The world's largest coffee café chain announced on Monday a reversal on a policy where visitors will not now be required to purchase something, anything if they want to hang out at their facility and use the restroom.

One of the better things about Starbucks was their open-door policy that was started back in 2018. You could still hang out in one of the coffee chain’s stores without buying something. That’s no longer going to be the case. Now, if you want to stay, you’re goin to have to pay, starting at the end of January.

Starbucks is reversing its open-door policy after almost seven years, now requiring that people make a purchase if they want to hang out at its coffee shops or use its restrooms. The coffee giant said on Monday that a new code of conduct – which will be posted in all company-owned North American stores – will also ban discrimination or harassment,

Starbucks announced on Monday that it would no longer allow people who haven’t purchased something from its coffee shops to stay in its stores or use its bathrooms.

The new rules reverse an open-door policy put in place in 2018, after two Black men were arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks where they had gone for a business meeting. The indiv

Starbucks is rolling back a policy that allowed people to hang out there or use the bathroom without buying anything. Why it matters: The chain implemented the policy in 2018, following a national uproar when two Black men who hadn't purchased anything were arrested at a Starbucks in Philadelphia.