Him: "I've got a two drinks. This first one is for my girlfriend. It's pretty complicated and I'm not sure I'm saying it right, but it says venti vanilla latte with almond milk. Is that something you understand?"

Me: "Yeah, that's no problem! What's the second drink?"

Him: "Just a coffee. Nice and simple."

Sir, her drink is the easiest thing we've made today and I don't know what 'just a coffee' means.

Omg my story happened yesterday.

So I get pineapple ginger in my PTL, right? So I'm going on my break and my co-barista asks if there's enough PG in my drink. And this guy also waiting for his drink is shocked we have PG, and he he tells us PG is also in a Moscow Mule.

Do you guys know what a Moscow Mule is?

We both say yes.

And then he proceeded to explain what it fucking is.

Mansplaining at its finest.

Former barista/now customer here. At my current job, on several occasions I have had the unfortunate experience of being a passenger in my supervisor's vehicle while we go through the DT. He gets a venti caramel frappuccino, except that EVERY time, he orders it as "one of those frozen coffee bullshits." He's perfectly fine with drinking one, but apparently too cool/manly to say the word. Then they ask what size and he says "large or whatever y'all call it." I try to tell him, "Dude, you can just say large. It's fine." But he does the exact same schtick every time. So much cringe. Now every time he offers to get coffee, I feel so conflicted between the desire for coffee and putting up with his dumb routine.

My favorite is when they are in dt and refuse to help their s/o in the passenger seat order. Too masculine to order a pink drink

I once had a college guy come in for 3 days in a row. The first two days were easy. He knew what he wanted and how to tell me. It was just a grande caramel frapp. Nothing out of the ordinary.

Cut to the 3rd day, he's with his guy friends and all of a sudden he doesn't know his drink anymore and just says, "idk what i want, uhhh. It's a caramel thing, I think blended?" Like friend, its okay to order from starbucks. No one cares

Some hostile man being so mean to my SSV on DTO only because she asked to confirm that his black coffee was unsweetened, it was so unnecessary and over the top, I don't recall his actually words because I was traumatized just listening in but the gist of it was he thinks that black coffee means unsweetened and no milk products and is totally unaware that some people think black means no milk but could be sweetened

"This Pink Drink is for my girlfriend. Not for me."

Who you trying to convince my guy?

This lady came through the dt a couple weeks ago, the type who says “HI” before I’ve even greeted yet, and takes a moment to gather orders from her car. Some kids are in there I presume, and she goes,

“Could I get a grande mocha steamer?”

“Yeah, so a hot chocolate?”

“No, a mocha STEAMER. Do you know what a steamer is sweetie? I need to explain a it, huh?” I had to collect myself as my pride took a shot lol.

“Nope I do, that’s actually what our hot chocolate is.”

“Um, okay..”

“Did you want that at a cooler temperature for a kid?”

“No thanks. Could I actually get it hot but just not as hot as it usually is? It’s for my kid.”

“Yep! 🤠”


smh.

I wasn't there for this, but some jacked dude came in earlier in the pandemic and got really angry my co workers asked where his mask was and trying to give him one.

He ended up yelling and cussing one of my male shifts out and doing some macho stance to make himself look bigger (the particular shift is pretty tall), saying he was gonna kick all their asses. When our store manager finally came out because of the yelling, the guy was walking out and hit his leg right on the corner of our long table. (It is positioned right in the middle of between the registers and the entrance) He continued to leave with a little limping after.

There’s a guy who comes to our store all the time and gets a “venti iced coffee with vanilla and cream” words he pretends not to know but expects us to remember every time. I don’t play that game though, and I pretend not to know what he drinks right back at him until he tells me what he wants

Something about me not being 40 makes men call me buddy. Really irritates me. My name is not buddy. Just because I choose to not work in jobs that are highly strenuous anymore does not make me less of a man than you driving to your IT job in your lifted dodge ram dressed as a lumbersexual.

Customers name is Shane. Massive man. 6’5+ EASILY. Muscles for me and the rest of the store combined and bald. Never wears anything more than a tank top and some basketball shorts.

He isn’t shy about his order at all but he comes in bass turned all the way up on his voice and orders a trenta very berry nearly every day. I love seeing this every time as even other customers who over hear him stifle their laughter.

Or the guys that refuse to order from the drivers seat and make their girlfriend yell from the passenger

Manly Man: *walks in in certain funny "manly" way of moving his body, displaying his manliness*

Me: "Hi what can I get you?"

Manly Man: *wears muscle shirt, all muscles flexing and showing and looks like he's covered in some sort of greasy oil*

Manly Man: *leans very very closely over to the plexiglas to tell me his order, clears his throat, whispers*

Manly Man: Grande Vanilla Latte with Oatmilk and 4 Stevia

I love when they can’t muster the strength to order a pink drink for their lady, or, god forbid, themselves. I guess owning a penis means you’re not allowed to like tasty things.

Super short, but once a dude made fun of his friend for ordering the caramel frappuccino bc it's "girly." What. These are the same people who will drink horse piss beer instead of getting a mixed drink that they actually enjoy for fear of looking weak.

I had a customer who got extremely upset that the guest in front of him paid for his tall white mocha. Like yelled at me ‘I JUST WANT TO PAY FOR MY OWN DAMN DRINK!!’ And made me ring it up again. I will never forget it. His name is Mark and he still comes in 🤣

When the Unicorn Frappucino launched (the forbidden drink I know haha) there was soooo much toxic masculinity then. My favorite was the tough guys ordering it like it wasn't for them but they were too obvious with the modifications that we knew. Oh also, the guts who want the small straws instead of the longer straws. Like my guy, it's a straw 😅😅😅

I often encounter older men who order "strong" or "bold coffee". Last week, I misheard one saying "cold coffee" and we went back and forth for like two whole minutes. Eventually he was like "BOLD COFFEE! YOU KNOW, WHAT COFFEE DRINKERS DRINK!" and I caught on. Like, what does "bold" even mean? Dark roast? Robusta? French press?

Not mentioned so far but the macho men that think drinking 5 shots of espresso straight up makes them super alpha.

Like nah brah, you’re just going have the squirts like a bitch.

"We're men, manly men! We're men in tights. TIGHT tights!"

Im sorry but that was the first thing that came to mind when I read the title

Had a hillbilly make his lady friend come in the store to order her drink. He refused to get a pink drink for her

My least favorite is the guy in a loud ass pick up truck who makes his wife or girlfriend order from the passenger seat so it’s like impossible to hear them 🙃

This is a little off topic but your post reminded me. Back in December/January we had a lot of contractors and construction workers coming through our store every day, all of them ordering a venti white mocha. Sometimes with modifications. It made me happy to see all the “manly men” who were unashamed to get their favorite sweet drink :)

When they order themselves cake pops, but like, really self consciously lmao

This old man came to the register one day and ordered a venti pike. I asked if he wanted cream and sugar and he angrily replied "hell no, that's for them *women*. I'm not weak! I don't want that girly stuff!" And slammed his fist on the counter. It was very hard to keep a straight face.

I have a customer who is basically the opposite of that. Comes in first thing, nearly every morning, in his big pick-up, and orders a trenta pink drink with vscf. Makes me smile every time.

I like when the whisper guy tells his drink to his girlfriend but then he butts in to tell me the name for the order.

A guy who ordered, verbatim, "Just a black coffee! nothing fancy, no Frappuccino, crappucino, Al Pacino fancy stuff."

I had a guy roll up Ina big ol diesel truck and tried to have his wife order a complicated drink over speaker phone. He'd just go "I wanna..." *Diesel rumbling* "... Did you get all that?? And I thought he was just being clever. It took us like 7 tries because he wouldn't repeat any words that came through the phone or pull up without a total

This brings me back to the start of the pandemic, right after we opened back up and people weren’t used to the condiment bar being gone. I’d have these men order coffee and when I asked if they’d like milk, sugar, or room, they’d roll their eyes at me and tell me they drink it black. Lo and behold, three seconds after they get their coffee and realize they can’t pour half of it out into the trash to fill it with cream and sugar, they’d quietly return it to us to fill with cream and 10 sugars. I loved looking at them while they shamefully avoided eye contact.

this massive dude in a lifted truck gets a trenta pink drink every morning and asks for it with pride. Thank you trenta pink drink dude

I looooove the men who make the women in the car yell the whole order from the passenger side because they don’t want me to know they’re getting a pink drink. Love it. So fun. Extra fun when they sit there with their arms crossed and finally order for themselves after the third “I’m so sorry, I can’t quite hear you, what was that?”

Ive had a few mother's ask for a "boy cake pop" when ordering...

This guy came through the drive thru and said paying with the starbucks app was too girly? SIR?? You're literally saving money when you pay with it

my favorite are the dudes that come in with their gf/wife and order “just a plain coffee..uhh medium or whatever you call it” and then come in by themselves later and get a frappuccino

it’s so homoerotic while also being homophobic lmao. like they jump through so many hoops to prove they’re manly (to other men, obviously.)

toxic masculinity is when no one can know you like sugar.

This guys' son was ordering and the son ordered a pink drink. The dad said "is there another name or something else we can call that drink?" And I told him "nope. Thats the name so there isnt any other way of ordering it."

I once had a man come in, completely shredded, bald and bearded, wearing a biker vest, walk up and unashamedly order a Trenta Pink Drink like he didn’t give any fucks. That’s my man right there 🤘

Customer: “can I get a strawberry açaí with coconut milk?”

Barista: “so you want a pink drink?”

Customer clearly feeling awkward having to answer this question: “um yeah that one…”

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My boyfriend!!!😭🤣 he now refuses to go into a Starbucks but he used to go in there to order stuff for me until he felt like he lost his man card saying my order out loud 😂😂

My bf is a “manly man” but he proudly orders a pink drink or a dragon drink lol

I remember a manly man asking for an iced hot chocolate, we were like you mean a chocolate milk? Nope, it was definitely an iced hot chocolate.

Ii

We had a girl come in and order her drink which was like a VSCCB or something of the like and then she got a pink drink but in a hot cup… when she got to the window she was like “I’m sorry the pink drink is for my boyfriend and he doesn’t want people to see the color of it”