Starbucks Health Code Violations

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Starbucks Health Code Violations

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Put “Starbucks health code violations” into the Google search box. The list of locations that comes back is surprising. It includes some severe violations by location. Granted, some are old. However, some are also from 2022 and 2023.

According to America University’s Eagle, “Starbucks failed to be compliant with multiple regulations that have direct implications on consumers’ health.” This appeared on December 7, 2022.

According to an Akron Beacon Journal story posted this past December, Starbucks had several violations at one location throughout the year, some of which were considered “critical.” “Cleanliness of equipment food-contact surfaces and utensils,” the report read. (These companies have the best reputations.)

According to Syracuse.com, Sonic and Starbucks both had several violations. The article was from March 17 of this year.
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According to the Ashville Citizen-Times, Starbucks had several violations. The most recent of them was on March 16: “Employee stated utensils used to make beverages with milk were only cleaned once a day at closing.” These are supposed to be cleaned several times a day.
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According to the Woodbridge, Va., Patch, in an article published earlier this month, at one location, “Employees and conditional employees are not aware of the reporting procedures concerning information about their health as they relate to the symptoms caused by illness, infection, or other source that is associated with an acute gastrointestinal illness or a lesion.”
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Similar complaints came up in other cities. Some were not deemed as serious, which is important.

Large companies call these isolated incidents. Starbucks has almost 16,000 stores in the United States, so, to an extent, this is true. However, it is not isolated for customers who live in the areas where the violations were found.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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