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Full History - 2021 - 04 - 18 - ID#mtoryn
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If corporate really loved us.... product edition. (self.starbucksbaristas)
submitted by oc_ua
They would:
1. Get rid if the VBH refresher and bring back the CLR.
2. Ditch the Raspberry syrup and bring back the Mango and Peach.
3. Throw out the Guava and bring back Blueberry and Pineapple.
4. Discontinue ALL layered Fraps with ridiculous toppings. See MCC and CRC.
5. Never give us Hellish limited Fraps. See "Witches Brew", "Unicorn", "Tie-Dye" etc.
6. Put a LIMIT on drink customizations, especially through the app where most people have no clue what they're doing. (I literally had someone order a venti Hot Chocolate, made with Almond milk, no whip, no mocha, extra hot... so steamed almond milk... (as HC no longer gets vanilla) then COMPLAIN that he wanted Hot CHOCOLATE and there was no chocolate in his drink.)

What product do you want to get rid of and have back in its place?

Sincerely,
265****
NotyourangeLbabe 54 points 2y ago
BRING BACK CLR
Also, spicy chorizo sandwich, ancho chicken chipotle panini, and mango syrup!!!

** Side note: Since coming back to Starbucks, I’m realizing how many people have no idea that mocha is chocolate. These people have no idea what they’re even ordering. I had some ask me for a “white drink” and I was so confused and they were like “You know, like a white mocha but without the mocha” and I was like...yea that’s milk
oc_ua [OP] 21 points 2y ago
I was never a fan of the way the Chorizo smelled but I really miss the Chicken Sausage Bacon, that cornbread bun was so damn good.
HamiltonPolka 6 points 2y ago
I can’t stand the taste and texture of eggs. So for me it was nice to have a breakfast sandwich that didn’t come with egg
oc_ua [OP] 3 points 2y ago
EXACTLY! Eggs are gross and people judge me hard-core for that, but I don't care. It was so nice to have something I didn't have to pick the egg off of that was flavorful.
NotyourangeLbabe 2 points 2y ago
I’m so sad they discontinued that one. I was a little weary of it and only had it once right before they discontinued it. It was amazing and I kind of wish I didn’t know what I was missing out on
oc_ua [OP] 3 points 2y ago
We frequently (between partners, never to customers) called them "Gravy Blasters" at my store. I'll never forget them for that reason alone. 😂
HamiltonPolka 37 points 2y ago
Customer: “Can I have a mocha cappuccino”

Me: “.... Are you sure? You want foamy hot chocolatey drink?”

“Yes.”

*after making it*

“Why is this hot? This isn’t what I ordered”

It sure as shit is buddy
sammiipiie 10 points 2y ago
IT SURE AS SHIT IS BUDDY 👏🏼👏🏼
the1noir 25 points 2y ago
Ok, I agree with everything you said but lay off the guava. I live for the guava passion fruit drink. It’s my fav.
andrewdee0 24 points 2y ago
I would say ditch the pineapple ginger and bring back the mango syrup.... raspberry tastes too good in passion tea lemonade & strawberry açaí 😶
rosaleenajdek 5 points 2y ago
CLR. CLR. CLR. BRING IT BACK.
_circuts 1 points 2y ago
Wait... What is clr?
freetofeelfree 1 points 2y ago
Cool lime refresher
_circuts 1 points 2y ago
Sounds like a good summer drink idk if I would drink it though. Not a big fan of any of the refreshers.
lunarlandscapes 24 points 2y ago
The mocha thing! The amount of times I've had people confused is ridiculous.

"Gimme a mocha, but not with mocha"
"So.... like, a latte with whipped cream?"
"No, I don't want any coffee, just chocolate"

Or

"Gimme a hot chocolate with only 1 pump chocolate"
"OK, so a hot cocoa with only one pump mocha..."
"NO MOCHA. I WANT HOT CHOCOLATE, NOT COFFEE"

Even alternatively-

"OK so a grande white mocha, anything else"
"No, a grande white CHOCOLATE mocha"
Scuffleshuffle 20 points 2y ago
To be fair, calling chocolate sauce 'mocha' is confusing for someone who doesn't know Starbucks terminology. Similarly to the disappointment when new customers order a 'tall' and find out it is a small.

A mocha, to the Starbucks uninitiated, is generally coffee and chocolate mixed. So calling it mocha sauce to them would likely make them believe it's some sort of coffee/chocolate mix sauce.

I feel like corporate calling it chocolate sauce would alleviate the confusion.

There is also a strain of coffee beans called 'mocha'... and while unlikely to be known to most people it could also be an explanation for the confusion.
mikenzla21 18 points 2y ago
Blueberryyyyyyyyyy I want it back so bad blueberry black tea lemonade was my drink
StormTheParade 12 points 2y ago
expired 234 here...

1. No. Get rid of VBH, fuck CLR (sorry, cool lime was disgusting), bring back VALENCIA!!!

2. No heckin way, raspberry is fantastic. But also a massive +1 to bringing mango and peach back.

3. can't comment on Guava, haven't had it yet!

4. I honestly don't know why anybody would even *want* a layered frap. But I'm also a whipped cream-hating heathen so...

5. Fuck spark fraps. That is all.

I'm also in agreement for preventing some of the really weird, massively over-customised drinks, but I wonder how exactly that would be implemented. I thought briefly about a limit where you can't *take away* from a base drink, only add to it, but I worry that something like that would lead to over-complicating other drinks. Hmm.

Also - get rid of cold foam, bring back smoothies. Not the shitty weird cold brew ones, the REAL ones.
dthomp0806 2 points 2y ago
Orange refresher and passion tea was amazing. I cannot believe we still sell the berry hibiscus. Yuck. That is the worst one. They should give us a watermelon one too, that would be so good.
sammiipiie 1 points 2y ago
Omg I miss the Valencia orange SO BAD
luckysilverdragon 12 points 2y ago
Can anyone explain to me why people dislike the VBH so much? I’ve had it and it tastes nice, not as good as MDR or SAR, but it’s better than the KSF one anyways in my opinion
sunflowercupcakee 20 points 2y ago
Tbh, it really isn’t hard for anything to the taste better than KSF
luckysilverdragon 7 points 2y ago
Seriously! It tastes like a flat green monster drink or something. Yet, it’s more popular at my store than VBH?? Makes 0 sense to me.
dazedandconfusedhere 8 points 2y ago
I love the VBH 🥺
chowderchop 1 points 2y ago
Same, it's my favorite refresher :/
AMarie-MCMXCI 3 points 2y ago
I LOVE the VBH, it's my go to when I don't know what else to get. Get rid of kiwi, it's nasty and no one ever orders it. Bring back blueberry.
FreeeeezeYourBraain 3 points 2y ago
the VBH is my absolute favorite refresher but i started after VOR and CLR were discontinued
scmfckwaido 2 points 2y ago
I stg the KSF refresher would only be good with alcohol
tenthwalker 4 points 2y ago
Can confirm, good blended with tequila
oatmealstan 7 points 2y ago
the violet drink absolutely slaps in my opinion so i can’t get on board with the first one....but i’m totally down for getting rid of the KSF refresher and bringing back literally anything else that’s ever existed bc the KSF is just gross. definitely in favor of bringing back mango and peach, but i vote to keep raspberry bc it’s so good in black tea. 100% agree with 3, 5, and 6. but as for 4...i actually like making the MCC and CRC if it’s not too busy. sincerely, 291**** who was a long-time customer before becoming a partner and just really misses the mango black tea lemonade
oc_ua [OP] 6 points 2y ago
The KSF is rarely ordered at our store so I forget about it sometimes. 😂 But yes, I agree its gotta go. I'd be fine with keeping Raspberry, because I do occasionally use it, but we have people who put upwards of 10 pumps of it in one drink. 🤮 As for the layered Fraps, they're just entirely over ordered at our store, and create so much extra waste.
JustAnotherRyan5 6 points 2y ago
Does anyone remember the melon syrup from like literally a million years ago? So good in the black tea!! Also yeah CLR or Valencia Orange they both slapped and VBH is meh. Is it weird that I liked the raspberry more when it was red? I know it was just coloring but still...
chellichelli 1 points 2y ago
Melon syrup! Oof. That was even before my time and I’m a 168xxxx. If i recall melon was the default syrup in the matcha green tea latte? 🤔
JustAnotherRyan5 1 points 2y ago
Yeah it was easily 10+ years ago for sure. I’m a 192**** but I left and rehired haha! I cheated LOL
reclusivegiraffe 6 points 2y ago
lots of people like the VBH refresher, guava, and raspberry, and layered fraps aren’t a big deal at all. they’re maybe a tiny bit inconvenient, but the .2 seconds that i spend putting whip at the bottom of a cup change literally nothing. wanting old flavors back is valid, but literally none of this is anti-employee.
astivana 8 points 2y ago
My experience is that layered fraps don’t sequence very well.
oc_ua [OP] 6 points 2y ago
THANK YOU. Like if we have literally nobody, I enjoy them because I like to make them look nice, but its not worth it. I do want to keep the dark caramel sauce though.
the-troijan-horse 5 points 2y ago
288**** here so I wasn't around for them, but a few of the partners at my store who have been around longer talk about the Valencia Orange refresher and I would love to try that (along with the Cool Lime one!)
cringeqween13 4 points 2y ago
I'm cool with the layered drinks that we have recipe cards for but when people want to customize their own layered frapp or want an ombre refresher that's when I judge people. Also I really hope we don't get rid of guava any time soon. At least not until I find other non coffee drinks I like other than the peach green tea Lemonade
tenthwalker 1 points 2y ago
Very berry hibiscus refresher sub passion tea for water is my jam in the summer
ayy-shane 3 points 2y ago
did you really just say throw out guava......
sweet-seat 2 points 2y ago
guava is good but has a horrible aftertaste so i wouldn't care if it was gone forever.

they need to get rid of KSF at the very least. and please, for the love of god, bring back the chicken artichoke panini. my entire store falls into a deep
depression anytime someone asks for it because it was so loved.
a_rolley 2 points 2y ago
idk if everyone one has seen the new strawberry funnel cake frap but 😭😭😭 we're staying in layered hell for a while
Aliciarox11189 2 points 2y ago
VBH is nice ... better than that kiwi crap it smells so bad
Aliciarox11189 2 points 2y ago
I see someone hasn't read the summer training with the new funnel cake frap
FreeeeezeYourBraain 2 points 2y ago
i read "get rid of VBH" and my immediate reaction was "fuck you"

why are you praying on my downfall?????
CobaltLemon 2 points 2y ago
I’ll die for the VBH. I’m allergic to mango and kiwi. Starbucks refreshers went and said “Fuck you specifically” to me. 😂

Our raspberry is disgusting. I don’t even understand how it can taste so bad.


I love and hate making layers frapps lol. It depends on the day. If I’m chugging along on hot bar and then get one odd ticket for a frapp I don’t think I’d like any frap at that moment.

I had a lady argue me one day that “white mocha” and “white chocolate mocha” taste different. I told her it’s just us shortening the name, but it’s the same drink.
Huge_Crab_7425 2 points 2y ago
To be fair, Starbucks discontinued spark frappucinos a while ago. I think the last one was the tie dye in summer 2019.
ianbz 1 points 2y ago
Leave my guava passionfruit alone!
jeonzelink 1 points 2y ago
i miss the cool lime refresher so much. and orange valencia. i love the mango black ice tea too. and does anyone remember the lemon ale???
libritheacacao 1 points 2y ago
Personally, I disliked the CLR, I'd prefer if they brought back the Valencia Orange Refresher, the blueberry juice, and the sangria syrup. And the Chili Mocha.
PluralPaul 1 points 2y ago
I know there are many people who enjoy it, but I dread toffee nut in any drink because the smell is so distinct and strong that it makes me sick
oc_ua [OP] 1 points 2y ago
Smells like buttered popcorn jelly belly's to me... 🤮
SpookyDaBaby 1 points 2y ago
But... I love the vbr imagine it mixed with the clr uggghhhhh.
BiochemistChef 1 points 2y ago
I agree with them all except the first. CLR is trash and I'll be very sad to see VBH go
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