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Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind

Full History - 2019 - 08 - 11 - ID#cp6a03
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Why Don’t Customers Believe Us? (self.starbucksbaristas)
submitted by L1378622f
I’m on bar. We get an order for the caramel ribbon crunch and my coworker tells me the customer wants the crunchies on the bottom and the top. I do exactly as told and when I hand the drink to the customer she says, “I WANTED THIS LAYERED”.

Me: “yes I put the crunchies on both the bottom and top of the frappuccino.”

Her: “give me an empty cup”

Me: *hands her an empty cup of the same size*

Her: *proceeds to dump out her frappuccino into the empty cup while searching with her straw to find the crunchies*

Once she found them, she stood at the counter for a while but I was slammed with drinks and she finally left. I don’t understand why they think we are lying.
frapphater 31 points 3y ago
i mean, it was layered at first but she ruined it hahahaha
P_2_P 21 points 3y ago
Also do you not understand how sugar works. It fucking dissolves you animal
GiveMeCoffeeFreeze 12 points 3y ago
We literally ran out of cinnamon powder the other day. Told the lady at DT who wanted cinnamon on top of her coffee and she condescendingly said “oh reeeeeallly!? Starbucks out of CINNAMON....?”
Honestly I just want to be like “look lady, I wish I had it to give to you so you’d leave us the heck alone.”
mtngirl_ 7 points 3y ago
Last summer, one woman refused to believe that were we out of sugar in the raw. She was saying that we just didn’t want to go get it for her. I just wanted to say “Lady, we’re at the beach in July, we’ve had a line out the door all day, and starbucks runs out of shit all the time. Calm down”
GiveMeCoffeeFreeze 7 points 3y ago
I just don’t understand what they think we could possibly gain from not giving them something. Like frick, you think I wanna deal with your attitude?? Lol
lea-oppalove 8 points 3y ago
I'm so sorry you had to deal with such disrespectful and intolerable behavior from a customer like that. Personally that has never happened to me but I have unfortunately witnessed similar, to a much lesser degree of distrust between a customer and a barista.

Off the top of my head I can remember just yesterday, a customer didn't even believe that she had recieved the size she ordered was correct, and without even realizing it was putting her blatant ignorance on display by loudly exclaiming "This isn't the size I ordered. I ORDERED GRANDE." While holding the grande sized drink.

No "excuse me", nothing but arrogance as she yelled for literally no reason when the barista replied back calmly: that IS a grande. Customers were exchanging looks of disbelief between each other and us other baristas who had to stop our flow of routines to see what made her argue with a barista about the size which she didn't know was grande, even going so far as to ask "well can you make it in that size?", pointing at the cup the closest barista was holding, just about to hand off the next finished drink to another waiting customer.

She really wasted everyone's time for no reason and disrupted an otherwise smooth Saturday peak. I wish they didn't give up and give her the venti size, even though they gave the grande away for free and just wanted to get her out of there. That won't work next time, assuming she's brave enough to come back in and order correctly.

But why wouldn't she believe us, that she could have possibly confused the size name because often times people mistakenly refer to large size as grande, and why couldn't she admit that mistake or at the very least look at the cup that says GR on it before losing her cool? Some people just baffle me.
madems 3 points 3y ago
Where did that happen? I had the exact same conversation with a customer on Saturday
lea-oppalove 2 points 3y ago
It happened in a store in Yonkers, NY.
madems 2 points 3y ago
Wow. Same story, but in Toronto 🤣
lea-oppalove 3 points 3y ago
That has to validate, albeit in a small instance, how common this problem is amongst partners, at least among those working in areas where unfortunately we are forced to serve some of the most entitled and arrogant customers, while somehow maintaining our pride and dignity while apologizing and making moments right when they insist on making it wrong no matter what you do for them. I guess it helped me to have started the company in a store with those snooty types coming thru
METAXILLUS 4 points 3y ago
Some people are haters. They hate on everything.

I have no idea why they think everything is stupid. It boggles my mind that people are ok with feeling helpless like that.
CoffeeFueledFiction 2 points 3y ago
I had a customer call me “argumentative” today because I told her that her drink had probably been made correctly and then mixed together the few minutes she was in drive thru after she explained to me step by step how to make a Starbucks Doubleshot on Ice.

Like. Trust me. This is how physics work. Also, I work here and get that drink regularly, so uh.

But sure, we can remake it.
pleasesurpriseme 1 points 3y ago
I love that having a drink with specific ingredients in a specific order was so important for her, but she messed it up herself in order to try and prove someone wrong. I feel like if you had engaged with her anymore she would have asked you to remake it since it was a mess, but honestly I’m so glad you didn’t.

It’s so sad but I fully expected this to end with her angrily saying, “ok you’re right the crunch pieces were at the bottom, now can you make it again so I can drink it the way I wanted it?”
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