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Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind

Full History - 2021 - 08 - 06 - ID#ozero6
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Handing cold warming sandwich out (self.starbucksbaristas)
submitted by Smurphflamingo
Are we allowed to hand out non-cooked warming sandwiches?
AlpineCurve 6 points 1y ago
No, it's a violation of the department of health code
Smurphflamingo [OP] 1 points 1y ago
Thank you for confirming
bliss1029 4 points 1y ago
We can for paninis but not breakfast sandwiches
silversungoddess 3 points 1y ago
No but at the same time if you explain that it needs to be warmed before consuming then “make the moment right”. We had a customer who would come in and get like 10 RFT and oatmeals
Without water every few weeks because her mother liked them but couldn’t leave the house
Missamum 3 points 1y ago
Packages for sale in the cold case can be sold cold. Breakfast sandwiches and wraps have to be heated. It’s a health code thing
[deleted] 2 points 1y ago
my store does it
healthypenguins 1 points 1y ago
Most of the time people ask for this so they can heat it later. I have customers who do this with egg bites as well. While egg can be weird, because everything is fully cooked they could eat it cold and be fine though.

The reason we don't typically sell them like this is because most products that are sold in packaging (not technically "ready to eat") should have nutritional info. Our warming food isnt labelled this way. Same reason we take pastries out of the plastic bag. It basically absolves us from liability.

We bypass this with pumpkin/banana bread and cake pops at my store by wrapping them individually in cellophane. It gives cashier's easy access to cake pops and unwarmed loaves, and acts as an impulse item for customers that way. (Obviously not necessarily, but pushes our numbers up a bit.)
FfierceLaw 0 points 1y ago
I took one with me as my mark out today. I have gotten them cold and in the package on my days off from other stores. No different than picking up refrigerated food at the grocery store.
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