Are starbucks or any other coffee shop open on Christmas Day?
Starbucks haters, feast on this: Starbucks slaves its poor employees on the day we celebrate our good Lord’s birth. How can they be such careless, soulless, evil human beings as to force poor hourly employees to brew coffee instead of spending precious time with their families? No other coffee or donut shop in the City was open early on Christmas day except for Starbucks. Further evidence, you haters say, that Starbucks’ corporate evil drives it to do things a locally owned shop wouldn’t even dream of! Right? WRONG! I believe Starbucks is actually helping its employees by being open on Christmas. I was getting drowsy on my graveyard shift and stopped by the Starbucks on 18th at Castro. I asked the cashier if he had drawn the short straw to get such a lousy shift. He laughed and said, “Oh no, I WANTED to work today! I didn’t have anything else going on — everyone’s out of town — I might as well make some money.” There was most definitely demand for coffee on Christmas day. The line snak
