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Grande iced rant with extra caramel drizzle and Sweet Cream foam. (self.starbucksbaristas)

submitted by chstarr7

I’m sure you’ve all made this drink. Iced white Mocha with extra Caramel Drizzle and Sweet Cream foam with no whip. Well let me tell you how much I hate this stupid thing. First of all it’s almost $8 for a venti which is hilarious that people will pay that much. Second the Sweet Cream foam. It’s basically flat whip cream but instead of just getting whip cream you have to make me take and extra full minute and pay an extra dollar to make you sweet cream foam that already practically came on the drink. Third it made the foam popular and now people want it on EVERYTHING. I had to make a pumpkin frap with foam and whip ON TOP of the foam cause this lady found out about how SCF is just the BEST THING EVER and has to go on every single frickin’ iced drink. And now that it’s a thing people are going to ask for it until the end of time. We’ve got two foam pitchers ans three blenders and between salted foam, pumpkin foam fraps and this drink coming up every other order foam drinks and fraps take twice as long as the should because people can’t just get whip cream.

Hoax_Pudding_Cup 59 points 2y ago

*looks at my drive order, grande Chestnut Praline, hot, with cold foam*
*sighs loudly*

philosopher_cat_lady 21 points 2y ago

One of my fellow baristas said we're not allowed to put cold foam on hot drinks. But for those of you who do, the customer's stupid because my manager said the foam just sinks

Sad-Passenger4532 9 points 2y ago

Yeah I always say I don’t recommend that 😂

chstarr7 [OP] 9 points 2y ago

This lady has started getting a pumpkin frap with pumpkin foam and whip ON TOP of the foam everyday lately.

whycantibeamermaid 24 points 2y ago

Honestly, the white mochas with foam and drizzle don’t bother me nearly as much as some of the crazy “secret menu” drinks people want. Or almost any frapp.
People wanting the foam on everything is a little crazy, but the whole white mocha thing could be significantly worse.

closingshiftbarista 28 points 2y ago

That pink drink with the matcha in the sweet cream cold foam makes me wanna lose my shit so badly.

A close second is the one with the strawberry puree in the foam.

And then they ALWAYS ASK FOR A STRAW and it drives me insane

Brucius704 12 points 2y ago

Someone at my store made egg nog in a sweet cream pitcher with a sweet cream lid and with the pitcher tinted brown it looked the exact same, found out later I had made a pink drink with matcha EGG NOG FOAM.

MissCleoDarling 2 points 2y ago

Oh sweet lord oh no

whycantibeamermaid 7 points 2y ago

The matcha foam just looks nasty as hell to me. Blech.

And I know what you mean about the straw thing. Lol every time someone with a drink with foam asks for a straw I just stare at them like wtf

philosopher_cat_lady 10 points 2y ago

What's weird is that people will think I know what the fuck they're talking about. The only one I don't bother to tell people isn't official is the "cotton candy" frappuccino since it's so simple and popular amongst kids. Yesterday a man ordered a "Starburst drink." I thought he'd said, "Starbucks drink." He got annoyed that I was taking a couple seconds to respond to him since I was busy as balls doing drive-thru by myself during Happy Hour and I blurted out, "I don't know what you mean by 'Starbucks drink.'" Then I had to tell him not to read the weird-ass recipe so fast.

whycantibeamermaid 12 points 2y ago

Tell me about it. Like, I just don’t understand that type of behavior or mentality. I feel if I were in the position of ordering something only to be told it’s not real or a regular menu item I would be overly apologetic. But it’s the sense of entitlement that some people have. They are likely the same people that don’t listen to what you say or ask and are just waiting for their chance to speak. Like when you are busy in drive and say “thank you for choosing Starbucks, I’ll be right with you.” And they just start “yeah, can I get a-“

People are dicks.
But I digress.

I also just let the cotton candy Frappuccino thing slide. But what I really hate is when people order some random “secret menu” thing and they give me all the ingredients and when they get their drink they freak out that it doesn’t say whatever stupid drink they ordered. “Ummmmm I got a butterbeer frap, not this.” Da fuq

philosopher_cat_lady 4 points 2y ago

"Like when you are busy in drive and say 'thank you for choosing Starbucks, I’ll be right with you.' And they just start “yeah, can I get a-“" Can't stand that. They think what I'm saying isn't important and therefore don't listen. Very dehumanizing.

Also, if they followed directions, those recipes usually say: "When ordering, please tell your Starbucks barista this recipe, as they will not know what you're talking about if you tell them the title of this drink."

chstarr7 [OP] 9 points 2y ago

It’s more about not having enough blenders and pitchers and the constant “and xyz foam on top” than actually making the drink because it ends up taking like 2 minutes.

whycantibeamermaid 9 points 2y ago

Okay but it’s still better than having to make multiple frapps that are all different with two blenders. SCF takes like no time at all and little to no effort. You just pour sweet cream in the blender. I’m just saying it isn’t as bad as half of the shit people ask us to do or corporate expects us to do.

All I am getting at, is I understand things can be frustrating. Any type of service industry job has those aspects. But it’s a lot easier in the long run if you try to brush small things like that off. But we all have those things that get under our skin. Personally, I would make iced white mochas with sweet cream foam over multi layered frapps any fucking day. Or almost any Frappuccino.

chstarr7 [OP] 10 points 2y ago

Oh I agree I’d absolutely rather make the cold foam instead of fraps I was just ranting, I get want you’re saying.

perfecktenschlog 7 points 2y ago

yeah my store has one blender and one foam pitcher so count yourself lucky.

chstarr7 [OP] 5 points 2y ago

Honestly we need more but have no room for it. The whole behind the bar area is about 3 feet wide and the back of the store is 2 feet in most places because of storage. We’re the busiest store in the district.

philosopher_cat_lady 3 points 2y ago

We're operating without a pitcher rinser. And also for a long while we operated with one blender before our manager got fired

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philosopher_cat_lady 12 points 2y ago

The drink is disgusting. Once that drink started catching on I asked a woman if she'd seen it on the internet and she said yes. She asked me if I'd tried it and told me how it was \*so good\*. I said no. I thought to myself, 'I don't want to try that shit.' One of my shift supervisors had a woman ask her how to \*make the drink sweeter\*. My shift supervisor said, "Uh..well, I personally think that drink is already pretty sweet." "Oh, ok, I just didn't want it not to be sweet enough."

My point being that Starbucks should have a limit on drink customizations.

Ashesremindme 8 points 2y ago

I did try it once. I'm not a fan of white mocha, but I love our caramel, and one of my partners made a tall one and split it between us so we could both try it. Holy crap. I felt sick for an hour after drinking half a tall. I cannot imagine drinking a whole ass venti.

philosopher_cat_lady 3 points 2y ago

I guess some people are used to eating pounds of sugar and fat in one day

meloscav 3 points 2y ago

I mean, it’s probably America. I’m just lucky the neighborhood I work is full of very health-conscious older Indian immigrants—they usually order shorts and talls and typically don’t like super sweet stuff. It’s just the overflow from the colleges and the other neighborhoods that give us TikTok drinks.

chstarr7 [OP] 7 points 2y ago

This lady mobile ordered and iced caramel macchiato and the sticker was 4 inches long because if modifications. She came back about 10 minutes after picking it up saying it was made wrong, then asked “ Do I have to tell you the whole thing again” when we said we’d remake it.

converter-bot 13 points 2y ago

4 inches is 10.16 cm

Chef_Spaetzle 8 points 2y ago

Good bot

philosopher_cat_lady 3 points 2y ago

Exactly. Starbucks should have a strict one-inch customization limit

noir_fae 11 points 2y ago

Have you had customers try to request cold foam with syrup in in yet 😅

Simplyroro 10 points 2y ago

Peppermint mocha cold foam. I asked what she meant, she said well instead of vanilla sweet cream cold foam make it Peppermint mocha cold foam ... then got mad at me for having to train me ... this 153 old lady doesn't intimidate easily and I let her know that's not really a thing but I will blend it just for you.

Michigoose99 3 points 2y ago

Many customers do not understand that VSCCF is made from something already mixed. Like we can add pumpkin to it but we can't substitute the basic ingredients because they're already in there. Headache.

noir_fae 1 points 2y ago

Ya.... I refuse
It’s Pandora’s box. Also most other modifications are built into the menu- custom foams are not

noir_fae 1 points 2y ago

NOPE, if it not a foam on the menu and you can’t order it on the app - probs not going to make for you

isglitteracolor 9 points 2y ago

I still can’t get over the regular who gets this drink made with heavy whipping cream instead of milk. It’s....so....thick

cauliflowergorl 2 points 2y ago

i’ve had to make a pink drink with heavy whipping cream instead of coconut milk and it honestly made me 🤢🤢🤢

Stella_2020 8 points 2y ago

I work at a very busy store we make batches of pumpkin cold foam and vanilla sweet cream cold foam and pour it into a grande/ venti iced cups and always have it on standby so we don’t individually make each drinks cold foam. I don’t know if my description makes sense or not but basically work smarter not harder. Foam stays foamy and mixed for about 20 minutes and if it flattens out just put the whole cup back into the little blender.

chstarr7 [OP] 3 points 2y ago

Our SM won’t let us batch foam like that, and neither do the SSV’s. The most we can do is double the recipe in the pitcher.

Stella_2020 2 points 2y ago

Oh I see, I am a ssv and we are a really busy store so we gotta find shortcuts where we can. 🤷🏽‍♀️

chstarr7 [OP] 2 points 2y ago

We’re the busiest store in our district, but our SM is super strict about shortcut stuff like batching fraps or prepping foam like that.

BeardiesRule112 5 points 2y ago

Your SM needs to get a life. Couldn’t be me.

MonstrousGiggling 6 points 2y ago

3 blenders??? Jealous, we have 2. Busiest store in the district too.

chstarr7 [OP] 4 points 2y ago

One of our partners who does food like all the time convinced lot SM to get a third oven too.

iWantToBeARealBoy 6 points 2y ago

People have started asking for it on hot drinks now. Just get whip cream....

Diamondilium 5 points 2y ago

Preach

deeperdead 4 points 2y ago

I think the whip is enough because it has heavy cream , both taste kinda the same for me

chstarr7 [OP] 3 points 2y ago

E X A C T L Y. The sweet cream foam is flat whip that costs a dollar extra.

official_koda_ 4 points 2y ago

Why the hell do people get cold foam on hot drinks. It’s so common recently. It’s so hard for me to not say “that’s weird”

TheYesExpress 2 points 2y ago

The other day this lady ordered a venti Mango Dragonfruit with Lemonade and VSCCF and I just had to make sure that’s what she really wanted it. It was.

strawberryrum_ 2 points 2y ago

Totally agree I hate making that shit but I low key understand because that foam is so good 🤭🤭

Sorrythatsmybadd 2 points 2y ago

At least you have more than 2 blenders lol

mewwissa 1 points 2y ago

Gawd the amount of heavy cream and sugar these people drink is 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

Avuneon 1 points 2y ago

I had someone ask for SC cold foam at the bottom and top of a drink....

RoaringDragonite 1 points 2y ago

I feel this. Today I made an blonde almond milk honey flat white WITH VSC. What.... what?!

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