Starbucks Coffee

Just wondering when a decision was going to be made.  Thanks.

When will we hear the verdict?

I would like to know as well

been waiting for several months now to hear about the progress on this one...

I have many great partners at my store wondering about this one as well! Please let us know!

Does this include increasing the amount of earrings we can wear and if we can have our hair colored in different colors?

Just staying tuned for updates...

its only been 4 months...

Anything new!?

anything at all?!

And the decision will be made when?

I am very interested in the verdict of this review.

I am also wondering how the dress code would change.

I love my job, but I am tired of not being able to be myself.

When is this going to be updated?!

"Casual Fridays?!" This is absolutely ridiculous. Give us our freedom, from a senior partner with our dear SBUX, I can tell you from a behind the counter perspective that telling us we can only share our personality one day a week is compared to going out on Friday night to the local drag bar and the rest of the week dressing up in our pretty suit and briefcase.

Our customers excpect us to be able to have beautifully coloured purple hair and fantastic art on our arms. Giving us one day a week to show our true colours doesn't make sense. Like The Beatles once said, "Eight days a week!"

i would like starbucks to actually embrace diversity like they claim to do already.

Having a job is a privilage, and a responsibility. Our personalities are shown through our actions, not by what we wear.  Our primary function as partners is to uphold Starbucks Standards and represent the brand in a professional manner - coffee shop or not.  All business environments expect something, which has been true for all time. Diversity is embraced, being diverse is a practice.

I think allowing a little more options in dress code is an awesome idea!  Some of my partners can not always afford to buy a new black shirt after it washed over and over and over, so they end up wearing a worn out shirt.  Lets let some fashion into our stores.  =)

It's not like having a white stripe on our shoes will offend a customer and make them not want to come back.

I think Starbucks makes to big of a deal over small little things like collars on the shirts, small tatoos that be seen, nose piercings (that are really (quite common now since this is 2009), shoes that are and are not dress code, I truely do not think anybody that really wants a cup of starbucks coffee really cares about any of those small little issues that Starbucks seem to be concerned with. Starbucks is suppose to be a place to work where everybody is suppose to be able to express thereselves as there own person but it seems like there are way to many restrictions on that, so how are we suppose to do that if things stay the way they are.  I understand the professional part of this but some things that starbucks has issues with are old time and they just might find out that if they just lighten up a little it really would not make a bit of difference when it comes to the customers and there profit. In fact i bet most people would not even notice half of the things that Starbucks conseder not dress code because they are there for coffee and good customer service which they all get no matter wether we are completly in dress code or if we are a little off on our dress code. Just a little something for everybody involved to think about!!!!!!!

Black, white, and khaki are boring!

Oh please, no more earnings, or piercings (visible) or dreadlocks or hair hanging down over the face as well as over your drink being made.  Low cut shirts on women - YIKES.  Starbucks can become known as Tacki-ville Coffee.  There just something to be said how one looks-dresses, hair, piercings, etc....that reflects upon the company they are working for.  Even those stud earrings in the nose, look like a pimple that needs to be popped - really - look.  There has to be boundaries and casual is fine or exhibitionists - I think I'll end up going somewhere else.  Because I don't know what that person has been doing, where they've been going, etc... and they are preparing my food and drink?????????

Over a year later and no response yet...

The dress code is fine how it is, but partners should be allowed to show tattoos and do their hair how they please within it. I like the uniform, but it doesn't make sense that on a 110 degree August day, one partner's uniform (shorts and a short sleeved polo) has to be different from another's (long pants and a long sleeved turtleneck) because s/he has tattoos. Silly.

Ruffus, you're in the minority there pal. Get with the times, embrace diversity. People still shop at Target and Whole Foods where employees are allowed to express who they are. Starbucks would not be hurt by allowing partners to show their tattoos...in fact, they would benefit by having happier, more comfortable partners. And seriously, as a tattooed customer, not an employee of the company, I would like to see the Bux respect and value me and my choices - AS A CUSTOMER - by allowing their employees to show their tattoos. Just another way for me to make a connection with my barista.

I work for starbucks and find the dress code a little too strong for my taste. It’s a coffee shop for goodness sakes, not a high end restaurant! If starbucks wants the desired effect of a relaxing and homie coffee shop then they need to loosen up on the code. I have had piercings in other work places and usually the only reaction I get is, “Did that hurt?” No one ever in my years I had them has ever responded with disgust or disapproval of having it in the work place.I realize the need for a certain uniform so that the customers know we work there but isnt a simple shirt and the apron enough? Come on, tucked in collared shirts?! I wear my vivano shirt all the time because it’s the only thing i find comfortable to work in. Believe it or not, being a barista ain’t easy physically because if you're in a location where it's nonstop customers then you... can't stop (moving that is). I think we would all benefit from a few simple fitted tees with a starbucks logo and the apron.

Starbucks is a high end coffee shop. I have worked for them for 10 years, and I do believe that thier dress code is a little too strict.  I mean...who cares what color shoes I am wearing?  But, I also don't want to have some guy working in my store with multiple pearcings in his face.Or some teenage girl with a tiny tee and her crack hanging out. My store is a place where proffessionals come and have meetings. I don't know if they would come there if it didn't have a certain atmosephere. Whether it is "with the times" or not, there has to be a standard. There has to be a compromise.

hmmm...really looking into working for starbucks...I am a barista else where and love being one...but I've heard that they won't even let me put in a retainer (nose)...this would honestly deter me, even as I'm putting my husband through his masters

im curious to know why other topics have responses, but, this one has been sround for over a year and no response at all. really? baristas all have an edge or a different personality to them. thats one reason that some of us are hired. this stiff dresscode, really, is a fairly new thing considering how long sbux has been around. i dont think we should be able to run around looking like hookers. c'mon, we have common sense. but not allowing us to have tattoos show or have purple hair. or even a nose ring? really? you can do those things almost anywhere else. people expect those things from people working at sbux. its been said, say what you mean and mean what you say. we embrace diversity? oh! you mean as long as its on the paying side of the counter? c'mon! embrace the baristas diversity too! were cool, hip and friendly! lets help break down the stereotypes!  there can be compromise! if you give me a little space to add my personality, (nose stud, purple hair, sbux tees, let my half sleeves show, which btw, is a collective of stars, water and lotus flowers) i promise to not have 10 pircings in my face, wear only sbux tees, not have a dyed skunk stripe in my hair or whatever and wont have a tattoo of satan on my forehead. sounds fair to me! it doesnt make me any less of a hard worker. it actually would make me feel more accepted by corporate sbux. and the guy that said hed be afraid to think of someone like that fixing his drink?!? thats called personal hygiene! were not talking about, hey, im a hippie and dont want to shower, embrace me! ha! too funny. regardless of the hair, tatts, etc, we all still shower and etc. we all have the tatts and piercings already, were just covering them up.... so those people are already making your drinks/food... surprise!

As a customer, I would want to see employees act and dress in a professional manner.  Having SBUX employees dress the way they want to  to express their true personality may offend and drive some customers away.  I'm all in favor of freedom of expression but do it outside of the workplace and on non-company time.

I can understand employees wanting to be casual and expressive, but as a customer I don't think a restaurant/coffee shop is the place for that.

Myself, face piercings gross me out - especially the eyebrow piercings - I can't even hold a conversation with someone who has one and certainly wouldn't go back to a starbucks where I had to stare at that again.

And I'm not really fond of tattoos either - I want my food prepared by clean cut professionals and if you can wear a long shirt and fool me then my psyche will be okay, but if you have piercings and tattoos all over your body, I'll probably go somewhere else where I'll feel more comfortable.

Sorry to anyone who's offended by how I feel, but I'm probably not the only customer who feels this way.

I honestly don't care whether or not my barista has tattoos or piercings nor do I care what they wear (within reason - anything obscene, for example, would be inappropriate).  I live in Michigan and was horrified last winter to learn that certain clothing items weren't "allowed" for the baristas working the drive thru.  What that meant for them was that they were shivering and freezing while working.  Expand the dress code - not just for reasons of personal expression, but also for comfort (and safety from frostbite/hypothermia).  The partners I've had experiences with have all been good people and I bet they'd still be good people even if they were allowed to wear whatever they wanted (including body jewelry and tattoos).

It's been Years and they haven't addressed this again. Partners, wake up. Starbucks doesn't really care about your comfort. People were placated in '08 when they said they were looking into it, and that's all they were aiming for.

I'm going to have to agree with coffeeberry.  I've been with Starbucks almost 10 years, the last 6 of which I've had to wear an armband to cover my single tattoo; the chinese symbol for honesty.  Customers who have asked to see it and ask me what it means get a kick out of the fact that Starbucks is covering up my honesty...

I have been a partner for over 4 years and I have worked at stores in both the Bay Area and Portland--both markets have reputations for being very progressive.  Even so, I have had a lot of trouble with my nose ring, which is really just a small stud.  I think one of the primary problems that the dress code has is that there is no consistency.  It depends on the district manager's preferences as to how many piercings I have in my ears or whether I can wear my nose ring (or whether I can cover it up or must take it out).

Honestly, I wouldn't hate the dress code so badly, if it were enforced appropriately.  Upper management MUST lead by example.  The most respectable district managers I've ever met came into stores wearing our uniform and were even able to jump behind the counter and work shoulder to shoulder with our partners during a rush.  It has been years since I have seen something like that.  All I see anymore is district managers in their street clothes or a regional manager in a skirt so short I would have sent her home had she been showing up to work a shift, and they want to wag their fingers at me over a few too many holes in my face?  Yeah...right.

Hypocrisy like this cannot be tolerated.  Upper management will at least practice what they preach, or lay off of me and my partners, or I and many other people like me will take our talents elsewhere.

I have lots of tattoo's and have had to cover them up for my 2 years at the company. Now I have tattoo's on my fingers and have been told to wear gloves. Seriously when will OUR company allow diversity in the workplace?