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Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind

Full History - 2021 - 07 - 14 - ID#okh1ny
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Milk sink before & after. Yes, really (reddit.com)
submitted by Smurphflamingo
Meggilli91 113 points 2y ago
Does it not get cleaned every night at close? We’d get murdered if it didn’t look like the second picture by open…
medusas-garden 44 points 2y ago
At my store the openers/miss clean sinks and drains more often than closers do. Don’t think it’s supposed to be that way but it happens.
humanitiesmanatees 55 points 2y ago
Closers are supposed to clean sinks because of the fruit flies/other nasty stuff than can be drawn to gross sinks over night. It’s disgusting to wait til morning and you should definitely bring it up to your SM!
Meggilli91 20 points 2y ago
Yup this! It’s an open invitation for critters and creepy crawlers. Not to mention mold and all that good stuff…
Meggilli91 18 points 2y ago
I can’t even comprehend that! Every single partner that closed the previous night would seriously be written up the second that sink was seen in the morning. Our store is really chill if things are kept clean haha
_circuts 9 points 2y ago
I wanna work at your store. I like clean. Cleaning is satisfying.
Meggilli91 5 points 2y ago
If you can get to Canada we’re in fact hiring.
Hyrokoyo923 13 points 2y ago
We clean ours at night and fill it with the ice from the ice bins to prevent fruit flies
juju483 1 points 2y ago
Does putting ice in it help with the flies? How so? Just curious.......we have a fly problem at my store
ElijahLordoftheWoods 2 points 2y ago
As I recall it freezes the eggs they lay in the drains. I was just told this by a shift at my first store tho, I haven’t read up on it. Our fly problem got better when we started doing it but it didn’t totally eliminate them.
Hyrokoyo923 1 points 2y ago
Idk. It's just what we do at night lol
_circuts 4 points 2y ago
I think different stores have different priorities cause at my store at least, the sinks don't always get cleaned because there are other things that get prioritized unfortunately and it's hard to get evvvvvverything done because there's so much, especially since morning crew doesn't/can't help with the cleaning throughout the day. It sucks.
cpv_91 6 points 2y ago
There are things that the night crew misses, during my open I clean so much and the rest of the day no matter how busy we are we clean clean clean. And when I say we're busy I'm talking about 70-75 customer half hours, in a café with high mobile, curbside, and delivery. The other morning I have to clean the most disgusting area around the ice bin including mold and I wish I would have taken a picture so I could share but I didn't bother because our SM just doesn't care she just wants it done. I gave up pointing it out when she called me a bully for caring.
FfierceLaw 3 points 2y ago
Your SM called you a bully for caring about cleanliness? I'm so sorry that is dreadful
_circuts 2 points 2y ago
Alright I'm missing the connection between bullying and caring.... How are you a bully for caring about something???
cpv_91 1 points 2y ago
Exactly.. I think it's just her way of getting me to stop bringing things up. I'm a bully, I'm too demanding, I expect too much from people.

Simple.. I DON'T CODDLE PAID ADULTS.
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canithoe 50 points 2y ago
I want to know what was growing under the sprayer thing man
LavanderSkies0930 3 points 2y ago
I was thinking the same thing
happinstock 48 points 2y ago
Jesus. I'd like to see your floor drains
silversungoddess 15 points 2y ago
I wouldn’t 🤮
Smurphflamingo [OP] 5 points 2y ago
Those actually get more attention then the sink 😂
sailorgrumpycat 43 points 2y ago
What ive learned from working at different stores a couple times and a bunch of posts on here, is that quite a few stores ignore an entire section of their book labeled CLEAN PLAY.

Why do so many stores not deep clean ever?
Smurphflamingo [OP] 20 points 2y ago
For us, A staff of 5 + $1900 days. I been the new lead for two months at this location. You should’ve seen the gross slime I plunged out of the ice machine a few weeks back cause no one knows the last time that was cleaned🤭.
sailorgrumpycat 6 points 2y ago
I cant imagine that store still had an A on the door. By staff of 5 do you mean you only have 5 people for open + mid + close, only 5 people work there?
Smurphflamingo [OP] 5 points 2y ago
A total staff of 5 - Me and 4 other girls. There is one to two girl that is on their day off so only three working or so. Did I mention I work 60 hour weeks?! We a krobucks so maybe that helps better to understand. Our labor is around 110% 😂
Razza_ma_tazza 6 points 2y ago
Pulled the same at a Safeway location. We had a hard time cleaning daily. :/ sometimes people forgot the kiosk locations don’t get benefits of Starbucks work
nikkicarter1111 4 points 2y ago
My SM hasn’t scheduled clean play in 4 months, even though I’ve repeatedly begged him to/offered to stay late with a barista to clean. We are regularly getting out late EVERY day because of how understaffed we are. don’t get me wrong—I’m not leaving dirty sinks. My store has never, and WILL never, look like the first picture as long as I’m a closing shift, but the clean play tasks? I try to get one or two done every week. Because I cannot keep up. The drains are done daily, and the daily cleaning tasks are also done. But things like the ice machine? The ice machine that you have to completely empty and turn off to clean? Ive managed to clean it once in 4 months.

The short answer is that we’re all so understaffed and overworked that there simply isn’t time. And if there is time, the whole staff is burnt out.
stqmine 36 points 2y ago
y’all pass your health safety visits or? 😭 also why that look like corn
[deleted] 11 points 2y ago
It looks kinda like kiwi
Smurphflamingo [OP] 7 points 2y ago
Yep, kiwi
WillaFox 2 points 2y ago
I was going to ask why is there corn in the sink 🤢
Webshooter38 19 points 2y ago
I hate how the drain doesn't ever shine. It always looks slightly rusted
givemeapples 9 points 2y ago
i'm sorry but W H A T. how could anyone even let it get to half that point in the first pic without feeling sick just by looking at it? my store is guilty of not cleaning sinks every night (AS WE SHOULD BE) but the second I see grime and milk cheese starting to build up on the sides of the sink it really grosses me out that I have to stop what I'm doing and just clean the damn sink. Good for you on being the first person to take initiative to show the sink some love though :(
Busy_Yogurtcloset_58 9 points 2y ago
You tryna transfer to our location?
cringeqween13 7 points 2y ago
What did you use?
Smurphflamingo [OP] 19 points 2y ago
Sponge with a pitcher of soapy water to get the first few layers off, then a mr clean sponge (the lavender bathroom one). Rinsed a bunch of time. And then my secret weapon.. Cafiza and hot water 😂. I use it on everything for a deep scrub, stained sinks? stained iced coffee pitchers? Pop a tablet with hot water, give it a scrub and you be amazed the coffee grease that comes off. The only thing I have not been able to clean is the kiwi refresher pitcher that is stained green
nikkicarter1111 4 points 2y ago
Hell yeah cafieza and hot water! Also urnex and hot water works great for nasty milk build up on metal like sinks & metal pitchers. Just, obviously, clean and sanitize thoroughly after.
silversungoddess 3 points 2y ago
We did urnex on our pitcher rinser sinks and after a few times apparently it cleared out the pipes too and all the crud flowed into our drains 🤮🤮
cringeqween13 2 points 2y ago
We have a shift from another store and last night she showed me the magic of toilet cleaner on the 3L pitchers and my jaw DROPPED. My little heart was so happy.
coffeenb1 6 points 2y ago
WOW 😮
aeboombooms 5 points 2y ago
this is so satisfying. i was a DT bar person who would be in at 5 and the GIFT OF A CLEAN SINK is something special :)
kikuuq 5 points 2y ago
Yeah looks about right :/
ObnoxiousR 3 points 2y ago
Looks like chernobyl reactor N°4
bunnysbigcookie 3 points 2y ago
damn that after shot is cleaner than our sinks will ever be. love working at a mall kiosk where we only have the bare minimum staffing and nights are forever slammed :,)
StarbzBoi 3 points 2y ago
CHEESE!!!
chubnifficent 2 points 2y ago
Bruh at my store the cold bar sink gets clogged with fruit at the beginning of the day and no one ever unplugs it. It stays full of milk, juice, just everything gross all day. But it never looks like that first pic. you worked some kinda miracle on that thing.
Smurphflamingo [OP] 1 points 2y ago
That’s exactly how this all started.. gets clogged, built up of milk and frap waste.. not rinsing it, leaving it and continuing for days on end. Zero fucks.
moonshroom02 2 points 2y ago
I have questions
AldiWillYouMarryMe 2 points 2y ago
You need new supervisors! TF
idk_ijustgohard 2 points 2y ago
I want to coat that in purple degreaser so bad! “Just hush, and gimme a green scrubbie and the purple stuff and come back to compliment how shiny the sink is later.” -me, definitely.
PSessions 2 points 2y ago
Ewww 🤢
[deleted] 2 points 2y ago
Me too tho
Ashamed_Equal 1 points 2y ago
Bleach and gift cards? Looks like a job for bleach and Starbucks gift cards 😅
xbbey 1 points 2y ago
how did it get that bad
ah09022 1 points 2y ago
I thought that was corn in there
Sahalio 1 points 2y ago
Good job cleaning it minimum age worker
silversungoddess 1 points 2y ago
I’m still trying to figure out how it got that bad
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_circuts 1 points 2y ago
QUEEN! ROYALTY! REGALITY! I LOVE THIS SINK!
Kaylushhh 1 points 2y ago
Get your weekly store order person to order you the eraser sponges (not sure if every store can order them) and it makes stuff like this a breeze to clean. The sponges paired with so hot sanitizer water will have things looking as close to brand new as you can get.
ChemicalBarnacle 1 points 2y ago
Those kiwis in the drain...no
i_jlp_you 1 points 2y ago
Dang that before sink was CRUSTY, amazing work!!
bitchmcconnelll 1 points 2y ago
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