Trends And Issues In Starbucks

Three of the current trends and issues facing managers are staffing, hiring new employee, and competition. For instance, one of the issues that a first-line manager might face on a daily bases is having just enough on the floor employees. Meaning, if the shift manager was to schedule to many employees or in the case of Starbucks barista, then the shift manager will have some barista standing aside not doing anything because there is someone else already taking care the it. Like-wise, if the shift is short staffed, the shift manager will end up with unhappy customers because customers would have to wait for a longer time before they would get served. Not all customers are patient; therefore some of them would rather leave and get served at different

India is known to prefer tea as their primary drink, so it would hard to tell how Indian would react towards a coffee house.

If Starbucks was to partner up with a company that is specialized in making food it might be a risky choice to make.Although branching out might mean increase in a profit, it does not necessarily mean it will succeed. Sometimes partnerships that are specialized in the same industry don’t work, how about partnering up with one that company is specialized in producing food, and one in coffee. This is a definitely a risky action to make.

P1-11 Biases and errors can affect the decision making done by Starbucks executive, store manager, and Starbucks partner significantly. For instance, if Starbucks wants to branch out even more, for example lets say that Starbucks wants to open a new store in India, but the partner refuses to invest, and chooses to walk out because of being overconfidence bias which it means thinking that they know more than they actually do, instead of conducting further research, the partner would have lost a chance of making a huge profit if Starbucks would have