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I am not surprised there have been copycat incidents in other cities. In Portland, an African American was refused service when she entered a bakery AFTER it had closed. She made a video and accused the bakery of "racism." Instead of standing their ground, the owners of the bakery fired the employees and apologized.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/201..._time.html

It's not hard to figure out that this stuff is being done on purpose. Politics is all about shit-testing as well.

https://quillette.com/2018/06/05/portlan...ns-batter/

It turns out the owners of the bakery are gay. So, this is another example of the left eating their own. That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if conservative Christians caved on something like this as well.

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(06-14-2018 07:19 AM)puckerman Wrote:  I am not surprised there have been copycat incidents in other cities. In Portland, an African American was refused service when she entered a bakery AFTER it had closed. She made a video and accused the bakery of "racism." Instead of standing their ground, the owners of the bakery fired the employees and apologized.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/201..._time.html

It's not hard to figure out that this stuff is being done on purpose. Politics is all about shit-testing as well.

https://quillette.com/2018/06/05/portlan...ns-batter/

It turns out the owners of the bakery are gay. So, this is another example of the left eating their own. That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if conservative Christians caved on something like this as well.

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The Quilette article was written by a guy named Andy Ngo and is one of the best things I've read in recent memory. It's massively long, and takes a long time to read, but it's worth it.

He goes into excruciating detail explaining how this black woman drummed up trouble and how the cowardly (and gay) bakery owners instantly capitulated to her demands, throwing employees they knew were innocent under the bus.

What's ironic about this is that the owners don't see how accusations of racism today are like accusations of being gay were in the 1950s: Radioactive. The accusations don't even have to be true to ruin your life. You'd think they'd see the larger picture, but apparently not.

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Thought:

Isn't just a SLIGHTLY odd coincidence this all goes down right about the time that people are talking about the dems running Schultz in 2020?

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Andy Ngo has been doing some good reporting out of Portland for a bit now. A name to keep track of for sure.

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related:

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You know, this just shows how powerful a word is when included in a headline. If the article simply read "Two men arrested in Starbucks," the agenda would be a lot more neutral, but just including "Black" was enough to give it special privilege. An observation more than anything about the way the world works.

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Quote: Starbucks’ new bathroom policy not working out as hoped

However, it is working out as expected.

It has been 7 months since the famous purveyor of caffeinated confection, Starbucks, declared their bathrooms “open to the public” without the need to purchase their products.

Data suggests that the virtue signaling isn’t working out as well as hoped by the corporate leaders. A New York Post team investigated several Manhattan bathrooms and found that there wasn’t an open stall.

…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.

“Letting everybody in has resulted in nobody getting in,” an employee at one branch fumed.

“Rest Room closed,” declared signs at 399 Seventh Ave. (entrance on West 32nd Street) and at a branch at Pearl Street and Maiden Lane. 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.

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.

Why would the bathrooms need “prolonged cleaning”? Perhaps the experience of the Seattle shops provides an explanation:

Several Starbucks workers in Seattle say that they’re encountering hypodermic needles on the job nearly every day and that they’ve had to take antiviral medications to protect themselves from HIV and hepatitis.

Three employees at the coffee giant in northern Seattle told the local news station KIRO 7 that visitors would dispose of the needles in store restrooms, often in tampon-disposal boxes, and that workers would then come in contact with them while cleaning and were sometimes accidentally poked.

KIRO 7 said the three employees provided hospital, pharmacy, and insurance receipts showing that they took antiviral medications to protect against HIV and hepatitis after being poked by needles at work.

Providing extra safety training and prophylactic care for employees can be expensive. The extra costs could have been a contributing factor in a spate of recent layoffs.

Starbucks will lay off 350 corporate employees amid a broader effort to revamp its global operations even as the coffeehouse chain’s former top executive gears up for a 2020 presidential bid.

Chief Executive Officer Kevin Johnson announced the 5 percent reduction of Starbucks’ global workforce in a staff email on Tuesday, writing that the layoffs are “a result of work that has been eliminated, de-prioritized or shifting ways of working within the company.”

The best lesson to be had here may be not to let anything other than profit and customer satisfaction drive your business decisions.

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I live in a large city on the East Coast and my experience with Starbucks is that they are very generous - in a city where restaurants typically have a “bathroom for customers only” sign. I’ve seen SB give free cups of water to students and homeless. There was even a SB near a large tourist attraction that had more European tourists waiting to use the pisser than customers buying stuff.

Given, as other posters mentioned, that a lot of “customers” in SB milk a single coffee all day while mooching free internet and taking up space, I suspect these two dudes in the article must have done something very ostentatious and belligerent. Yes, being gracious with the bathroom is the decent thing to do and is good business. However, being beligerent and adding stress to the SB worker’s shift is not excusable and the manager was right to call the cops.

All that said, I’m not surprised about the SB CEO issuing his cuck-o-gram apology.

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The Federal government has ordered Starbucks to install needle-disposal boxes for worker safety due to all the homeless people that the chain allows to loiter in stores without buying anything.

Quote:Starbucks' efforts to address opioid use and improperly disposed needles in its bathrooms are expanding.

Starbucks stores in at least 25 US markets have installed needle-disposal boxes in bathrooms in recent months. By this summer, the chain aims to have installed sharps boxes in bathrooms in all regions where such action has been deemed necessary.

The coffee giant also allows local district managers or store managers to put in requests to have sharps-disposal boxes installed in their locations' bathrooms.

"We are always working and listening to our partners on ways we can better support them when it comes to issues like these," Reggie Borges, a Starbucks representative, said in an email to Business Insider.

Starbucks has been testing solutions in recent months as workers' safety concerns have mounted, with thousands of employees signing a petition calling for Starbucks to place needle-disposal boxes in high-risk bathrooms.

https://www.businessinsider.com/starbuck...019-4?IR=T

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Already installed in my town, been here a couple of weeks.

There is also a list of suggestions on how to be a good citizen on the bathroom doors.

I bet it is pretty fun to see that list on your way in to dumping all your clothes in the toilet and flushing.

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(12-15-2018 08:58 PM)CaptainCup Wrote:  I live in a large city on the East Coast and my experience with Starbucks is that they are very generous - in a city where restaurants typically have a “bathroom for customers only” sign. I’ve seen SB give free cups of water to students and homeless. There was even a SB near a large tourist attraction that had more European tourists waiting to use the pisser than customers buying stuff.

Given, as other posters mentioned, that a lot of “customers” in SB milk a single coffee all day while mooching free internet and taking up space, I suspect these two dudes in the article must have done something very ostentatious and belligerent. Yes, being gracious with the bathroom is the decent thing to do and is good business. However, being beligerent and adding stress to the SB worker’s shift is not excusable and the manager was right to call the cops.

All that said, I’m not surprised about the SB CEO issuing his cuck-o-gram apology.

Yeah, and it has always been like that. In that respect, Starbucks has been pretty cool informally. Now that it is a rule, there is less disgression, therefore chaos.

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(04-22-2019 05:22 PM)debeguiled Wrote:  Already installed in my town, been here a couple of weeks.

There is also a list of suggestions on how to be a good citizen on the bathroom doors.

I bet it is pretty fun to see that list on your way in to dumping all your clothes in the toilet and flushing.

Must not be in the burbs, I haven't seen anything like that and coffee gives me IBS so I'd know.

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Quote:Starbucks has been testing solutions in recent months as workers' safety concerns have mounted, with thousands of employees signing a petition calling for Starbucks to place needle-disposal boxes in high-risk bathrooms.

You know you’re in Clown World when the simple, cheap, and effective solution (locking bathrooms and only allowing vetted customers to use) is forgone for the indirect, costly, and questionable solution (installing needle boxes). There’s also a rather big assumption that someone strung out on heroin is going to give a damn about proper needle disposal.

This is another example of the leftist SJW’s completely ass-backwards thinking:

A truly social phenomenon (e.g. problems resulting from drug addiction and homelessness) is seen as an immutable force like Mother Nature. At the same time, truly biological and natural phenomena (e.g. gender and sexuality) are seen as fluid social constructs.