re: Employees at Starbucks on S. Sherwood have Unionized

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Red Cup Rebellion

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It's "Red" alright. Let the leftists destroy each other, though, not us...

Also, it will be funny when their checks aren't any bigger b/c the extra $ goes to union dues

Are these people trying to make a career out of working at Starbucks? Wtf it’s a fast food job you work it for a short period of time while in school then move on

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It is not. Otherwise you'd see Starbucks doing it more

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Starbucks is investing in automation to halve the time it takes to make your Frappuccino

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sigh.....

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The financial investment needed to make it work per store I would imagine would be far more significant than keeping employees and again, you'll have even worse service once said robots take over producing your Frappuccino.

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bruh, kindly remove your foot from your mouth and research. Seriously, you have no idea what the frick you are talking about.


Machines are going to be flipping your burgers and serving you coffee.

A kiosk to order is much better than trying to decipher ebonics or some other fricking language these frickers speak. The order accuracy goes up taking the telephone element out of keying in orders.


They are also moving to a smaller store footprint. Smaller stores, more automation, less employees.

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Another topic that Starbucks mentioned but did not delve into too much detail about is the reinvention of their store portfolio with new convenience-focused prototypes.

“Our physical stores have to change — they were built for a different era,” Culver said. “We have to reduce complexity and increase experimental convenience.”

Part of that reimagining includes adding the aforementioned new equipment but also new goals like increasing accessibility, and designing “purpose-built stores,” like more drive-thru and express store formats.

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Machines are going to be flipping your burgers and serving you coffee.

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And they'll be breaking down. You seemed to gloss over that point.

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A kiosk to order is much better than trying to decipher ebonics or some other fricking language these frickers speak.

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When a kid calls out for his shift, someone else slides in. When the kiosk is broken, who will take your order?

I'm sorry this common sense stuff doesn't seem to make sense to you. It's why smaller markets will take years to see any type of automation take place.

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And they'll be breaking down. You seemed to gloss over that point.

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And humans call in sick, want vacation, can’t work certain days, or go on strike.

And “machines” dont routinely break down. They also have a regular maintenance schedule. You know the difference between the people that repair the machines and these coffee cashiers? The repair people actually have a skill.

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When the kiosk is broken, who will take your order?

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The backup kiosk. Don’t you notice there are 2 Redbox machines most places?

In addition to them not breaking down constantly, it’s not like you need one technician per store. Starbucks are already so dense you could have one serving multiple stores. In bigger stores you would already have redundancy for busier times. There are people that automate things for a living. These processes already have solutions, just need the current costs to exceed the entry point.

The other Starbucks thread reminded me, don’t know if it was mentioned there but….drove by the S Sherwood location this weekend and it’s now closed. I did smile when I thought about how that Union deal was working out for those employees.

Yeah, but the sign says "remodeling"

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Yeah, but the sign says "remodeling"

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During the oil bust around 1987, every business going bust in BR would have a sign on the door reading “closed for remodeling.”