Covid-19 (Coronavirus) and Coffee Shops

How to Protect Yourself in Starbucks and other Places

 
​Covid-19 is growing all over the world, and is likely to continue.  We need to find ways to project ourselves, including when we are in a coffee shop.  This disease will last for some time so we need to be better prepared.
 
Starbucks and other coffee shops are enacting cleaning routines to help minimize the virus.  But no matter how often you clean, there is still a chance of transmitting the virus on door handles, handling money, goods on the shelves, and on the 'condiment bar' where you can add sugar, milk, chocolate powder, and so on.

Paying with your phone is a good practice, and reduces touch points at the register.  Starbucks has a very good payment app.
 
The bigger problem is the 'condiments bar' where you get the sugar, creamers, and spices.  If everyone is touching those, then it becomes an easy place to spread a virus.  Its not realistic for a flood of people to be using hand sanitizer over and over again, either.  So the solution is to have the Barista do it.  The Barista has all of those items, and is the only person touching them. 
 
Just explain what you want, when you order your drink and you will get a great tasting coffee, and will have protected yourself, too!
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