Who patronizes Starbucks?

I don't think they are wasting the water down the drain.
I think they recycle the dirty water into their espresso drinks . . . at least they taste that way to me.

 

Don't go to starbuck. Don't drink coffee and their products are loaded with sugar. Too bloody expensive anyways.

 

I patronize Starbucks to obtain the coffee grounds for use as compost in our garden. Otherwise we always avoid Starbucks - too expensive, too high in sugar.

 

For some strange reason I feel the urge to go pee.

 

drip... drip... drip...

 

i don't go to starbucks, but thanks for posting this. this sounds crazy. they are actually allowed to do this in the united states????? whats wrong with starbucks just spending $7-14 a month on restaurant santizier? are they too cheap to install a seperate sink to soak dishes in for 60 seconds and only dump it when the sanitizer sink becomes dirty? sometimes 1 oz to 1 gallon of water will last the entire day, and there is no need for a rinse as long as you keep it @ 150 ppm. thats what all the restaurants do.

and at the temperature that coffee is served, theres no bacteria anway.

maybe they are afraid that if they drop thier water usage by using santizing solotion, they would be able to drop prices

 

according to the average home car wash with a nozzle, thats enough water for me to wash my prius every day for 554 years!!!

 

I do go to Starbucks, and I have seen that running water, and I asked about it, and it gets filtered, and run back in. It's on a pump, you know, like you would have in a fish tank, only obviously fancier.

I was told it does not go down a drain.

SO there is the scoop from the local Starbucks.

 

does anyone have the corporate address of starbucks? i want to write them a letter

 

i'm disappointed to see stupid things like this come out of people's complete lack of understanding of science...

yes, some bacteria makes people sick. no, you're not going to give people food poisoning by turning off the damned tap water.

 

I go to starbucks because I have a couple of friends that work there. I usually get stuff half off or free, but I don't think the stuff is worth full price. I will ask them about their water situation and see what they say. I haven't see an running tap though.

 

After reading the above, and as I am at lunch, thought I would take a walk to check the local Starbucks. I never patronise them - I refuse to drink dishwater, but visiting them to check on the tap at least gives me a little exercise. I can report that at least one shop here in Sydney does not have any running taps. Mind you, if they did have a running tap, then they would be most likely to be fined under current water restrictions.

I would also question the use of cold water to clean anything. When I worked in a local restaurant, I was told that all washing of anything to do with food prepartion had to be in hot water - never use cold.

 

After readin this yesterday, I went to 2 different ones today just to look for that. Just walked in and out, both had the tap on.

 

I was raised in the restaurant business, and when we wanted to add Ice Cream service to the menu, the health department told us we would have to have a Dipper sink, with constantly running water, to keep the scoops in.

I think it may depend entirely on the local Health Department regulations as to whether or not any coffee shop, ice cream parlor, or other food service location, is required to use running water. The corollary to that, of course, is that it is not just Starbucks.