It’s usually a volunteer basis on being open today

Our whole district decided to close today.

My store is a kiosk in an office building and we aren’t street level, so we are closed on weekends and major holidays.

our manager requests us to stay open through all holidays, every day, 365 days a year (my store). some stores are different and close on certain holidays. depends on ur manager tbh

We were supposed to be open but too many people called out due to sickness I believe

It really depends. I work in a mall Starbucks and they’re closed most big holidays because the mall is closed.

My entire district didn’t get their delivery so majority of us had to shut down as soon as we ran out of milk.

We had one store in our town open but my store and the other store both closed. If we wanted to volunteer at the open store we could tho. I hear tips are amazing on Christmas Day!

If not enough partner stores need to close

The policy is Xmas day is THE ONLY DAY of the year that is 100% volunteer only. If there are not enough volunteers, the store cannot operate and will not open for Xmas day.

So you see why it's in the DM/SM's interest to not disclose this information to you. If this policy is not abided by, please call PCC

I don't know what decides it, but at least in my area, there's only one store that stays open on Christmas (usually the same store every year) and it's manned by all the baristas that volunteered.

store managers decide. we had a meeting and he literally just asked if anyone wanted to work christmas raise your hand and like two people did. we closed and he sent the other two to a neighboring store.

We got to choose what days we were working for Dec 24-26 and the 31st an the 1st. Only rule was we had to take 3. Not enough people took Christmas to open

I’ve worked at two Starbuck’s and both locations were closed at Christmas with the option to work at a other location that was open.

we don’t have the customers to do it. there was me and two other shifts willing to work and four baristas but our DM said no

I’ve always been told it’s volunteer only, if there aren’t enough volunteers you just don’t open 🤷🏻‍♀️

My store was the only one open and I was forced onto the schedule because literally no one wanted to sign up and 90% of the people that worked with me weren't even from my store, nor have they every did a shift at my store. So it was a hot mess, everyone was confused, most of them could barely sequence correctly and I had to work basically every position. And the shifts weren't even my stores shifts either. And to top it off, a lot of the partners don't even work at drive thru stores so they were extra lost...HOT MESS CENTRAL.

No idea why we were closed but we were. I know at least 1 store in my city was open and probably the one by the interstate. It was volunteer and you were allowed to ask if the open stores needed more help

My store was the only one open

It's volunteer only. If no one volunteers, the store doesn't open. If it's corporate. Your sm can't schedule you unless you volunteer.

Wait you didn’t volunteer to work? It’s supposed to be volunteer only

We had one store open in our district and some of the people that volunteered at my store went there, but I think they scheduled all veterans that day because newer partners that volunteered weren’t scheduled.

my manager told me that our DM gives all the stores a choice. and my manager wasn’t going to work on Christmas so she put it to the shifts and none of them wanted to work so that’s how they decided to close!

We were open and only had 4 people the whole day and we are the busiest store in our district our managers basically told us that we weren’t closing on Christmas because we make a lot of money on Christmas

We were open till 9 pm on Christmas Eve and closed on Christmas Day.

I work at a hotel and literally 2 weeks before they told my manager he had to open on Christmas! I was so mad for him because what if he made plans? We only opened because the upstairs restaurant didn't wanna open.

Starbucks is the last place that should be opened on Christmas! If you have caffeine addiction just say that but you'd think they just make shit at home but noooo I want the Christmas blonde!!!

We were closed due to too many partners getting covid.

Also I guess if you in a licensed starbucks you got to close so...there's that

My store was closed today. Which I mean I’m not mad about because it gave me 3 days off in a row which hasn’t happened in months. Normally don’t even get two days off in a row lolol.

Mine decided we wouldn't be open on Christmas day or new years day. Like my SM took them off the sign up sheet for who works holidays n such. So it's up to the store I believe :).

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