Reply to Is it just me or did the quality of the baristas at Starbucks take a serious nosedive?

Forum Index » Food, Cooking, and Restaurants

Reply to "Is it just me or did the quality of the baristas at Starbucks take a serious nosedive?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're expecting an awful lot out of people who aren't being paid a livable wage....[/quote] my friends 17yo daughter worked there and made $15 an hour BEFORE tips. Thats not bad money. [/quote]

$15 / hour x 30 hours* x 50 weeks is $22500 a year. Can you live here on $22500? Would you be tidy and cheerful if you did? On your feet, handling food, and dealing with the public?

*Lots of baristas don't get scheduled for 30 hours/week, I'm being generous to Starbucks here. And hardly anybody tips.

[b]There is a tremendous labor shortage right now. People who are great in customer facing positions can do better, and they have.[/b] [/quote]

I thought Starbucks was on the upper end of the service industry? If there are 380k Starbucks baristas in the US, where did say... 100k of them segue to? 100k loss is probably on the low side. And the new replacements are bad, so even would-be new Starbucks baristas are avoiding the place to work... where instead?[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics