{"id":9045,"date":"2018-05-11T07:48:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T11:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=47b3751526ed59ca810651e6dc21b668"},"modified":"2018-05-11T07:48:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T11:48:32","slug":"starbucks-changes-bathroom-policy-following-racial-firestorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/05\/11\/starbucks-changes-bathroom-policy-following-racial-firestorm\/","title":{"rendered":"Starbucks changes bathroom policy following racial firestorm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; Starbucks is opening its bathrooms to everyone regardless of whether they&#8217;ve bought anything following the arrest last month of two African American men at one of its coffee shops in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman Howard Schultz says he doesn&#8217;t want the company to become a public bathroom, but feels employees can make the &#8220;right decision a hundred per cent of the time,&#8221; if that choice is removed at the store level.<\/p>\n<p>One of the men arrested on April 12 was denied use of a bathroom before sitting down to await a business meeting. He and his business partner were arrested minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Schultz, speaking at the Atlantic Council in Washington, said Starbucks had a &#8220;loose policy&#8221; on bathroom use, The Washington, The Seattle Times, and other media outlets reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &mdash; Starbucks is opening its bathrooms to everyone regardless of whether they&rsquo;ve bought anything following the arrest last month of two African American men at one of its coffee shops in Philadelphia. Chairman Howard Schultz says he doesn&rsquo;t want the company to become a public bathroom, but feels employees can make the &ldquo;right decision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9074,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9045\/revisions\/9074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}