Starbucks - no thanks!

[Anonymous]

Just went to pick up a "contactless" Starbucks coffee for the first time since March. Not doing that again soon! The place was packed with people placing in-person orders, so that social distancing could not be maintained. The barista's mask was hanging below his nose. Some dude was sitting unmasked at a table, just reading the paper, not even drinking coffee or eating. Their system for "contactless" ordering over the app is inefficient and confusing, and means you have to go into the shop and wait by a bunch of people to see if your drink is ready, then get the barista to hand it to you.

Starbucks, do better.

[Anonymous]

Which starbucks? Call the health commissioner

[Anonymous]

Yeah, that is not standard. The Starbucks I have been too have been very health standards cautious.

[Anonymous]

Do they at least have plexiglass partitions?

I get skeeved out at coffee places like Starbucks b/c the baristas always put their hands on the plastic drink cover - right where your lips would go to drink. Yes, I know they're not the ones handling money or otherwise touching dirty things, but it's still kinda ewww.

[Anonymous]

Where is this? FL? Midwest? GA?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where is this? FL? Midwest? GA?

It's the House-side Starbucks right next to the US Capitol on Penn Se, full of potential COVID cases from the Hill offices.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do they at least have plexiglass partitions?

I get skeeved out at coffee places like Starbucks b/c the baristas always put their hands on the plastic drink cover - right where your lips would go to drink. Yes, I know they're not the ones handling money or otherwise touching dirty things, but it's still kinda ewww.

There was plexiglass on the counter where they hand you the pre-ordered drinks, but it's a joke, since there's no plexiglass around the rest of the counter, and a ton of people inside.

[Anonymous]

Then don't go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Then don't go.

I'm not going to go, but it makes me mad that my kid's school is closed, while neighborhood businesses are allowed to go about their merry way importing covid into the neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

My Starbucks hasn't been like that at all, but if you're concerned, just don't go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My Starbucks hasn't been like that at all, but if you're concerned, just don't go.

I guess I just don't understand why they are even allowing customers to sit down, and why they aren't leveraging the app ordering to reduce people inside the shop. In the past, they just set out your drink on the counter and you could grab it. Now you have to go in, get the Barista's attention, and wait for your drink to be ready or for them to hand it to you. That seems to negate the whole point of "contactless" ordering. Also Starbucks has plenty of $$ and could easily have installed a window.

[Anonymous]

I usually hate going to Starbucks but have found it dead quiet these days. Order in advance and go pick up the drinks -- I'm usually the only one there. When there have been a few others everyone is spaced out.

[Anonymous]

That's not the norm, the I frequent 2 different locations and I've felt very safe with practices in place and my experience, and I am paranoid!

I would call that Starbucks and ask to speak to manager, and/or report them.

[Anonymous]

Call and file a complaint. Simply "not going" is not going to help with community spread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Then don't go.

I'm not going to go, but it makes me mad that my kid's school is closed, while neighborhood businesses are allowed to go about their merry way importing covid into the neighborhood.

Yea, fire all those hourly wage earners. Karening intensifies.