After years of many people using Starbucks as a place to hang, to work or to use the bathroom — a typical "third place" — the coffee giant has decided to change its rules.
Its "open door policy" is now being altered, ostensibly to "deter homeless people and non-paying customers who have come to use Starbucks solely for shelter and bathroom access," as per Jordan Valinsky and Nathaniel Meyersohn with CNN. You must now be a paying customer to use the space.
