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Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind

Full History - 2021 - 06 - 17 - ID#o28pyf
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what’s some funny interactions you’ve had with a customer that doesnt even realize it? (self.starbucksbaristas)
submitted by nicemoderngentleman
for ex, one customer always orders a “shorty” cup of coffee. it make sure me laugh every time he says shorty.

another woman always asks for extra squirts of syrup instead of pumps
jdogg51 63 points 2y ago
lady ordered a matcha lemonade with no lemonade through mobile, we were all super confused if she wanted a latte or made with water or just the powder so we waited until she got there. she insisted we were being slow because a matcha green tea was made with matcha and green tea…as in iced green tea. refused to believe that wasn’t a thing so we made it how she asked and the disgust on her face when she tried it but couldn’t say anything because she just made a scene about it was priceless
OneRoseDark 24 points 2y ago
For the record, a matcha lemonade is half lemonade, half water. So without the lemonade it would just be water.
sweet-seat 15 points 2y ago
i....is it really
OneRoseDark 6 points 2y ago
Yep! You can look up the recipe card on your iPad's Store Resources app. My whole store was making it wrong.
sweet-seat 9 points 2y ago
so is my entire store this is so awkward LOL thank you!
Mother-Attempt895 5 points 2y ago
it is half lemonade half water but tbh it tastes so much better with all lemonade starbucks just LOVES watering down there drinks that are already watered down but thats just my person opinion
VrginMobile 2 points 2y ago
Is lemonade also half lemonade half water?
Mother-Attempt895 1 points 2y ago
it is
VrginMobile 1 points 2y ago
*Chuckles nervously*
coffeegirrrl 1 points 2y ago
Oh my! We've been making it wrong here to. It'll be getting added to my daily trivia questions on My Daily now. Should I share that I learned it on Redit? Or just pretend I know everything 😆
Eboy77888797788 5 points 2y ago
Tell us more, I would like to hear this story
80sserialkiller 30 points 2y ago
a woman who ordered a “spanish feeta” almost made me and the shift cry from laughter and now we just call them that
sereneabsurdity 9 points 2y ago
Someone called it a spinach fajita wrap the other day at my store and I about lost it
notwoke 5 points 2y ago
I had a customer call it “spinach fettuccine”
nicemoderngentleman [OP] 4 points 2y ago
this is the best one
LegendOfJakelope 24 points 2y ago
We still joke about the woman who orders a "Strawberry Asiago Refresher" in the drive thru. 😂
abradds 6 points 2y ago
I raise your strawberry Asiago with my own strawberry acacia
sereneabsurdity 3 points 2y ago
Strawberry acie refreshener
Broccoli_In_The_Butt 7 points 2y ago
Strawberry acne
LegendOfJakelope 1 points 2y ago
Adding on:

"Does the tomato mozzarella have tomato in it?"

"Are the bacon gruyere bites vegetarian?"

"Does the turkey bacon have bacon on it?"

And my favorite interaction, at 6am-


Customer: I want a bacon crossointwich.

Me: The fuck, this isn't Burger King

DTO: Um, I'm sorry sir, we only serve butter, ham and swiss, chocolate, and almond crossoints. Would you like one of those?

Customer: Chocolate crossoint.... what kind of meat can I get on that?
logiwave 23 points 2y ago
People who say "Trenti" never fail to make me laugh. I mess with them and say it back, which makes them say it more and all my partners laugh too
ephemereaux 10 points 2y ago
My favorite is “vein-tay”
Broccoli_In_The_Butt 4 points 2y ago
Or ven-tah
KitKatKatieKat96 3 points 2y ago
My favorite is “grand-ee”, though trenti cracks me up too 😂
Karmaknight66 18 points 2y ago
One woman made me remake her drink because “she was allergic to ice,” what made it even funnier was that we were in the middle of a rush
KitKatKatieKat96 4 points 2y ago
One lady came back in for a remake on her O/S cream last week, because she got half and half and needed heavy cream because “I’m allergic to milk” 🤔
cuhlairemarie 2 points 2y ago
I had someone ask for “extra extra ice” because she was “allergic to ice”..... I confirmed with her that she wanted extra even though she’s allergic and she said yes don’t ask. 🙃
throwaway3456678 17 points 2y ago
A man once called the Strawberry Açaí the “Strawberry A-cocky” and that’s what it goes by now in our store
Coffee-Bae 16 points 2y ago
We have an old man that says he wants a "Vee-Entay Caramel Matcha-Cheeto, and that there impossibility Burger"
It cracks me up so much
Coffee-Bae 5 points 2y ago
He also said once that he wanted to try the "Pie-nipple drink"
DieLawnUwU 15 points 2y ago
Someone in the drive thru ordered a caramel marinara and we couldn’t stop laughing
ladyghost515 7 points 2y ago
We had a pretty slow morning today and I was on warming. I was able to get food out to the cafe pretty much as soon as they ordered it. Some lady was so excited that she got her pastry right away and exclaimed “this is the fastest I’ve ever gotten my food here!!” And I looked right at her…and gave her some finger guns….
kqs13 7 points 2y ago
an older man comes through our dt every morning and orders a "venti strawberry cooler with 2 stevia" in the most mumbly voice you've ever heard. The first time you hear it, you pretty much have no idea what he is saying. He's very sweet, though, and we all like him very much! If there's ever a borrowed partner or new person, one of us just puts his order in as soon as we hear his voice, since he is so hard to understand.
WorthPrinciple7049 6 points 2y ago
One person ordered a “pineapple moochata” every day. Every day we would repeat back, “one pineapple matcha.” I still wonder if she was trolling us...
Tryocon 5 points 2y ago
"Megan dragonfruit lemonade"
croissantluver 4 points 2y ago
someone comes in and just gets the tomato mozzarella but calls it a Maserati
Gabe13456 3 points 2y ago
We had a man try to order bacon gruyere egg bites. His sequence:
“Can I get um… the bacon… the egg… those little round… the cheesy bacon egg balls?”
hallowolfyx 3 points 2y ago
strawberry a-kai
GreedyEchidna2465 3 points 2y ago
“Matchacha”
amazing_redhead 3 points 2y ago
Spinach fetus wrap...
ttime46 3 points 2y ago
i’ve had some ask for a “Strawberry Acation Refresher” and also someone ask for a “Caramel Macallato” so naturally my whole store calls those drinks by that name now
Sparkflyr 2 points 2y ago
We have a regular that always says a caramel fettuccini and sometimes if shes really on a roll even says Alfredo by accident. My fav part is one time she came it upset that a starbucks down the street couldn't get her order right no matter how many times she said it. I didn't have the guts to tell this nice old lady its because shes ordering a caramel pasta dish.
therobingoblin2 2 points 2y ago
Definitely had a customer look me dead in the face and ask if our egg bites had egg in them.

I absolutely lost my mind for about an hour.
reinadelastrigoi 2 points 2y ago
I had a girl come through once and insisted she wanted a moh-cha. My shift and I cracked up about it for a few minutes.
daveyface7 2 points 2y ago
A tall bold coffee
WhoreDiaries 1 points 2y ago
“Uhm can I have a strawberry ah-see-eye”
chiile-anyways_uhm 1 points 2y ago
I cringe whenever a customer asks for squirts
YoungAEngineer 1 points 2y ago
my favorites are a customer who always orders “the strawberry acid” and another who came in asking for a “caramel Macarena”
rosesandthorns17 1 points 2y ago
we call the older gentleman that orders 3 trenta iced green teas every few days “grandpa green tea”. love that man
Mhill0823 1 points 2y ago
I love when people order “Trenti” drinks to rhyme it with venti.
sammiipiie 1 points 2y ago
We used to have a lady who ordered petite vanilla sconces every day and we’d always say it like that over the headsets to each other for the next like hour and it never failed to make us all giggle uncontrollably 😂
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