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Originally Posted by Holger
What a mess ...
All this over not allowing non-customers to use the bathroom?
Here it is perfectly normal NOT to (be allowed to) use the bathroom if you are NOT a customer. Nobody making a fuss over that. Everyone understands that and does not bother anyone.
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It was not over the bathroom.
Starbucks bathrooms are regularly restricted to paying customers only.
It was about them being asked to leave for no apparent reason then being trespassed.
It goes against the very culture that is at the core of coffee shops including Starbucks, come in, hang out, you are welcome even if you don't buy.
Last time I was in a Starbucks, because it was my only choice, half the people, college town, were non paying customers just hanging out killing time or using the free WIFI.
My son has math tutoring every Monday evening. His tutor operates out of a local Starbucks. He is there 3-4 hours a day tutoring kids. Maybe he buys one cup of coffee if that. He's been doing it for years.
It is a culture they foster.
So the question comes down to "what was different here?"