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Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind

Full History - 2021 - 08 - 04 - ID#oxlczc
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our syrups today (i.redd.it)
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snarky_fireball21 120 points 1y ago
Praying hardcore for you. May the Siren bless you with syrups soon!
Snarkybratt 2 points 1y ago
NICE username!👍😜
snarky_fireball21 1 points 1y ago
Lol thanks!
MawcDrums 115 points 1y ago
Some customers don't even grasp how bad of a supply issue we're having right now. It's extremely draining to have to explain to every order that we don't have 90% of everything. Also it shows that sbucks needs to diversify their supply chain and stop with the friggin just in time ordering bs. It's sucked since we implemented it, never have I been out of stock of so many random things, even before the pandemic.
Mayachees 31 points 1y ago
Automated ordering starts next week!
Im sure that will fix things!
/s
kitcat1210 26 points 1y ago
I dont think they realize how big of a mistake this is gonna be. I think it’s so stupid they want to do automated ordering
Torlarian 2 points 1y ago
Automated ordering only does food iirc
Mayachees 6 points 1y ago
It’s still bound to screw that up. And people complain when we are out of food.
Torlarian 2 points 1y ago
Oh i don't doubt that it will, in going to miss my time sitting in the back working on FMT while drinking coffee and waking up on Mondays but alas auto-order doesn't start for a month or so for us
Cjuytsootgg 3 points 1y ago
What’s “just in time”ordering?
relatablederp 5 points 1y ago
It’s why Covid fucked everything up. And not just for starbs

From my understanding. everything was ordered for a just in time deliver to limit the need for excess stocking and what came with stocking any item like freezing it, keeping it in oil etc.

When Covid hit everyone stocked up and because the supply chain was only used to manufacturing to a as needed amount, the increase in horsing caused massive suctions in industries with no means to fulfill them.

Then this caused demand to be totally misinterpreted, and taken advantage of, and create weird shortages.


https://www.reutersevents.com/supplychain/supply-chain/end-just-time
MawcDrums 2 points 1y ago
Essentially we only have exactly enough stock of our items so that we basically run out of them as we receive the next order. This obviously comes into issues if we have higher demand, the order is late, there's a shortage from the warehouse on an item, etc. More often than not lately (before this recent mega-shortage) we're running out of popular things a day or two before we get our order.
Dragonfruitme 60 points 1y ago
More iced chais!!!!! Yayayay
ratguy55 [OP] 39 points 1y ago
unfortunately i only had like 2 or 3 chais during my shift and they were all hot🥲
Avadickerson11 17 points 1y ago
It’s so werid because I work at a Barns and noble cafe and we get all of Starbucks supply. I wonder why our store gets it instead of a real Starbucks
lilisredditaccount 21 points 1y ago
Because Starbucks has a contract with Barnes and noble and basically you guys get the product first because it’s a signed contract deal that Starbucks will provide you with things
Avadickerson11 9 points 1y ago
Oh ! Yeah it’s insane we have tea, hazelnut, toffee nut were out of couple things but we have majority of the stuff ur out of it
cyan_reynolds 9 points 1y ago
That's a great question.
The_walking_man_ 14 points 1y ago
Good to see Starbucks following through with getting back to just the basics and real coffee
FfierceLaw 6 points 1y ago
I agree!
mckanoot 14 points 1y ago
Pain
darkwolf523 12 points 1y ago
F
FfierceLaw 11 points 1y ago
At least you can get to the riser/stand thing to clean it
dstnygn 20 points 1y ago
yall dont clean yours daily?
FfierceLaw 9 points 1y ago
I’m mid shift, neither open nor close so it always looks gross. If I had half a minute I’d haul off and take it back and spray it off but I never do. Lately I always walk into a gross store
babbyalien 21 points 1y ago
They probably don't have half a minute either
babbyalien 11 points 1y ago
how are you gonna complain about something you do too
CriticalSheep 8 points 1y ago
I mean unless you're so overwhelmed during that time that it was allocated elsewhere, mid-bar is an 11-2 card task.
FfierceLaw 1 points 1y ago
we're so overwhelmed. Doing the work of 2 stores because of a closing nearby
dstnygn 6 points 1y ago
we clean ours during midday, everyday. but we are near a downtown area and we have an early peak for people going to work and then we’re relatively slow for midday.
tired-barista 9 points 1y ago
i'm just in absolute aw at the big wm pump???? at my store, the only big sauce pump is the regular mocha👀👀
_paninipress 5 points 1y ago
If you look closely it’s actually a mocha pump but they just switched the pump top to a WM top. So your store can just order another mocha pump and make the switch.
sharkoss 2 points 1y ago
Yup, my store did just that. They fit about 1.5 mocha bottles and was a huge lifesaver for the high volume store!
tired-barista 1 points 1y ago
but isn't the mocha pump equivalent to 2 wm pumps? correct me if i'm wrong, but i thought that the white mocha dose is the same as the cbs mocha dose...
_paninipress 1 points 1y ago
They probably use less pumps.
tired-barista 1 points 1y ago
ah big brain, idk why i didn't consider that🤦‍♀️
wendywendy5 5 points 1y ago
omg and people still have the audacity to be extremely rude to us
ratguy55 [OP] 7 points 1y ago
customers were surprisingly understandable about the situation:-)
renjaminbutton 4 points 1y ago
No vanilla or classic even???
ratguy55 [OP] 12 points 1y ago
no🥲🥲 we had no whip cream or sweet cream foam. no 2% or whole milk either
Competitive-Meet 3 points 1y ago
Looks stocked up to me 😭
jroseq2 3 points 1y ago
ours isn’t much better but at least we got the fall syrups today that we can’t sell haha yay for partners tho
elainafromthemoon 3 points 1y ago
We had exactly 2 bottles of caramel combined when I left today : ) and we probably won’t be getting anymore : )
doobiewave 3 points 1y ago
Oh my fucking dog
Kmsss 1 points 1y ago
Oh dang.
sadvibez_x 1 points 1y ago
yo what
xbbey 1 points 1y ago
you have a big white mocha????
ratguy55 [OP] 2 points 1y ago
white mochas too popular ig haha
_paninipress 1 points 1y ago
If you look closely it’s actually a mocha pump but they just switched the pump top to a WM top. So your store can just order another mocha pump and make the switch.
ObnoxiousR 1 points 1y ago
We are getting there at my stores too.
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KuLeBreeZ 1 points 1y ago
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