Judge Orders Starbucks to Pay More Than $100 Million in Back Tips
A Superior Court judge on Thursday ordered Starbucks Corp. to pay its California baristas more than $100 million in back tips and interest that the coffee chain paid to shift supervisors.
San Diego Superior Court Judge Patricia Cowett also issued an injunction that prevents Starbucks’ shift supervisors from sharing in future tips, saying state law prohibits managers and supervisors from sharing in employee gratuities.
Starbucks spokeswoman Valerie O’Neil said the company planned an immediate appeal of the ruling, calling it “fundamentally unfair and beyond all common sense and reason.”
I agree with the judge but then again I disagree with the tip jar being there in the first place. I used to go to Starbucks just for plain old coffee until McDonalds improved their coffee offering. You don’t see tip jars at McDonalds.
When you pay the high prices that Starbucks charges it’s hard to justify leaving a tip for someone that pulls a spout for 4 seconds, places a lid on a cup of coffee and hands it to you. If they were waiting on me at a table, of course I’d tip.
My 2 cents. - AWB
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