![]() ![]() “With all the other baristas that I've talked to who work in New Jersey, not just at this location, this location has had the most difficult customers to deal with,” Morales said. However, workers at other branches are warned about the customer base at the Nassau Street Starbucks. To combat understaffing, Starbucks typically contacts other partner stores in the area for more temporary employees. “There was this one mass quitting, where seven people left … I think it was a lot of people fed-up with working hours, pay, and not enough benefits,” Maddy Heyler ’25 said, who worked at the store last semester. Some baristas noted that their hours have changed due to other employees suddenly not coming into the store, or some temporary summer employees, like high school students, no longer being available to work. She also pointed out that once the store was kept open during a new barista’s training, “which is not usually how Starbucks trains partners, but in this location, it's the only way it works.” Get the best of ‘the Prince’ delivered straight to your inbox. Procedures like new staff training and store cleaning require the store to be closed, which also reduces the available operating hours.įor Nubia Morales ’25, a Starbucks barista, the “hours are very unreliable.” A minimum number of employees are required to operate the store during a normal shift, so occasional store closures have resulted from staff unavailability. While employees used to receive their schedules up to two weeks in advance, changes in operating hours have left employees with fluctuating, uncertain schedules. With a frequently short-staffed location across the street from campus, DSA’s promotion of SWU is focused on “try to get students involved in supporting people who work at Starbucks locations,” Springfield said.ĭespite efforts to improve working conditions via unionization from SWU, the current employees seeking work face serious struggles. “A major goal of DSA is to support labor efforts - not only in organizing unions and winning union elections, but also helping workers through the process until they get a contract,” he said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian. Compass Coffee is planning to open a drive-thru location, also in a former bank building and also along Langston Blvd.Ĭompass originally hoped to open its 4710 Langston Blvd location this summer but work is still ongoing and an opening date has not been announced.Bryce Springfield ’25, a member of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), has promoted SWU through flyers and campus outreach as part of the work of the Central New Jersey Chapter of DSA. Starbucks will soon no longer have the vehicularly-accessible coffee market cornered in North Arlington, however. Those reading the tea leaves (or coffee beans) may take that to mean that Starbucks is addressing some of the long drive-thru lines that snake around the stand-alone store’s parking lot and sometimes extend out onto the street. “The store will reopen with an updated drive-thru to improve customer experience at the store,” the spokesperson added. in Arlington, VA is undergoing a standard renovation, and will reopen on October 10.” “We are happy to confirm that our store at 5515 Langston Blvd. “As a standard course of business, we continually evaluate our store portfolio, using various criteria to ensure we are meeting the needs of our customers,” a Starbucks spokesperson wrote in response to an inquiry from ARLnow. But the closure is for renovations, the company tells us. The cafe at 5515 Langston Blvd, which opened less than three years ago in a former bank, recently closed and was removed from the Starbucks website and app. Good news for coffee lovers who enjoy not taking extra steps to get their caffeine fix: Arlington’s lone drive-thru Starbucks is only closed temporarily. Starbucks store at 5515 Lee Highway, prior to opening (staff photo) ![]()
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