Starbucks updated thier Coffeehouse Code of Conduct across North American locations. The biggest change? No more Open Door Policy. Is this a sign of DEI changes?

The new rules reverse an open-door policy put in place in 2018, after two black men were arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks where they had gone for a business meeting.

The new code of conduct also bans discrimination or harassment, consumption of alcohol, smoking, drug use, and panhandling in company owned stores.

Starbucks, long synonymous with the idea of a "third space" between home and work, has reversed its open-door policy.

Its "open door policy" is now being altered, ostensibly to "deter homeless people and non-paying customers who have come to use Starbucks solely for shelter and bathroom access," as per Jordan Valinsky and Nathaniel Meyersohn with CNN. You must now be a paying customer to use the space.