Starbucks will become the first national restaurant chain to require all customers to wear masks in stores
Starbucks is set to become the first national restaurant chain to require customers to wear masks in locations.
"In our continued effort in prioritizing the health and well-being of partners and customers, beginning on July 15, we will be requiring customers to wear facial coverings while visiting all company-owned café locations in the US," Starbucks representative Reggie Borges said in a statement to Business Insider on Thursday.
Starbucks employees will not be instructed to refuse to serve customers who are not wearing masks. Instead, they will be asked to wear a mask or directed towards other ordering options such as drive-thru or curbside pickup. as has been a growing concern at restaurants and retailers . If 95% of the US population wore face masks in public, the country could prevent roughly 33,000 COVID-19 deaths, according to a model from the University of Washington.
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