Comments on: Starbucks Must Give Baristas $100M In Tips

Calif. Judge Rules Tip Money Should Not Have Been Shared With Supervisors

[cantshutup]

I was in Starbucks at the Barnes & Noble in Springfield MO. The "barista" wiped her nose with her fingers and proceeded to make my coffee. I asked Joel (with tattoos) "Don''t you think she should wash her hands before she makes my coffee since she was wiping her nose with her fingers?" Genius Joel the cashier said, "She''s not going to touch your coffee with her fingers." I said, "Keep your coffee Joel, I won''t pay for that!" Starbucks...you suck all around...AND you steal tips??? tsk, tsk...I am no longer a customer.

[bearswife11]

I was a waitress for 18 years. CA law says management can not receive compensation from "barristers". Why should a hard working waitperson that is on their feet all day running and EARNING those tips have to compensate the managements wages. Management aren''t the ones doing the work for what the customers are tipping for. If a good waitperson EARNS good tips then the customer wants that waitperson to have them, not share with someone who had nothing to do with them. If management wants more money then stay a waitperson. The owners of businesses are illegally getting off from paying decent wages by having the waitperson pay part of those wages. I had no problem paying my dishwasher and busser tips because they were running with me.

[lorinkundert]

Appeal all you want, the law is the law and you are not above it.

[jehovahwtnss]

Well! Well! Well! So there is occasionally some justice in the world

[docofthebay]

Why do people tip at Starbucks? *** makes them any different than someone working at Arby''''s or Taco Bell?
Posted by easeup

Good point; it''s that snotty uppity atmosphere and the big fat TIP JAR sitting in from of customers faces me thinks!

[docofthebay]

OH puh-lease! I gave up Starbucks years ago in favor of Peets. Pretentious, ridiculous prices, and the coffee just tastes like a$$.

[excoachken]

Who cares? Starbucks is guilty of fraud for selling overpriced coffee to sheeple for years. Their "coffee" with faux-class is an "Oprah" style joke on the moronic consumers who frequent their coffee houses.

[hachidori]

As someone that years ago worked for Starbucks as a manager & left because of their employment practices I can tell you that a shift supervisor is not management. They dont place orders, they don''t do paperwork, all shift supervisor means is that they have a key to open the door and access to the safe to make change. They have no actual authority over employees. Starbucks does pay their starting baristas better than minimum wage, and employees do get raises. They also provide health care for every employee. They do have a policy of discriminating against working mothers. When I was a manager for Starbucks, it was quite common that employees made more than management with tips, and that included paying the shift supervisors tips also.

[beehive21-2009]

The IRS likes this story.

[puzzler125]

What a crock! When I was management (not for Starbucks) we knew as supervisors we could not share in the employee''s gifts and tips. We had better benefits and other "perks" that made up for any financial loss but more importantly than that-the tips were to be given to the employees who did something extra, special, dealt with customers day to day etc. All it would take to reverse Starbucks archaic and greedy position would be for (starting today, for me) a few of us to say "I''m not going to Starbucks until 100% of the tips go to the deserved employees'' pockets and NOT supervisors and management."