Jan 2 - Is your Starbucks closed?

I just looked on the app and the only one I frequent that is closed is one in an office building downtown.

Only the one on the college campus in my town and one that is under refurbishment. But a bunch are doing drive thru only.

Total aside, but if you're in this position - please, please don't yell at the poor baristas next time you're in the store!  Send a scathing email to headquarters and ask for a refund, but please realize, those people making your coffee had nothing to do with corporate allowing mobile orders when the store was closed and have no ability to refund your money for an order that they can't see.  

We used to have 14 or 15 but some closed. I am like why. Why do we need 3 Starbucks on the same street that you can cross the street and walk to all 3. 2 are cattycorner and the other is in the shopping center.

I’m sure some of them are. We have hundreds in the area and we’ve had lots of restaurants and coffee shops closed temporarily during to lack of healthy staff over the last few weeks.

I actually picked up an iced coffee about an hour ago, in the drive through. But you made me curious, so I checked my app, and a few of them in my area are closed! Staffing issues, is my guess.

Whenever our locals have been closed, it's been because they couldn't staff them because of COVID cases. I'm sure that's what's happening.

The tap house connected to the movie theater we go to was closed today due to COVID staffing issues. We went to see The King’s Man, but did it without our beer.

This is probably going to be a regular occurrence until Omicron passes through - I would guess through February.

I drove by the one closest to my house last week and they were gone!  I don't know when they shut down, but now that they are gone, I want a coffee!

Does your daughter mask at work? The current guidelines say you don’t have to isolate if you’re exposed but asymptomatic, just mask for 10 days and get tested on day 5. Not saying I like it, but that might be why.

I just checked my app. I have 21 stores within a 3 mile radius two of them are closed today

I don’t normally frequent Starbucks but it doesn’t surprise me. We have a Raising Canes in our area that we go to once in a while. It’s about a 20 minute drive from our house and the line is always crazy long, I timed it once and it takes at least 15 minutes to get to the front of the line when it’s all the way out to the road which it typically is. The last time we went there we wanted to do a mobile order so we wouldn’t have to wait so long for our food.

The app kept shutting down and it wouldn’t let us do a mobile order. We parked and tried to go inside to order instead of waiting in the drive through line, but the doors were locked and there was a note taped to the door that said, “We don’t have enough staff at the moment to take mobile or counter service orders. Please go through the drive through to place your order.”

People on NextDoor were complaining recently that the Dollar Tree here was always closed when it was supposed to be open, likely due to not having enough staff in general coupled with too many people being out sick.

I think this is what we should be prepared to expect over the coming months.

Mine was open yesterday but I know other places have been closed due to lack of staffing or Covid cases. As someone else said, I think we’re going to be seeing a lot more of this in the coming months.