how to handle customers asking to use the restroom or sit in the store ...
Also like (most) Starbucks, it has a bathroom, open to anyone who walks in. The bathroom is important because this Starbucks is located about three-quarters of a mile past Peace Arch, the busiest ...
A while ago, Elizabeth Yuko of Bloomberg CityLab wrote what has to be the definitive history, going back as far as 1870, when New York installed the first public bathroom in the city: “an above-ground ...
Starbucks opened the can when it said last week it was reversing a 7-year-old policy that invited anyone to hang out in its ...