get the starbucks app and look through the drink recipes! or look through them if you have free time on POS.

Something I liked to do is take a chalk marker and write shots amounts/syrup pumps on the front of the bar, really quick reference to remind you how much of what to put in.

It never hurts to ask your ssvs for more practice when it slows down too :) and it your store has beverage cards printed, try and keep those on hand. You got this, amazing green bean :)

whenever i don’t know a recipe i tun over to the POS and punch it in. the right column shows all the syrups and toppings, so then you just have to think about the assembly!

Honestly for me it was working bar constantly while we were busy. It forced me to be comfortable with the machine and it helped with sequencing.

I was given the flash cards of the recipes when I was trained. And we had the little pad of paper where it lists the shots, syrups, milk, so on and so forth. I just had my friends give me the craziest orders and I’d write them down. I also would go through a recipe I learned at my store over and over at home through my head and walked through each step.

Sometimes I still forget because I believe I have FND, and sometimes I just second guess myself for no reason. I would download the app or go on the siren that has most of the drinks available. Or just use the POS to enter the drinks, but you will get the handle of it. I mostly learned on my own because no one ever had the time to train me. I think I would have learned the drinks quicker had they explained it more clearly. I would mostly get this one barista who would get mad anytime I tried to help out with bar because I still didn't know the drinks after the second month. I'd really like to know how well she did being new to making drinks. I actually think I learned pretty quickly in my opinion. It took me two and a half months maybe to learn all the drinks. My new sm was shocked and horrified he'd put me on bar when I came back from quarantine not knowing I hadn't been working there long. I never told him because I wanted more practice on bar and he told me hr thought I had been working there for a few years. I would also suggest writing down the standard way to make the drinks and then memorize which ones get an extra shot of espresso and syrup.

There are people who have worked at Starbucks for years that I encounter that still are in the dark about certain things, like the fact that hot chai tea lattes get water in them, though someone told me last week that now we only use milk. But I think that's wrong because the chai is concentrated. It makes sense to add water unless the customer ask's for a chai with no water.

at one point i started writing down drink recipes that i was having trouble with, i used the app usually

I knew the basic formula so that helped. When a drink came up I didn't know id simply ask someone. Like at the time I didn't know wtf was a caramel cloud was but I knew what a regular cm was. Just ask and don't forget. What I used for motivation was that if I got a drink sent back or o took an order wrong someone was gonna be mad at me. And I don't like that. So I made sure I listened and remembered.