From the end of January, customers at participating stores will be able to get a top-up of many hot and iced brewed coffee and tea drinks.

The new rule comes as part of a push by Starbucks' new chairman and CEO, Brian Niccol, to reinvigorate the chain's sagging sales. Niccol has said that he wants Starbucks to recapture the community coffeehouse feeling it used to have, before long drive-thru ...

Starbucks is ending its open-door policy, and will start requiring people to be paying customers to hang out in stores and use restrooms.

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.

Starbucks doesn’t want to be America’s public bathroom anymore. Starbucks is scrapping a policy that had let anyone hang out at its cafes or use the restrooms without making a purchase. The new rules are part of a larger effort to improve Starbucks’ cafe experience and deter homeless people and non-paying customers who have come to use Starbucks solely for shelter and bathroom access – but they reverse a policy that was put in place after one of the company’s biggest-ever PR disasters.

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,

By the end of the month, you'll need to buy something or be with someone buying something if you want to hang out at Starbucks or use the bathroom.

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.

Starbucks is making a major change to its restaurants, ending its open-door policy and instituting a controversial rule as part of a new “Coffeehouse Code of Conduct.” Whereas in the past the chain famously allowed anyone,