Starbucks  Howard Schultz has announced that  can enter  of Starbucks' 8,000 cafes in the USA without buying . Starbucks staff must treat everyone in the cafe as a . Mr Schultz said: "Any person who enters our , including...restrooms,  of whether they make a , is considered a customer." People can  use Starbucks to sit down, relax and use the .
The new  will make life easier for cafe . In April, managers told customers to leave a cafe or to not use the . Two black men were arrested in  for waiting for a friend. A  later, a black man was told he could not use the bathroom. He put a  online of a  man using the  bathroom without buying anything. Schultz said he didn't want to make Starbucks a  bathroom, but the new policy was .