{"id":45104,"date":"2022-06-10T16:38:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T16:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/starbucks-may-close-its-bathrooms-to-the-public-again\/"},"modified":"2022-06-10T16:38:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T16:38:33","slug":"starbucks-may-close-its-bathrooms-to-the-public-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/starbucks-may-close-its-bathrooms-to-the-public-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Starbucks may close its bathrooms to the public again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_C026D7A3-E335-8FE8-57C5-4D54891DFE3D\">The coffee company opened its bathrooms to the public in 2018 after two Black men were denied use of the bathroom in a Philadelphia Starbucks while they were waiting for a friend to arrive.  When they then sat down in the store without ordering anything, a Starbucks employee called the police, and they were arrested for trespassing.  No charges were ever filed.<\/div>\n<div data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_5DA3CB62-332B-9B3F-47DE-4D54891F5DB2\">But Schultz said at a New York Times DealBook conference in Washington, DC, Thursday, that the company may have to change its policy once again. <\/div>\n<p>He said that a growing mental health problem was posing a threat to staff and customers and making it difficult for Starbucks employees to manage its stores with the current policy in place.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;We have to harden our stores and provide safety for our people,&#8221; the Times quoted Schultz as saying at the conference.  &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if we can keep our bathrooms open.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Schultz said in 2018, when he was the company&#8217;s executive chairman, that opening bathrooms to anyone who asked was the right decision because of the implicit bias that occurred when they are denied access to the bathrooms.<\/p>\n<div class=\"el__embedded el__embedded--standard\">\n<div class=\"el__storyelement--standard el__article--embed\">\n<div class=\"el__article--teaseimage\"><noscript><img alt=\"Believe it or not, gas station bathrooms used to be squeaky clean.  Here &#038; # 39; s what changed. \" class=\"media__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/220603154411-01-gas-station-bathrooms-history-large-169.jpg?ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t want anyone at Starbucks to feel as if we are not giving access to you to the bathroom because you are less than. We want you to be more than,&#8221; Schultz said at that time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\" data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_A65DF735-C5A3-620D-BE65-4D5489228155\">Schultz recently returned to run the retailer as interim CEO, and he has been contending with growing angst among employees.  The company is facing a union organizing drive among its store employees.  Although the union has won votes at only a small fraction of the company&#8217;s 9,000 US stores, it has been achieving overwhelming success in the votes held so far. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coffee company opened its bathrooms to the public in 2018 after two Black men were denied use of the bathroom in a Philadelphia Starbucks while they were waiting for a friend to arrive. When they then sat down in the store without ordering anything, a Starbucks employee called the police, and they were arrested &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/starbucks-may-close-its-bathrooms-to-the-public-again\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Starbucks may close its bathrooms to the public again<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[8],"tags":[6408,19868],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/220610123121-01-howard-schultz-super-tease.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}