Multiple Starbucks shops close abruptly this morning

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By Mark Fisher
May 23, 2012
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Several Starbucks stores in the Dayton area, and apparently elsewhere in the country, shut down abruptly this morning for unknown reasons.

Customers who headed to the Starbucks shop on Far Hills Avenue in Oakwood encountered locked doors and a sign saying the store was closed “for routine maintenance,” but those same customers noted there was nothing routine about being closed at 9 a.m. on a Wednesday. An employee said store managers were told to close down the store at about 7:30 a.m. this morning and wait for further instructions. Customers said stores on Brown Street and Mad River Road also were closed.

Posts on Starbucks’ Facebook page questioned why stores were closed in Ohio and Florida.

“This is the second time I’ve come by this morning,” Kristin Milligan of Kettering said at 9 a.m. outside the Oakwood Starbucks. “I was here an hour ago and the store was closed. I need my Starbucks.”

Daniel Gaines of Oakwood appeared stunned by the locked doors and the “closed” sign when he came for coffee, pound cake and to sit and do some work. “I’ll probably go to a competitor’s shop for some coffee and then go home,” Gaines said.

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Mark Fisher, a 1981 graduate of Ohio State University and a 1976 graduate of Beavercreek High School, is a third-generation Dayton-area resident who has worked for the Dayton Daily News since 1983. He covered higher education and K-12 education accountability issues for nearly 20 years before taking over the food and dining beat in 2006.