re: Starbucks visitors arrested in the City of Brotherly Love

They finda get paid. A small sum, but nevertheless.

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I support any move my private business.

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Including Facebook, right?
By the way the white guy in the video was meeting them there to buy them coffee and discuss real estate. They were released because there was insufficient evidence to press charges.

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Wasn't it Starbucks that refused to let a policeman use the men's room because he made no purchase? Something about store policy...

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No. Cops come over to my Starbucks all the time and use the bathroom.

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My son started playing K-1st grade last year. There are well over 150 people there to watch the kids play pee-wee flag football

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Sad if true.

If the Blacks were Whites they wouldn’t have to buy anything or be arrested

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1. Your kitchen doesn't have arabica espresso.
2. Your kitchen doesn't have oatmeal with dried fruit and vanilla.
3. Your kitchen doesn't have my 2 buddies as we discuss the politics of the day before heading to the gym.
4. Your kitchen isn't 100 yards away from my gym.
5. A quad is $3, not $4.

I drank 50 cent coffee when I was a teen. Then I got a job and moved up.

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However you want to justify it Hoss.

Wanna know the best cup of coffee I've had this year?

The one brewed in the 1950's vintage perculator we inherented from my wife's aunt.

It was brewed on the stove of our Airstream as I watched the sunrise over Capital Reef National Park.

I'd rather take the dollars I could send on "fancy" coffee and put them towards things and experiences that will last me more than 20 mins.

300 cups of $3 coffee is $900 a year (before taxes and tips). Where could you go for $900? What could you see and experience? If coffee is that for you, awesome. I'll make other choices.

Black people commit the majority of violent crime in this country. Until that is corrected stuff like this will continue to happen. Sorry but until the crime statistics come down can you really fault them for this? That’s what drives the majority of these cop/minority situations. They see so much bs that it’s hard to ignore it

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just makes no sense.

If someone says, it is our policy that you buy something before we let you use the restroom, you buy a $2 small coffee and then go piss. They just don’t want homeless people taking their morning shits in the bathroom.

Why does it matter if they’re waiting on a friend? Do you have to synchronize your coffee buying? He was clearly minutes away. Your coffee will still be hot.

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As usual - neither side handled this well.

Store could’ve easily said “oh, cool- your friends coming... settle in for a minute, no problem”

Once the low wage, low training barista flubbed that it would’ve been incredibly easy to say “oh, yea, I get it- here I’ll buy a coffee while I wait since I’m ordering one any minute now anyway”

These things tend not to spiral if someone in either side is reasonable. 90% of the time it’s no problem if I sit for a minute or use the restroom before ordering but on the off times when the barista/bartender/cashier cant allow that I can normally remedy the situation without police

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Starbucks visitors

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Loitering in restaurants has been a no no for a very long time.

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Hospitality in customer service isn’t some crazy expectation. Starbucks would much rather a few guys use the restroom without ordering coffee than have this in the news.

If this location is overrun by homeless folks setting up shop than so be it - you get a bit stricter but generally speaking “oh yea, no worries- can I get you anything while you wait” goes over much better than “gtfo or I’m calling the cops”

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300 cups of $3 coffee is $900 a year (before taxes and tips). Where could you go for $900?

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$900?? I spend over 3K a year at SB between daily coffee, oatmeal and gift cards for my son and his wife.

Lemme splain why it's justified. The difference in taste between what you make in your grandma's machine and SB arabica through an industrial espresso machine to me is like the difference between beer and motor oil to you.

I can't tell expensive wine from cheap wine. So it would be stupid for me to buy expensive wine. But I can tell arabica espresso from SB and arabica espresso from Joe Muggs (Book A Million shop).

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Where could you go for $900? What could you see and experience?

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I can't go anywhere and I can't experience anything. 20 years ago the wife said she can't enjoy traveling because she worries about the dogs. So, we don't travel.

But I'm not advising you to switch to SB. If you can't tell the difference between what you brew and espresso then it would be stupid for you to pay more money for SB.