Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind
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I wonder if we could be more conscious about the food we throw. (self.starbucksbaristas)
submitted by Chirugu
I've been in Starbucks for about 5 months and I've seen that Starbucks tries to be as eco-friendly as possible. But setting the pastry case is regularly my job and everytime I do it, I get upset at how much food is getting wasted. I wonder if someone in HQ is working to figure out a way to save the perfectly good food we could be donating. :/
RepStewart 36 points 2y ago
I’ve been saying for years that the company would save so much money and waste if they just gave us 3-D printings of the pastry case options but 🤷🏻♀️
coolcootermcgee 15 points 2y ago
Non-employee here. Sorry for lurking. As a customer, none of the food looks very appetizing to us. We’ve ordered thousands of $ of coffee over the last 10 years at least. Which I totally agree is elitist and inarguably hedonistic. Point taken . Now, I Would totally eat the food if it looked palatable, which it honestly does not. I’m not a marketing specialist, so I don’t know why it all looks like crap, but it does and you’d have to pay me to eat the stuff in the case. If it was prettier, or looked more appetizing, I would have at least experimented with ordering the food. So yea, maybe plastic food would look tastier, along with saving a bunch of $$! Oh, and this is from Hawaii and all over the mainland. It all looks the same, that is to say, boring and not good.
mrsnataliehooper 16 points 2y ago
It usually looks terrible because people leave it up for 2 to 3 days before taking it down so it doesnt look fresh ://
hecaete47 11 points 2y ago
It looks terrible because it’s thrown together in 30 minutes by tired openers at like 4 am lol. But yeah, it’s truly not appetizing at all. Some customers really depend on it visually to order and freak out when we’re short an opener and couldn’t get the case set up before open though.
I just wish we had more creative control over it too. We have a corporate-created display that’s apparently focus grouped and all that but it generally doesn’t translate to space and plates/display tools that each store has available and just ends up crowded and busy. The best display cases I’ve seen have been when 1) our app with the display guide was down and 2) when we’ve been severely short on food due to a broken freezer and in both instances had to take creative control to make it work.
You’re not missing out on anything by not getting our food lol. Tho the lemon loaf and egg bites do slap.
I just wish we had more creative control over it too. We have a corporate-created display that’s apparently focus grouped and all that but it generally doesn’t translate to space and plates/display tools that each store has available and just ends up crowded and busy. The best display cases I’ve seen have been when 1) our app with the display guide was down and 2) when we’ve been severely short on food due to a broken freezer and in both instances had to take creative control to make it work.
You’re not missing out on anything by not getting our food lol. Tho the lemon loaf and egg bites do slap.
mrsnataliehooper 2 points 2y ago
& the chicken bacon panini
hecaete47 3 points 2y ago
Haven’t tried that one! But it’s really not popular at my store so we only order a couple lol
Chirugu [OP] 1 points 2y ago
I've been saying that!, but my boss is like meeeeh.
yukhentai 13 points 2y ago
for starters they could let partners take it home like i truly don’t get why they don’t. even if we had to sign a paper saying we acknowledge its considered expired or whatever so we couldnt sue, that’d be better than throwing it away.
Chirugu [OP] 5 points 2y ago
Generally, expired food is donated in my store (because it's fresh but not "starbucks" fresh) and it's not old old because someone comes every mon, wed and frid. But the pastry case seems like a huge waste to me.
yukhentai 5 points 2y ago
i get what you’re saying, maybe they could just have screens with pictures of the sandwiches 🤔
Alicat-and-Quasar 3 points 2y ago
My pastry case is full of flies so no partners want to take that food home. Guests have asked to have the case food when we have run out and my manager says we can give it to them but I always discourage it. 9/10 times they come back and want anything refund because they say it's stale 🙃🥴
juiceyluicy 9 points 2y ago
If I’m being honest, I don’t think the company actually cares. I think they just want customers to think they care. There is so much cardboard and plastic waste. But they want the outside consumers to think that they’re a progressive company when they’re really just the same as every other huge corporation.
juiceyluicy 3 points 2y ago
Also, they’ve made signs for bagels and wraps with the pictures, so they definitely can for everything else and make a conscious decision not yo
NervosaNervous 5 points 2y ago
One of our baristas takes the food to the fire department close by. They appreciate it so much. Such sweet guys.
kokiichiouma 2 points 2y ago
i don't know how often other stores change it, and i don't know if we do it as often as we're supposed to, but in my \~5 months working here we've only changed the pastry case when we've gotten new seasonal foods. so like twice. its too old and unhealthy at that point to give it to employees or donate it to the homeless and elderly like we do with "expired" foods.
Alicat-and-Quasar 3 points 2y ago
Wow. Every store I've worked at it had to be rotated out every few days. Do things not mold?
kokiichiouma 1 points 2y ago
no mold, dunno if it's because the display is sealed shut or not. but dust does get on them after a while.
FelicityCecilia 1 points 2y ago
Agreed! It really pisses me off too. DM came to my old store and cracked down on me giving our houseless neighbors the food we’d just toss at the end of the day (not pastry case that stuff is nasty) but like packaged stuff. Plus, fake recycle bins to make customers “feel better” about being so wasteful but they all go in the same dumpster.
BandagedBacon -3 points 2y ago
Most of the calories are low quality and unhealthy.
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