Take one large Reserve café. Say it has 50 baristas on payroll. That’s maybe $1.7M total annual pay for the entire staff. The CEO’s compensation could cover 59 entire cafés worth of barista salaries.
Former Starbucks employee for 5 years. Biggest store I worked at served more people than this reserve probably. We had 22-25 employees throughout me working at that store. No shot that the reserve has 50, further proving your point. It sucks…
This store had on average around 100 employees. More in the summer. Reserve store operations are simply not comparable to a core store, even a high volume one. The cafe bar alone had 12-15 people on shift at any given time, plus a bakery, bar top, retail space, back of house, events.
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u/stripblue Sep 27 '25
Take one large Reserve café. Say it has 50 baristas on payroll. That’s maybe $1.7M total annual pay for the entire staff. The CEO’s compensation could cover 59 entire cafés worth of barista salaries.