That’s WILD bc mine hired me KNOWING I work as a barista at a seasonal coffee shop in Skagway, Alaska 3 months a year… I am a former partner though but hadn’t worked as a S’bux barista in 12yrs and had been doing the small scale seasonal job after.

But no one has to know

I mean my DM says that Dunkin’ Donuts isn’t a competitor, because we don’t sell coffee. We sell an 💫 experience 💫 so I guess I’m good to get a second job at Dunkin lol

while a local coffee shop would likely have a better environment, some people are at starbucks for the benefits that locally owned places just can’t compete with.

Trust me the grass is definitely not always greener. My old local shop only paid us $8 an hour and had horrible tips and no insurance. Plus the owner was hot headed and fired people on the spot just for looking at her wrong. Starbucks has its issues but so does everywhere else 🤷‍♀️

I don’t have awards to give atm but goddamn it this comment deserves it.

I was allowed to work at Dunkin for a little while. It’s really just up to the sm and dm because, as far as I can tell, it’s not super clearly defined.

🙌🏻 if you are a supervisor and up, it would be a conflict of interest to work at any coffee shop. I quickly went from supervising at sbux to managing a restaurant, kitchen, and bar 🤷🏻‍♀️ I wouldn’t promote someone from shift lead/supervisor to department supervisor/ department manager if they were working at a company that was very similar 🤦🏻‍♀️ i wanted to give a helpful answer, and i think this rounds it out.

Baristas can because the majority of the information they have is recipes that are available to the public.
Supervisors and up cannot because they regularly handle sensitive information.
Dunkin and panera are always conflicts of interest. Local coffee shops are not.