Preach! I worked at a brand new Tarbucks back in 2012-2013 and it was beautiful! Our trainer was sooo jealous. AND she said we have it harder in many ways since most shifts were solo. Tarbucks very rarely has more than 2 people working. I opened and closed alone for an entire year. Not to mention, we were also cross trained on Target cash so in an insane rush we could run over and help on the Target side as well. Tarbucks and stand alone store menus are identical.

I think there became this stigma when tiktoks for drinks were being posted from different Tarbucks baristas who didn’t appear to be busy because they had time to make all the tiktoks and baristas were getting pissed off at having to make the more complicated drinks so they just assume that all Tarbucks are like that where it’s not busy and therefore easier even if it isn’t true

I don’t think that stand alone stores think you’re incompetent. You’re just literally employed by someone completely different. Target owns the Starbucks inside their stores and don’t have to answer to SBUX corporate really, they just get our supplies and items. You guys operate in a much different way than stand alone (not worse or better, just different). But because things are so different, maybe it’s more that they know we have different training and processes? Doesn’t excuse their attitude, but might be a different perspective to look at?