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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait, so you should be able to sit and "work" there for hours but no one else should?

I personally think 20-30 min limit for everyone at a coffee shop is very reasonable. [/quote]

I'm buying stuff. If they want to enforce 20-30 minutes for paying customers, fine, but would result in lost business not only from people who work from these spots, but also (for example) friends wanting to meet up for coffee. Most of those meetups would be more like an hour, not 20 minutes. [/quote]

So you think your $5 latte entitles you take up their space for an entire day? And you don't see a problem with that. If you need to work, go rent a place, go to the library, work from home. Starbucks is a business. They need to turn tables and sell products. I would love if they enforced the 20-30 min limit on everyone. [/quote]

First off, "$5 latte", you clearly haven't been to Starbucks since 2013. I don't work there the entire day. It's a couple hours. And clearly, Starbucks does not see a problem with that. I don't see them setting time limits or banning anyone who actually is buying things. [/quote]

I guess they do with this new policy. Kudos to them. [/quote]

It applies to people who aren't buying anything. Can you read?[/quote]

OK so you plan to buy something every 30 min? Great. [/quote]

The policy does not require this but also I would be find buying things while I sit there, in fact I already do this because if I finish my drink but am still working I will usually order another or get something to eat.

I know you've made hating people who work at coffee shops like 20% of your personality but fortunately Starbucks loves people who work at coffee shops and people who work at coffee shops love Starbucks. It's a deeply symbiotic relationship and you can't break us up.[/quote]

DP. What makes you think Starbucks loves  you?  Maybe the barista who you tipped generously but your one drink and maybe a pastry for hours of internet, using their toilet and taking up a table for two is not in their interest. [/quote]

Well I know Starbucks loves me because they are a corporate entity that exists for the sole purpose of making money and I give them lots of my money in exchange for consumables and a place to sit and work for hours.

But also the manager at my regular Starbucks definitely likes me and always brings me and other regulars samples of stuff and we've had conversations about how it's a particularly nice Starbucks and also how corporate needs to send someone to fix automatic faucet in one of the bathrooms because it sprays water too hard and it hits the sink at a wrong angle and sprays water all over the bathroom. Those of us in the know use the other bathroom to avoid this which also saves the manager the trouble of having to mop down that bathroom again. Come on, Corporate! Fix the sink.

xoxo[/quote]

You're just....like so special...and everyone LOVES you...[/quote]

Omg you feel jealous of a corporation. [/quote]

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