Your nametag functions perfectly well as a boxcutter for the purposes of opening cup boxes and inclusion bags.

You can use tall dome lids as a funnel for filling up cin/van/nut/cdt shakers. They fit perfectly on top of the shaker.

The shaker top fits perfectly on a grande and venti iced cup and saves a lot of time with milk creations especially with double barring.

Coorporate this is a joke. I always 100% shake everything in a shaker according to standard and have never tested this once.

Not sure if we're supposed to do this but I steam room temp water in the pitcher with lemonade with making a HCMT. One less step for me since our hot water tap is on the other side of the floor from our lemonade dispenser.

drink hack: add two salt packets to a grande or venti sized latte w toffee nut or caramel syrup for a perfect salted caramel-y taste, (hot or iced)

-use the oven scrapers and some window cleaner to perfectly scrape off all of the syrup on the glass and the covid dividers

-when cutting bagels hold the bagel upright and in the plastic and cut straight through the middle

-after wiping the outside of the espresso machines with a sani rag use the paper towels to make them all shiny

-put avocado spread on ur ham and cheese croissant, bagels, etc. (makes it so much better)

-steam some milk or half and half in the pitcher to the short line and pour it in your oatmeal

-put a piece of warming paper under the caramel bottles if they have been leaking for less of a clean up

I put the hot/cold water in a pitcher while I’m pulling espresso for americanos, it helps save time and cuts back on the annoying foam you get when using the taps for an iced americano!

Putting nitro lids on the cup before pouring in the NCB 🤓 you just put the spout through the hole LOL I saw one of my coworkers do it and was amazed honestly

I like to cut bagels by holding them vertically with the tongs -- so that the hole on the bagel faces to the left -- and slice straight down with the knife in my other hand. Quick and easy slice with no way to cut yourself. I've seen partners slice into the bagel while holding it on the bottom and that violates every rule of knife safety I know. Even if we have dull knives, what happens if we get a sharp one and nobody realizes? A bloody hand, that's what.

When sequencing food through the ovens I'll have the next item ready in my hand when the current one is about to come out. Open the oven, drop the new food item in next to the cooked one, then shift over and grab the old one out and start the oven. Quicker than taking the old out, putting it down, picking up the new one and starting the oven. Fewer moves. Then when packaging it I'll drop the whole thing in the bag, paper and all, then grab the paper with the tongs while handing off the bag and rip it out to throw it away.

This is a general tip I learned years ago, but get as much done ahead of time as you can. If you're making a bagel, while it's cooking get the bag stickered and cream cheese & knife in there. Then you just have to drop it in when it's ready. Same with egg bites, have a tray ready with the bag and fork in there.

A bar towel rinsed in very hot tap water and then wrung very dry will clean and dry a bar better than a dry towel. It soaks up water and melts whatever sugar might be sitting on the counter at the same time leaving it perfectly clean.

For cold Matcha drinks I just put the base and the matcha powder in the shaker without ice. Shake it pour in the cup and top with ice. No more Matcha clumps and the shaker is easier to clean!

Restroom cleaner will clean literally anything.

We have these ugly white floors and they always look dirty and sometimes get stained. Just lather it in restroom cleaner and it’s as good as new.

Also pour hot (the one from the coffee brewer) water on fruit pieces that get stuck to the floor when cleaning floors.

Put a big coffee filter in the ground drawer after cleaning the espresso machines after break down. Easy clean up for later.

Build a frappuccino like normal and leave about 1/4 in room on the top. Pour affogato shots through the top of the dome lid #nosplashzone

I use the foam blender for most matcha drinks it’s just more efficient and doesn’t even foam if it’s coconut or any other non dairy drink. I usually put the ice in with it and press 3 or 4

for cleaning the walls like up high, you just slap it repeatedly with a sanitizer towel, works everytime😭😭

Dishes burning hot but you NEED them out of the sanitizer? Use that spray nozzle to cool em down with cold water. Works like a charm!

To open the pack of cake pops quickly flip it over and use the big serrated knife to cut the plastic wrap, just saw across it with a light touch

When you’re making unsweet teas or refreshers (but not the coconut milk drinks!) Pour the base to the bottom line and the water or lemonade to the top line. The proportions are the same as the shaker.

I do base, ice, water, give it a good swirl and hand off.