sorry bestie it's a food safety hazard! you wouldn't want someone's nail polish in your drink either, lolol <3

You don’t fight it. All foodservice jobs are like this. Starbucks has no reason to change anything or accommodate for this just because someone wants their nails done. I don’t see why they would spend money on gloves for the reason of it allowing people to come to work with painted or fake nails.

Respectfully, if you want nails that bad I would get out of the fast food business. A lot of places won’t bend on it since it’s a health hazard

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i understand everyone commenting about health food codes and why gloves are unrealistic (and i don’t disagree) but i would also like to point out to everyone who says gloves cause cross contamination that i can guarantee you are not washing your hands every time you change position like you’re implying gloves should be changed. the amount of stuff i get on my hands when restocking/baring that then could very easily get into a drink or food item during the day is ridiculous. and i know that no one on this thread is washing their hands every position change so claiming someone should get a different job for pointing out a rule seems a little hypocritical… just a thought

Lmao ok my coworkers and I always talk about this bc it irritates us and I’ve seen other fast food workers have acrylics and many bartenders/servers I’m over it but everytime I mention it here I get downvoted. I’m going on vacation in December and I can’t wait to get acrylics for that time.

I have active psoriasis on my hands, if the Siren doesn't care about my flaky, cracking hands, she sure as fuck won't care about your pretty nails.

I care about your pretty nails. Gloves should be provided in abundance for any and every reason.

Bruv why is everyone downvoting and getting mad bc we want pretty nails. Obviouslyyyyy we understand food service policy but it’s dumb! And we’re allowed to think its dumb and want it to be changed. Probably won’t happen but it’s reddit. What’s the point of this sub? We vent. 🤷🏻‍♀️

To wear gloves just because you want your nails done just isn’t practical for the type of job it is. The amount of gloves you’d go through plus the different amount of sizes would be hard to consistently get supplied with all the supply issues starbs is having.
Plus You’d have to change gloves AND wash your hands every time the gloves either got dirty, you moved stations, something got in them, they got punctured, etc. (if you’re only changing your gloves and not hand washing you’re ruining the point of having gloves)

+ people who are saying there’s roaches in their ice bin or bugs on their bar really need to calm the health department🤢 I don’t know how you could serve food in those conditions and have a clear conscience

Literally no other food place place bans their employees from nail polish, even full service restaurants that should. We do not actually prepare food, we do not touch anything that a customer consumes, and there’s no reason to not allow nail polish company-wide. (There may be local differences, like there are with wearing hats, but there is no federal level standard banning nail polish.)

I wish they’d come off it and just say it’s dress code rather than blaming it on health standards.

You don’t, it’s food safety. Literally all food service jobs have this rule. It is universal health code

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buy impress color press on nails, i have them on right now because i don't work until wednesday so i'm gonna take them off that day and put them back on after work

The few times partners had nails on while I worked with them almost every time I saw paint chips on the bar. Likely in people’s drinks. Also, years ago I worked with a girl who had fake nails, by the end of the night, one was missing. Guess where it was? In the mocha. Starbucks has some lame rules but this is not one of them.

I'm so sorry people are being vicious about this 💀 I've worked in food service for years and this is the only job I've had that told me no nail polish / acrylics, even in actual seated restaurants and in BOH positions. it shouldn't even be that big of a deal, just like watches 💀💀

I made a very similar post and got the same response. Like damn I just want to not have ugly nubby fingers

People are right, it's a health hazard. You don't have to like it, but it is. You can think hand washing is stupid, too, but it doesn't change the fact that you have to do it.
We also aren't allowed to wear rings or watches or other things that could either fall off and end up in someone's food/drink, or get caught on equipment and lead to you injuring yourself. No temporary hair color because it could flake off.
I miss having my nails done, too, but no food service job I've ever had has allowed any of these things.

acrylics/gel is safe if you are not personally prepping food (ie wait staff or hosting/bussing) but at stbx ur expected to be flexible for the play unless there's a health reason involved. all food service bans nail polish for the most part with or without gloves because it is that much of a health hazard and nobody wants to deal with the controversy if a fake nail happened to fall in someones food/drink. fda says legally yeah if youre wearing gloves its fine but ima be real with you: nobodys going to want to do that. its easier to ban them outright than scold ppl who have them for not wearing gloves. not to mention with gloves youre supposed to change them out regularly since you cant really handwash gloves. its a huge investment all so a few employees can have fake nails so as much as i wanna say fuck big corpo i kinda gotta side with them on this one. its a huge risk. i don't blame them for saying just don't do it.

btw this is speaking as someone who had fake nails before i got a job at stbx. they keep me from biting my nails so im back into the bad habit. so trust me i knooow it sucks but i understand why. i wish there was a way around it lol

If I remember correctly, some US states prohibit nail polish/fake nails regardless if you have gloves or not. My state allows polish if you have gloves, but not long nails like acrylics under gloves (presumably because they’d easily poke through.) So even if sbux changed policy, I probably would’t be able to have acrylics anyway, unless they were super short.

Hi, please get a different job

I was just thinking about this and using gloves! I think we should be allowed for gel and acrylics but I know it’s a hard case to make :( I miss being pretty so bad

Honestly I’m gonna say it. We should just be wearing gloves to begin with. Well, bar and warming should be wearing gloves I think. It’s the right thing to do for food prep just to be safe, even if it’s not always completely needed. I used to work at a grocery store deli before working at Starbucks and everyone had to wear TWO pairs of plastic gloves. Very little of the meat was even raw, gloves were just to help put sandwiches together faster and to prevent spread of germs. It was a genuine shock to come to Starbucks and see people handling food without gloves, using only wax paper and crusty ass tongs that have been sitting on a shelf all day. “Waaah but you have to change them often” would u really rather be walking around with sticky hands all day?? Every single time i help with bar during peak I get insanely sticky even if I wash my hands whenever I get a chance. Gloves would probably save us a lot of time since we wouldn’t have to worry about sticky hands or having to throw perfectly good food away because we accidentally barely touched it while putting it into the bag.

I feel you, I also go to a culinary school so I never have the opportunity to have my nails done, which I miss. But it’s not just Starbucks, it’s a food industry and safety must to have clean, plain nails.:)

At my store the females can’t have acrylics or polish but they say nothing to the boys 🙃

I am right there w/ u. yeah sure it's a universal food service rule, but like EVERYWHERE else I go for food, people have nails done. paint, long acrylics, you name it. I have powder dip on my nails (which isn't going ANYWHERE unless I slam it into a milk pitcher at full force). I wear gloves around shifts that are sticklers or my SM. 🤷‍♀️

you can legit make or buy press on nails to wear when you are outside of working. that’s what I do.

I think acrylics are ok with no painted polish

Nail polish will never be allowed bc it does chip but I think acrylics should be