Starbucks Is Changing Its Restroom Policy, FYI

After that whole Philly Starbucks debacle, the company made some key changes regarding its bathroom policy.

It’s now embracing an “open-restroom policy.”

I’m sure that’ll work out nicely for the company. NOT.

Chairman Howard Schultz says he doesn’t want the company to become a public restroom, but feels employees can make the “right decision a hundred percent of the time,” if that choice is removed at the store level.

I really didn’t mind Starbucks having a customer-only bathroom policy. Some Starbucks locations have trouble with the homeless population coming in and basically trashing their restrooms, so it only seemed reasonable from a business standpoint, you know?

Schultz, speaking at the Atlantic Council in Washington on Thursday, said previous policy required a purchase, but that the decision was ultimately left with store managers, The Washington, The Seattle Times, and other media outlets reported.

I don’t know about you guys, but I feel weird going into that sort of establishment and using their “resources” without purchasing something. Even if it’s a convenient store, I’ll usually buy a pack of gum or something.

This headline says a lot about their decision:

Starbucks Becomes America’s Largest Public Restroom https://t.co/kK575q3jsU

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) May 11, 2018

EW.

Welp @Starbucks you’ve chosen to put paying customers in a vulnerable spot as the homeless nationwide will take advantage of this ultimately leading to customer complaints and an eventual backtrack on the policy or risk of losing customers

— A.K. (@BTFDCGCap) May 11, 2018

Wait til all the heroin addicts realize there is a clean, quite place to shoot up. The lines will be around the block!

— #Benghazi Stacy (@Discoveringme40) May 11, 2018

That goes not together with this expensive coffee.

— Stock-Trader (@AktienTrader1) May 11, 2018

Great business model! Or not…

— 🎙🇳🇴Norway4TRUMP🇺🇸 (@Norway4Trump) May 11, 2018

@Starbucks virtue signaling is bad for business.

— Critical Thinker🇺🇸 (@xrayloco) May 11, 2018

Addicts and homeless rejoice.

— Shay (@DeplorableShay) May 11, 2018

I thought San Francisco was the largest public restroom.

— Chris Elmlund (@ChrisElmlund) May 11, 2018

Touché.

h/t MSN