Starbucks stores are being inundated with mobile orders, and that's drastically slowing down service and alienating customers.
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Starbucks revealed how it plans to fix its crisis of long lines in stores (SBUX)
Starbucks stores are about to get a makeover.
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz.
At a UBS conference this week, company executives revealed how they plan to fix the problem.
In the near-term, their solutions include adding more employees to stores to handle the influx of orders, UBS restaurant analyst
Starbucks also plans to make some small tweaks to the store layout to free up more space around the pickup counter.
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In the longer term, Starbucks is considering more drastic measures, including a complete reconfiguration of the store that would make room for two separate lines: one for in-store orders, and another for mobile orders, .
To free up space, the company is considering removing most of the merchandise like mugs from the stores, and instead selling those products online.
The longer-term fixes would likely be implemented within one to two years, Geiger said.
Starbucks revealed its issues with slowing service in January, after reporting that quarterly same-store transactions, a measure of customer traffic, dropped 2%.
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz blamed the drop in transactions on congestion from the popularity of mobile orders.
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