Starbucks May Re-Close , Its Bathrooms to the Public, Says CEO Howard Schultz.
Starbucks May Re-Close , Its Bathrooms to the Public, Says CEO Howard Schultz.
Schultz made the comments at a conference in Washington, D.C., on June 9.
According to the Starbucks founder, store managers have difficulty maintaining the current policy.
We have to harden our stores and provide safety for our people, Howard Schultz, Starbucks CEO, via CNN.
I don’t know if we can keep our bathrooms open, Howard Schultz, Starbucks CEO, via CNN.
The Starbucks bathroom policy has been a contentious issue for the company.
In 2018, a Starbucks employees refused access to the store bathroom to two Black customers.
The event caused public outrage, and Starbucks held racial bias training at all of its stores across the country.
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Schultz stated that the decision to open Starbucks bathrooms to the public was the correct one to make in 2018.
We don’t want anyone at Starbucks to feel as if we are not giving access to you to the bathroom because you are less than.
, Howard Schultz, Starbucks CEO, via CNN.
We want you to be more than, Howard Schultz, Starbucks CEO, via CNN.
Schultz is acting as the interim CEO in the wake of former CEO Kevin Johnson's decision to step down.
Starbucks is facing unionization campaigns at stores all over the U.S. Of the stores where employees elect to hold a union vote, almost all of them have chosen to unionize
