Friday, May 25, 2018

High-Impact Business Decision

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/05/20/starbucks-policy-changes-local-reactions/

The business decision made by Starbucks has been a huge topic of controversy in latest news. Do to the unfortunate incident of two black men being arrested and escorted out of a Starbucks simply because they were sitting waiting for their friend to arrive but hadn’t ordered yet. Also, its assumed by some that the two men being African American was the main reason the cops were called. It was wrongly assumed that these men were controversial and fired the worker who made the call to the police. 

Recently Starbucks has decided to open its restrooms to the public even if a purchase isn’t made, to try and rectify the situation that occurred. This isn’t going over so well with some of the customers as well as the staff, complaints are that there are homeless people just hanging out around Starbucks and a lot of nonpaying traffic within the coffee shop is occurring, as Starbucks is a place where people like to do their work. Space in Starbucks is being taken up by nonpaying customers, which could possibly lead to paying customers taking their business elsewhere. Also, with the recent issues and now the bathroom policy not going over so well, this could lead to coffee shops such as Tim Hortons to become the front runner replacing Starbucks as number one.

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