Store employees must wear khaki pants and a clean, professional, solid red shirt with a collar. In cooler weather, employees may also wear a red sweater or coat.
Store employees are not allowed to wear:
visible tattoos body piercing tongue posts unnatural colored hair open toe shoes torn or faded clothing
May 19, 2025, 07:14 AM
vthoky
I have several thoughts on this; probably none of them matter.
1. Target does the same thing, don't they? Red shirts and tan pants. Do we hear the Target employees threatening a strike?
2. Black shirt and tan/blue/black pants? That's not horrible.
3. Expensive coffee is a luxury item. People who work for expensive-coffee stores should be glad their jobs even exist, otherwise they might be doing less-desirable jobs (or simply not having jobs to go to).
4. It could be way more restrictive, as in egregore's post about Buc-ees, above.
God bless America.
May 19, 2025, 07:40 AM
Patrick-SP2022
From the AP article.
quote:
“Starbucks has lost its way. Instead of listening to baristas who make the Starbucks experience what it is, they are focused on all the wrong things, like implementing a restrictive new dress code,” said Paige Summers, a Starbucks shift supervisor from Hanover, Maryland. “Customers don’t care what color our clothes are when they’re waiting 30 minutes for a latte.”
I do not drink starbucks anymore, but if I had to wait 30 minutes to get a cup of coffee, I would be going someplace else.
May 19, 2025, 08:20 AM
mrvmax
quote:
Originally posted by Patrick-SP2022: From the AP article.
quote:
“Starbucks has lost its way. Instead of listening to baristas who make the Starbucks experience what it is, they are focused on all the wrong things, like implementing a restrictive new dress code,” said Paige Summers, a Starbucks shift supervisor from Hanover, Maryland. “Customers don’t care what color our clothes are when they’re waiting 30 minutes for a latte.”
I do not drink starbucks anymore, but if I had to wait 30 minutes to get a cup of coffee, I would be going someplace else.
The easy solution is to fire them, adhere to dress code or go make coffee elsewhere. Why is it that the freaks tend to work at coffee shops? Multi colored hair, piercings, wierd hair, guys painting their finger nails etc. Maybe it is just the way young people are, but I never see people like that at other places I go.
I will say that there is no shortage of people in my area who will wait in line for $5 coffee. I think in the last year I can count about 7-10 different coffee shops that have opened on my derive to work (about 24 miles).
May 19, 2025, 08:45 AM
V-Tail
I'm just wondering how many of you buy coffee at a coffee shop. I really prefer the coffee at home; we use Costco's Kirkland Signature Keurig K-Cups, the Pacific Bold variety (it's re-branded Green Mountain). I stock up when it's on sale, so my cost is 25¢ / cup.
I really do not understand paying several dollars for a cup of lesser quality (my opinion) coffee at places like Starbucks, Panera, etc.
The rare occasion that I buy coffee when I'm out, I'll look for McDonald's. They actually sell a premium coffee. And they have a senior discount.
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May 19, 2025, 09:28 AM
smschulz
Employees have no rights to say what they will wear. All who participated in this madness should be fired. As a young lad working in a grocery store in HS, we were required to wear slack, no tennies, a white shirt and tie and we did everything required including stocking, sacking, checking, cleaning up and stocking shelves. No one ever complained ~ we were employees not employers.
May 19, 2025, 09:29 AM
Rick Lee
I go to Starbucks every day when I'm on a business trip. I love my coffee at home more, but I can't take it with me. I really hate most diner and restaurant coffee. It's so weak. Starbucks is overpriced, but it's usually the strength I make at home, so I'll pay what they want when I'm on the road.
May 19, 2025, 10:08 AM
HRK
They have no say, SB wants you in a white shirt and black pants, that's what you wear or go start your own Coffee mega company and set your own rules
Coffee out can be a treat, or, if on the road, in an Airport, occasionally we'll hit Startbutts for a cold ice coffee frappamochallattechino thing for the wife, soy milk, no whip....
Don't make those at home, mostly she's K cupping in the AM, have to admit a mochafrappachino thing is good in the summer...
May 19, 2025, 10:21 AM
LS1 GTO
quote:
Originally posted by mrvmax:
quote:
Originally posted by Patrick-SP2022: From the AP article.
quote:
“Starbucks has lost its way. Instead of listening to baristas who make the Starbucks experience what it is, they are focused on all the wrong things, like implementing a restrictive new dress code,” said Paige Summers, a Starbucks shift supervisor from Hanover, Maryland. “Customers don’t care what color our clothes are when they’re waiting 30 minutes for a latte.”
I do not drink starbucks anymore, but if I had to wait 30 minutes to get a cup of coffee, I would be going someplace else.
The easy solution is to fire them, adhere to dress code or go make coffee elsewhere. ...
Well, to the first quote, "waat what? the corporation is listening to the customer?? Say it ain't so..."
So I do believe there might be a problem about firing unionized employees (which has occurred as come locations) because the company changed dress code (for reasons other than safety or health, etc.) after the employee(s) has/have been hired and worked to an established dress code...
Better solution; as I believe these are franchises, disenfranchise those locations.
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May 19, 2025, 10:45 AM
mark60
The only time I drink Starbucks is on the road or in an airport when I have no other choice, I think their coffee sucks. The spoiled brats should all go work somewhere else where they can "express" themselves at work. They work in a service industry and should dress accordingly. Not to mention, as a customer, it should be fairly easy to identify an employee in a business and differentiate them from a customer.
May 19, 2025, 10:52 AM
CPD SIG
I’ll go to Starbucks occasionally. I have the Kureg at work with some good selections. I have some good coffee at home as well.
The times that I do go into one, I usually find whoever is behind the counter looks more like a circus freak rather than someone that should work for an international corporation as a front line worker. Granted, I see more of the freak show in larger cities than in more rural places.
Starbucks listening to those morons would be corporate suicide. Half of them don’t know which bathroom to use or what sex they are. And a company would listen to that? Starbucks would have a litter box in the corner for something that identifies as a cat.
Ya can’t wear our corporate approved uniform? Good bye.
And there is no way on Gods green earth, that Im waiting more than 15 minutes for a cup of coffee with a little bit of cream. Give me my money back and Im out.
Hopefully the uniform includes no cat/dog collars. The seldom times I go in there with my sons, I usually say to them “Well, there’s your competition in life, Im pretty sure you’re gonna beat that.”This message has been edited. Last edited by: CPD SIG, May 19, 2025 05:43 PM
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May 19, 2025, 11:38 AM
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May 19, 2025, 11:44 AM
Expert308
I'm surprised nobody has posted the "Well... Bye!" meme yet. I don't have a copy of it.
May 19, 2025, 12:10 PM
sigmonkey
quote:
Originally posted by Expert308:
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May 19, 2025, 12:29 PM
Prefontaine
quote:
Originally posted by Patrick-SP2022: I do not drink starbucks anymore, but if I had to wait 30 minutes to get a cup of coffee, I would be going someplace else.
I’ve never understood the fascination. Step 1, insert coffee paper thing into coffee maker. Step 2, put coffee grounds into paper thing. Step 3, pour in desired water in ounces. Step 4, press start. I can literally make an entire pot, of excellent coffee (go as bougie as you desire) in less than 10 minutes.
At this point I’m surprised there isn’t a “Door Wipe” service or app. You go into your bathroom to take a shit. While taking shit open the Wipe app. By the time you’re done with your deuce the door bell rings and the person has a code to enter your domicile at which point they come into your bathroom and wipe your ass for you. Our society is just ridiculous.
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May 19, 2025, 02:47 PM
vthoky
How is it that coffee-pourers have/need a union?
(Said the guy who grew up in a coal-mining area....)
God bless America.
May 19, 2025, 05:01 PM
LS1 GTO
quote:
Originally posted by vthoky: How is it that coffee-pourers have/need a union?
(Said the guy who grew up in a coal-mining area....)
Cause they don't get paid enough and Starbucks doesn't give them enough benefits?
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