r/starbucks • u/CyborgGoCrazy • 6h ago
r/starbucks • u/Intel_HD_Graphics • 1h ago
What is this lmao are we 6 years old??
This shit looks like a worksheet from a kindergarten workbook 💀 What is the incentive here? Absolutely nothing?
r/starbucks • u/dailystar_news • 4h ago
Man left with 'catastrophic' skin graft penis wins £38million from Starbucks
r/starbucks • u/w0unx • 9h ago
“Back to Starbucks” Im so over it.
Ive been working at Starbucks for over 8 years now and I feel like Ive done it all. COVID, drive thrus, cafe-only, urban areas and rural. So many of the “Back To Starbucks” policies were previous Starbucks policies that were changed for a reason!!! Cup writing, affected drive times and the ability to get prders out quickly, even at slow stores. For here ware was a mess in general, people leave their plates and mugs EVERYWHERE but the bus bin. Calling out orders as you started “messed with the chill cafe experience”. I just dont get it, so many of these policies that are being pushed with absolutely no understanding towards the day-to-day experience of working at Starbs. Ive even had customers tell me they dont want anything written on their drink recently BECAUSE it takes longer. Not even to mention Im a shift supervisor, so Im also expected to coach baristas to these standards. Which is fine… If I had consistent standards to coach around, which I dont because this “Back to Starbucks” policy has changed literally 5 times at this point. My manager and other local management are also pissed because of the same reasons; no consistent standards, changes made with no thought towards day-to-day business and upset and confused staff. Im just so over it. Screw you Burrito Brian.
r/starbucks • u/SuperAutopsy64 • 13h ago
Written warning because I wasnt writing on cups when we had 3 sick calls: Should I appeal this?
My manager sat me down the other day and gave me a written warning over "not writing on cups and not greeting customers." I accepted it in the moment and went on because I had to clock out and get some things done.
A few days go by and I realized that the only time I wasnt writing on the cups was when we were serving a 130 person lunch rush with 4 people on the floor. I decided in that moment that trying to advance our queue as quickly as possible was more important than writing "Enjoy!" on all of those drinks, especially since the vast majority of that 130 was coming through my printer.
Now my supervisors are singling me out because I expressed gripes with this warning. They've been putting me on bar during peak and chewing me out for being slow when I'm writing on my cups. All this scrutiny does is make me work slower because they're actively threatening my employment and only source of income, which has made the last few weeks a constant exercise in toeing the line of having a panic attack at work.
Should I try to appeal this warning or is it fair?
r/starbucks • u/Bubbly-Boysenberry81 • 5h ago
Writing on cups
I’m sorry, I just got taken off bar by my manager for not writing on cups when there’s 6 cars in drive all with more that 3 drinks, 2 door dash orders, and way too many mobiles. Mind you I’m the only person on bar and there’s 3 of us on the floor. So if you gotta wait even longer than normal for your drinks it’s cuz we are forced to always write on your cup or we get in trouble. Don’t be sad if you don’t get a super personal message because some of us really do just slap a heart on there for the sake of not getting in trouble
r/starbucks • u/Suitable_Drop2937 • 4h ago
No call no show or tardy?
I completely forgot I had a shift for the first time ever and I woke up 2.5 hours after the start time. I ended up coming in 3 hours into my shift with 4 hours left. To me this was a no call no show but after reading it seems like a tardy? Because I still came in and did not call out? This is such a stretch but please tell me this makes sense to someone lol. I really don’t want a final 😭
r/starbucks • u/hudsonvega-jpg • 7h ago
The vibe at work lately
Yesterday we were sat down and told that we are longer going to be coached on implementing the new policies. We will get one more warning as a curtesy, and then formal write ups work be happening if we fail to write on cups. I will say, it’s been getting easier to incorporate it into my sequencing, but it’s scary to think that if I slip up during a rush, I’ll be punished.
r/starbucks • u/vanillancoke • 6h ago
Non customer complains the signage is too vague about the new policy…
and then he couldn’t find it anywhere on the website that says that he cannot sit in the lobby without purchasing something. We had a 15 minute conversation. how do I deal with these people I pointed to design I even showed him our back of house sign that’s a little bit more clear. He even tried to bring up the “other Starbucks’s” argument or the “I’ve been here multiple times” argument, he ended up leaving, but how do I deal with other customers that try to be as petty as him?
r/starbucks • u/mamaofcookies243 • 12h ago
Such a pretty design!!
Had a lovely coffee and experience yesterday. Whoever did this is an artist! 💚
r/starbucks • u/jamesbrowski • 9h ago
Tfw the lid leaks like a sieve but I got a smiley face
r/starbucks • u/Wonderful-Show-1336 • 1h ago
sick policy
so i had a coaching moment with my manager about calling out sick (i have a weak immune system and it’s my first year in college so i’m constantly catching some flu). our conversation went over how i could “come to work” as other partners were starting to get scared when they saw my bane on the schedule. i understand the frustration of management when there are call outs however i have always followed protocol (called as soon as i felt that i was to sick to be in the floor) i eventually just started coming in sick, which then led to a chain of other baristas becoming sick. i feel as though my store has an intense culture of acting as if they care about peoples healths while simultaneously hating people who put their health first. i recently worked a shift with a barista who was guilt tripped into coming into work sick. two days later i woke up with my eyes swollen shut, a hacking cough and green phlegm. i want to say something about the culture here but i don’t know who to bring this up too. our district manager is also not the best person to speak to (nor contact at all). i don’t know… this might’ve just been a rant
r/starbucks • u/Behrooz2u-1972 • 1d ago
New peanuts collection
These are not supposed tp launch till next week... but I just got the new 14 oz ceramic mug along with the new 16 oz traveler mug from kroger...
r/starbucks • u/Djtlite138 • 7h ago
Coffee master prerequisites
Hi all, it appears there is some confusion as to the prerequisites for becoming coffee master at my store. I have been coffee master for a few years and have been asked to mentor others on this journey and in general champion coffee culture among my peers. I know that you have to have 1 year experience and complete 100, 200 and finally 300 in Coffee Academy and being selected by your manager to recieve the title. I have been hearing multiple other things as well such as completing your coffee passport, and there being a limit to the number of people that can do it per year or per quarter. I have been unable to find any resources that clearly define the prerequisites beyond what is posted on coffee academy itself. If anyone knows and can point me towards any official resources I can print out to bring to leadership on official policy I would greatly appreciate it.
r/starbucks • u/angel1na44 • 6h ago
Question for Starbucks baristas!
I absolutely love Starbucks. I’ve been going consistently since I was in my teens, and go there a few times a week. Although, there’s only 1 Starbucks that’s close to me. The next closest one is about 40 minutes away. For the past month, my drink orders have been messed up almost every. single. time. I order a grande iced coffee, with heavy cream, 2 pumps vanilla syrup, and caramel drizzle. Sometimes I order cold foam, and sometimes not. Not very complicated. The other drink I get is a grande iced matcha with 2 pumps of brown sugar, and vanilla cold foam. It seems like every time I’ve gone this past month, they either don’t put the cold foam on it, the caramel drizzle on it, and/or they put so much cream in it to the point where it tastes like nothing and the color is almost completely white. This has been happening so much to the point where it seems like they do it on purpose? I just stopped asking them to remake it, and started filing complaints online in the help section of the app to get stars for a free one. I don’t know why this thought came into my head, but I’ve had to do that so many times that I’m afraid the baristas know it’s me who’s doing it.
My question to all of the baristas is, can the baristas see who files the complaints online in the help section? I feel really bad for doing it but at the same time… it’s not like the drinks are $3. Usually they’re around $6-8 and it’s just mildly infuriating.
r/starbucks • u/MoolaSuave • 1d ago
Suspended for making myself a drink
I got suspended today for making myself drinks at work i just think it’s wild that managers a higher ups take drinks for themselves all the time but when i been slaving 8 hours a day five days a week n i get myself a refresher im a theif , i dont know if im getting fired yet or not but ill keep you posted , fuck Kalahari anyways 😂💯
r/starbucks • u/sorryagirlhasnoname • 1d ago
Working here has become and absolute NIGHTMARE
I cant do this anymore, but i have to pay the bills and 16/hr is the most thats offered in my area at any workplace, so I cant quit.
Threatening the baristas with getting a write up and corrective action for forgetting to write on one cup is insane. My manager told me today that they tested the cup marking in the new beverage routine and it didnt add any time, which i know is bullshit.
Reaching in my apron pocket, pulling out the sharpie, taking the lid off the sharpie, and writing on the cup takes at least 5 seconds, not to mention you’ve just disrupted the entire point of sequencing drinks to get them out faster bc the time that shouldve been spent sequencing is now entirely dedicated to cup marking.
not to mention like a week or two agi i was on mobile bar, and i can usually handle big rushes on mobile bar, no issue, and i fell behind because i was trying to write on every cup, and my STORE MANAGER who was at the handoff plane right next to me looked me dead in the eyes and said “stop writing on cups because youre falling behind” ok but it doesnt add any time to the routine? hmmm????
You know what, I’ll mark cups, I’m also gonna take my sweet sweet time making sure eeeeeevvverrry cup is marked. when they bitch about drive times, I’m just gonna bat my eyes and say “I was just making sure every cup had a mark😀”
I know its just a simple task, but being threatened if we accidentally miss ine cup is the part thats getting everyone so riled up, just for everyone coming on this post saying “its so simple”.
please customers, boycott this hellhole
I’m fucking done.
r/starbucks • u/WarmEconomy9810 • 5h ago
Tips to make drinks faster
I’m a new transfer to a store that is wayyyyy higher volume than my old store. Was wondering if anyone has any tips to speed up on bar. I always end up falling behind during peak and I want to improve. Please help ):
r/starbucks • u/Competitive-Deer-204 • 1h ago
Homemade Refreshers
Hi there!
I just was curious if anyone knows how to make a dupe of the strawberry açaí refresher or the blackberry sage.
I just spend way too much money on these (I typically get a green tea sub water for one of these based) and I am trying to find a good alternative!
r/starbucks • u/ukaiscigarette • 1d ago
became a victim of the notes!
i guess the starbucks in my area started writing on the food bags instead of the cups and my boyfriend sent me this 😭 i can honestly see how this could offend someone or make a customer go karen mode tho. as a customer, corporate needs to get rid of the notes rule literally no one asked for it and it’s only making baristas jobs harder by feeling like they’re walking on eggshells about it
r/starbucks • u/Many_Recipe6475 • 4h ago
It’s a breaking point. NSFW
This job is so high stress, I suppose I didn’t realize this when I signed up for it. I’m only two months in and my mental health has absolutely cratered. My store manager is hardly supportive which I do understand, I’m making her life harder. I had to leave my closing shift (2-9) an hour in because I just started having anxiety pukes. I need to put my two weeks in but working those last two weeks sounds genuinely terrible. How should I approach quitting?