it’s a placebo effect, if it doesn’t look like it would then people automatically assume it taste different even though it’s the same

Regardless of the lid/straw thing with California, Starbucks specifically told us baristas the reason for the 4X refreshers is for reducing the carbon footprint. Verbatum from all my managers and even store manager.

Believe what you want, shit's changing 🤷

The refreshers are already 2x concentrated, which is why we had the water. Now they’re gonna be 4x. So we’re gonna put them in pitchers with extraaaa amounts of water. So far, they only started to do this with the açaí, but it’ll roll over into every other refresher. They’re doing this to save waste on the packaging. Which makes some sense I guess. But when you think about it, all those added dirty pitchers at the end of day requires cleaning which requires extra water. Not to mention the overall process of making the 4x is time consuming therefore eating away at our already small amounts of labor.

I think they’re going from 2x to 4x, more concentrated and less amount for the base.

But only SAR is right now, the others will change at a later date