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Customer counted the dragon fruit pieces in her drink (self.starbucksbaristas)
submitted by Butterflybo0ty
She told me to make sure she could see the pieces over drive thru and I was confused and said she’ll be able to... idk why she didn’t just ask for extra. She dead started counting them when she got her drink at the window and I was so annoyed. She started yelling that it wasn’t enough and I had to give her a cup with extra pieces in it. I swear the amount of tantrums I need to calm a day it’s like I’m working at a day care.
rstiltskinned 169 points 2y ago
Cool Lime gets one lime slice per drink as standard and customers have yelled at me over that
phoenixia217 157 points 2y ago
They should get rid of kiwi starfruit and bring back cool lime IMO. Plus kiwi starfruit stained all our tea containers so I’m tired of it
bigghostb00ty 41 points 2y ago
We have designated containers for it because of this. It’s so gross.
clumsycalico 17 points 2y ago
Oh good to know, we just started putting ours in tea pitchers the other day
ElijahLordoftheWoods 7 points 2y ago
So did we and I’m kind of appalled how fast it stains, like we literally were only using the old tea pitchers for like a week while we got more of the new style in and the old ones are already stained.
batbrain666 53 points 2y ago
where are you that there’s still cool lime??
mochakatpuccino 42 points 2y ago
this! I’ll travel anywhere for cool lime
puredeviance_ 23 points 2y ago
come to hungary, cool lime and strawberry acai are this years summer promo drinks!
mochakatpuccino 3 points 2y ago
omg !!! i want to find a way that would be sweet
IfuDidntCome2Party 19 points 2y ago
I have never tried a Cool Lime, but now I want one.
mochakatpuccino 17 points 2y ago
I had them back in the day before I was ever a partner. BOI if I worked at bux during the cool lime era I’d be marking that shit out every day it was so good I loved the little lime pieces too
rstiltskinned 1 points 2y ago
Austria! We only have Cool Lime and Strawberry acai rn lol
Butterflybo0ty [OP] 25 points 2y ago
It’s just too much like people need to calm tf down.
jklmnopedy 6 points 2y ago
I say this to myself at least a hundred times a shift. Idk why I still find it so surprising. I'm still learning how to not care after 3+ years.
Nicckles 13 points 2y ago
Cool Lime was my OG refresher when I started back in 2015
TanksALatte 4 points 2y ago
Which areas still have Cool Lime?
yukhentai 6 points 2y ago
nowhere in the u.s. but i spotted it in dubai!
TanksALatte 2 points 2y ago
Lucky ducks
briameowmeow 36 points 2y ago
Had a mobile order that was fairly intense but topped with 16 kiwi inclusions. I did 16. Customer doubted. Sigh.
sir_ramen 32 points 2y ago
>it’s like I’m working at a day care.
I think the life goals of people like that is to behave as much like a baby as possible. I bet if they could pay someone to feed them and wipe their butt they would.
I think the life goals of people like that is to behave as much like a baby as possible. I bet if they could pay someone to feed them and wipe their butt they would.
Israaaaman 10 points 2y ago
That place is toxic, man. It's slowly killing baristas with the amount of stress and anxiety...
lavendersigil 6 points 2y ago
I have a customer who orders a Trenta dragon fruit, no water no lemonade, unshaken with exactly four pieces of dragon fruit inside the cup. She’s horrible.
sunnyismybunny 3 points 2y ago
i think i said "just give her a recovery card" about 5-6 times today.
allamericanogirl 3 points 2y ago
We had this too but it was a woman counting the pieces of ice in her black coffee. She wanted exactly 8 if I remember correctly.
thechamelioncircuit 2 points 2y ago
This lady always comes in and makes us count exactly 10 ice cubes
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TanksALatte -62 points 2y ago
I know seems like stan but if you give them the extra whatever that should be a check in the above and beyond column. Just confirm the order and say their name back for the connection. We are the professionals with the power to make it right.
thechrismonster 36 points 2y ago
>We are the professionals with the power to make it right.
Oh god
Oh god
lavendersigil 14 points 2y ago
Counting the pieces seems excessive, and there’s no extra charge for the pieces. It’s just extremely frustrating to have someone count little purple pieces in a drive thru and yell at the person who is serving them to add more. Maybe if she asked if she could please have a little more without making a huge deal out of it, it would be fine. But it’s really really petty to count the pieces of dragon fruit.
TanksALatte -12 points 2y ago
“Yeah, that sucks man! They’re the worst!”
It’s petty and I don’t feel great about enabling bad behavior but it’s so easy to suggest, “extra dragon fruit pieces then?” And even if they want more, as childish as they may be, it’s still easier and less negative energy in my aura to just give them more pieces. They will be 10 feet away by the time I’ve forgotten how silly they are.
It’s petty and I don’t feel great about enabling bad behavior but it’s so easy to suggest, “extra dragon fruit pieces then?” And even if they want more, as childish as they may be, it’s still easier and less negative energy in my aura to just give them more pieces. They will be 10 feet away by the time I’ve forgotten how silly they are.
gay_robots 9 points 2y ago
Just so you know, all the other baristas you work with probably don’t like you very much
TanksALatte -3 points 2y ago
Hahaha. I’m not too worried about that
illfatedpupulon 4 points 2y ago
Sounding like a corpo.
Butterflybo0ty [OP] 3 points 2y ago
Big facts giving me my abusive managers vibe
sandycat555 1 points 2y ago
Some people -want- to be unhappy. Others, I may be the only safe person for this person to go off on today.
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