BossMind - 香港消費｜Starbucks阻齋坐打躉 推堂食限時90分鐘 低消一杯飲品或一件食品

[fordsolo]

HK Starbucks Introduces 90-Minute Dine-In Limit to Curb Seat-Hogging; Minimum Purchase of One Drink or One Food Item Required

Starbucks Hong Kong has introduced a trial 90-minute dine-in limit at two of its outlets in busy shopping malls. Each dine-in customer is also required to purchase at least one drink or one food item. The measures are aimed at addressing the issue of customers occupying seats for prolonged periods while making little or no purchase.

Starbucks Hong Kong and Macau confirmed that the 90-minute dine-in arrangement is currently being trialled at its outlets in New Town Plaza, Sha Tin, and Metroplaza, Kwai Fong, from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. daily. Both outlets are located in high-traffic shopping malls where demand for seating is particularly high during lunchtime, afternoon tea hours and weekends, making them the first locations selected to trial the stricter seating-management measures.

Customers wishing to dine in will be assigned seats by staff and issued a “time-limit card” stating their table number, seating time and details of their “90-minute dine-in period”. As a basic condition for dining in, each customer must purchase at least one drink or one food item. This means that customers who occupy seats without making any purchase, or groups who share a single purchased item, will no longer meet the dine-in requirements.

Customers who wish to remain for more than 90 minutes may, subject to seat availability, make an additional purchase and request an extension of their stay. If other customers are already waiting for seats, however, existing customers will be required to rejoin the queue and make an additional purchase before being seated again.

Starbucks said the arrangement is intended to improve seating management and the overall customer experience during busy periods, allowing more customers to make use of its in-store seating. The company added that such measures will be determined based on the actual operating conditions, customer traffic and seating utilisation of individual outlets.

Starbucks has not confirmed whether the arrangement will be extended to other outlets, stating only that it will continue to review the measures and make adjustments where appropriate.

https://hk.finance.yahoo.com/news/香港消費-starbucks阻齋坐打躉-推堂食限時90分鐘-低消-杯飲品或-094117145.html

 

[virtualape]

siao..30 mins can already....hot coffee also become cold. iced coffee ice also melted.

90 mins can go shenzhen and come back. and also must have macbook as a mandatory equipment.

 

[Prime 13]

The worst are performative students pretending to study.
While are actually SABSing.

Boys are wear trendy and are there to beo the girls. But never pick up the courage to approach any.

While girls are wear shorts to show off legs, some with obligatory jacket with one side pulled down to show off bare skin shoulder.

Their ice drink ish all melted with puddle of water at the base.
Lolz.

 

[spunkbrat]

The worst are performative students pretending to study.
While are actually SABSing.

Boys are wear trendy and are there to beo the girls. But never pick up the courage to approach any.

While girls are wear shorts to show off legs, some with obligatory jacket with one side pulled down to show off bare skin shoulder.

Their ice drink ish all melted with puddle of water at the base.
Lolz.

 

[ShinnAsuka]

If other customers are already waiting for seats, however, existing customers will be required to rejoin the queue and make an additional purchase before being seated again.

Think this is the illogical part.

Which kumgong will do this?

 

[BBClone]

If the customer buys another item, he/she should be able to extend the stay at a table without rejoining the queue.

And make it 2 hours lah, what is 90 mins… at least make it easy for the staff and customers to gauge length of time.

 

[born2fly]

Follow luckin coffee chain just take and go only 2 small tables

 

[brianlee_73]

I am simply curious why Starbucks faces a hogging issue while other brands like Coffee and Tea do not?

 

[Shion]

sg shld follow suit

 

[Acetone]

90 min already give a lot of face liao… Sinkie hoggers put their bags and hog the whole day.

 

[deodorant]

There are some starbucks / coffee shops in SG that say 60 mins limit ... I don't see anyone enforcing though.

 

[Full_Cream_Milk]

The worst are performative students pretending to study.

Ha exactly.

And many of them have this “gek seh” face like racking their brains focusing very hard.

Like “this is it, my session here at Starbucks today will decide whether I become a doctor or not!”

Everytime walk past those one whole row of students I will roll my eyes.

Get a life lah

 

[rizhal]

Coffee bean manager told me I cannot open my laptop during the peak lunch hours. City centre branch in SG.

 

[bruiser69]

Not heypi just don’t patronize. End of story

 

[Ethan_]

The worst are performative students pretending to study.
While are actually SABSing.

Boys are wear trendy and are there to beo the girls. But never pick up the courage to approach any.

While girls are wear shorts to show off legs, some with obligatory jacket with one side pulled down to show off bare skin shoulder.

Their ice drink ish all melted with puddle of water at the base.
Lolz.

Erm, sua-ku, simi is SABSing?

 

[Ethan_]

90 min already give a lot of face liao… Sinkie hoggers put their bags and hog the whole day.

Always saw local one in popular places like almost always full. Not sure is really got business or mostly hoggers.

 

[dereth]

Starbucks Hong Kong has introduced a trial 90-minute dine-in limit at two of its outlets in busy shopping malls. Each dine-in customer is also required to purchase at least one drink or one food item. The measures are aimed at addressing the issue of customers occupying seats for prolonged periods while making little or no purchase.

Starbucks Hong Kong and Macau confirmed that the 90-minute dine-in arrangement is currently being trialled at its outlets in New Town Plaza, Sha Tin, and Metroplaza, Kwai Fong, from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. daily. Both outlets are located in high-traffic shopping malls where demand for seating is particularly high during lunchtime, afternoon tea hours and weekends, making them the first locations selected to trial the stricter seating-management measures.

Customers wishing to dine in will be assigned seats by staff and issued a “time-limit card” stating their table number, seating time and details of their “90-minute dine-in period”. As a basic condition for dining in, each customer must purchase at least one drink or one food item. This means that customers who occupy seats without making any purchase, or groups who share a single purchased item, will no longer meet the dine-in requirements.

Customers who wish to remain for more than 90 minutes may, subject to seat availability, make an additional purchase and request an extension of their stay. If other customers are already waiting for seats, however, existing customers will be required to rejoin the queue and make an additional purchase before being seated again.

Starbucks said the arrangement is intended to improve seating management and the overall customer experience during busy periods, allowing more customers to make use of its in-store seating. The company added that such measures will be determined based on the actual operating conditions, customer traffic and seating utilisation of individual outlets.

Starbucks has not confirmed whether the arrangement will be extended to other outlets, stating only that it will continue to review the measures and make adjustments where appropriate.

https://hk.finance.yahoo.com/news/香港消費-starbucks阻齋坐打躉-推堂食限時90分鐘-低消-杯飲品或-094117145.html

This move should be to counter the influx of PRC tourists who would hog the place for a whole day and would not even order a single drink.

They just sit around to eat and drink their own stuff and hog the free power outlets.

Global barnacles.

 

[Hello_Kitty]

sg shld follow suit

i support

 

[buttbERry]

how about over here?

 

[Prime 13]

Erm, sua-ku, simi is SABSing?

SABS = Seen And Be Seen.
Ish to ownself display ownself for others to see and approach.

Although SABSing concept ish supposed to be gender neutral, in reality it ish mostly employed by females.

For more info see here: https://www.vice.com/en/article/int...ating-app-trend-taking-over-college-campuses/

Noticed everyone in the article from author to people interviewed are females.