Is this an example of the Senseless but Politically Popular gesture?

No, it’s not. You haven’t thought this through. This protects the employees from touching your stuff, and saves them a bundle on disposable gloves. They can wear the gloves for a number of tasks (changing up the milk and creamer holders, cleaning surfaces, etc,) but would have to change gloves between each customer.
Just an example.

Politically popular gesture?

You need a more forceful cup.

Yeah, they are pushing the politically popular stance, but are not looking at everything the same. So yes, it is a senseless but politically popular gesture.

I think folks are just afraid and not sure what to do.

Not taking random cups behind the counter seems logical. I’m a bit shocked it was ever allowed.

Actually, I am shocked this was allowed. Then I worked at the theater we had six ice drawers next to registers. I was working during the day we only had one or two registers open the entire shift. So only two ice drawers were used.

But one morning I ran to the food court in the mall and got a half-rack of cinnabons and a pint of milk. I took one roll into the booth to eat once I finished my work. And I left 11 rolls in the breakroom for the people I worked with. And I put my milk in the ice thing that was only used on the busiest nights. Nancy, the day manager lost her shit. For some reason she looked in that ice bin and saw my my milk.

She ran up to the booth and made me empty all the ice, bleach and rinse the bin, and refill it with ice. I was making more than her at the time. But I understood why she was upset. What I did was gross. So I did my chore willingly.

So yeah. WTF is starbucks even allowing reusing cups.

And I get the pattern here. Big ass liberal conspiracy to destroy Trump.

Wow, I better stop getting my beverages at Typhoid Mary’s Coffee Castle! ;-0

I agree with you Josie. They close the door but open up all the windows.

There is only so much you can police in food service. You need to start somewhere. At least they are trying.

I work in food service in a deli. I see some nasty shit. I caught someone licking their fingers in front of our soup bar after grabbing the spoon and stirring the soup. We had to pull the soup and toss it.

We have to toss out all of our hot bar food at the end of the night because of possible customer contamination. It’s sad to see the amount of food we toss out.

Well, I guess a customer expects that people working there are washing their hands (it is the law) and so the coffee being prepared is clean. We know the average Joe (no pun intended) buying a coffee, might not have recently washed their hands and that the sugar and coffee stirrers are germy.

Here’s where it all falls apart, the cashier touches money and gets you your lemon pound cake (my person favorite at Starbucks) and that’s going to be full of germs.

If I go to McDonald’s across the street from me, my guess is they are still letting people fill their own sodas. That soda fountain has to be full of germs of I had to guess. People touch their cup and then press the cup against the thingy to get soda. I don’t, I use my hand, but I’m not sure that’s so much better if I touch my face. On my Alaska cruise a few years ago we weren’t allowed to get our own soda the first two days, and we couldn’t get our buffet food, employees had to do all of the food serving until they felt confident there was no illness on board. I’d like it if McD’s had an employee helping with the Cokes.

I guess I agree with what Starbucks is doing regarding the cups, but it is imperfect.