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Ken Moore

Trouble Brewing at the Starbucks “Office”

Is your “chain of offices” closing? Yep, we all do it – use Starbucks locations for business meetings.

Employees at 600 company-owned Starbucks stores will need to update their resumes and search for new jobs in the next year due to closings, but Starbucks management isn’t publishing a list of targeted locations. Reports say that 70 percent of the stores being closed were opened after January 1, 2006.

There are 110 Starbucks locations between Kokomo and Bloomington with the majority of them being operated around Indianapolis.

If Starbucks is your favorite meeting spot, then you may need to find an alternative in the near future. If you or someone you know works at Starbucks, then being proactive in job search readiness is best practice.

5 Comments

Erik Deckers Comment by Erik Deckers on July 3, 2008 at 10:49am
Yet one more reason why we should support independent coffee shops like B'Java, owned and operated by fellow Smoosier BJ Davis.

If anyone is looking for a new coffee office, check out the independent coffee map Doug Karr and I created. I rarely have meetings at Starbucks, unless the other person insists.
Pat Coyle Comment by Pat Coyle on July 3, 2008 at 11:23am
Say it ain't so!

Actually, I've recently found another coffee shop, and it's NOT the Bean Cup (Doug)...and the coffee is (gulp) better than Starbucks...now if only it had a location near my home or office!
Kyle Lacy Comment by Kyle Lacy on July 3, 2008 at 1:54pm
What coffee shop would that be Pat?
Doug Theis Comment by Doug Theis on July 3, 2008 at 3:10pm
Anyone seen a list with specific SB locations that are on the hit list?
Will Hardison Comment by Will Hardison on July 3, 2008 at 3:56pm
Wait...you mean growing real fast and putting a shop on every corner isn't the answer? Hmm..it is a shame no one else has made this mistake before and learned a valuable lesson...oh wait...

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