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Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind

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Full History - 2021 - 08 - 09 - ID#p19mkb

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[deleted] [OP] 282 points 1y ago

To be fair an arnold Palmer is just lemonade and iced tea but that’s a dumb way to order it at starbucks

designated-grapes 245 points 1y ago

I JUST SCREAM AT "WHO IS THAT?" HAHAHA

miniinovaa 111 points 1y ago

“Oh we don’t have a barista named Arnold. What can I get you to drink?”

franglaisedbeignet 85 points 1y ago

I went to Bad Daddy’s and asked if I could get an iced tea with lemonade and the much older waitress replied “oh you mean an Arnold Palmer?” I had never heard of it and I live in the south.

elote69-420 15 points 1y ago

How old are you? I’m 20 and a lot of my people my age (at least where I’m from on the east coast) say Arnold Palmer when wanting tea and lemonade

[deleted] [OP] 1 points 1y ago

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iSpeakMeme 9 points 1y ago

I'd never heard of it either until one day while working at a sports bar (taking a small break from sbux) and this guy and his whole family of like 7 people come in and all order Arnold Palmers. I was so confused and just said okay and went to ask our bartender or cook or someone idr now

George734 51 points 1y ago

I just had a person order this last week. I'm old and it still took me a minute to realize wtf she was asking for.

dahmerpalms 4 points 1y ago

That drink has been out since the 60s hahah

rudebii 50 points 1y ago

At least now you know it’s half iced tea/half lemonade. I can’t remember anyone having ever ordered it any other way TBH.

Sometimes customers would order “cafe at lait” which is just French for what Starbucks calls a “misto” but (was/is?) common enough people would come in expecting us to know what it is because it’s a standard cafe beverage that anyone brewing coffee and steaming milk can make.

We didn’t have access to google in our pockets for most of the time I was a barista, but stuff like this is easy to look up now.

Gemma_V 34 points 1y ago

Please god I had someone come in and order the cafe OLE and i was like “please god what”
They even spelled it out as “ole” and I went in the back and cried after they left and I googled it.

rudebii 30 points 1y ago

Ahh, yes the “cafe olé,” it is rumored that is the beverage of the bullfighter. He drinks it to get the energy to defeat the majestic beast in the ring.

[deleted] [OP] 6 points 1y ago

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mrcupcake18 4 points 1y ago

What?! Ahahaha! Dead dead dead 😂

NorthoftheCanal 3 points 1y ago

That is hilarious!

ladyelenawf 2 points 1y ago

TBF, that's exactly how I hear Christina Augulaira (sp?) sing it in *Lady Marmalade*. 🤷‍♀️

oftheHowl 0 points 1y ago

Just that interaction made you cry? Doesn't sound like you should work in customer service then

Gemma_V 1 points 1y ago

Im happy that you spend your time digging in long dead reddit threads just to think you could insult me; who has more than 8 years of experience in customer service and has stood firm while drunk men have screamed insults in her face. Try harder, bitch.

oftheHowl 0 points 1y ago

Didn't dig, the sub was recommended and it was literally the first post to show up. Also congrats I guess? I also have 8 years experience and don't feel like that's any sort of accomplishment, but I wasn't insulting you in the first place lol. I asked a serious question and made a totally valid statement if your answer had been yes. You clearly take things terribly since you jumped straight to calling a stranger a bitch. Saying you should consider a different line of work if your feelings get hurt so easily seems pretty logical

Panshu_X_Pop-Tarts 34 points 1y ago

Actually, café au lait means latte in french!(I'm a native french speaker, so I can confirm that to you ^-^)

rudebii 23 points 1y ago

OK, then let me clarify - In American (perhaps elsewhere as well) cafes a "cafe au lait" is brewed coffee with steamed milk.

Things get goofy with cafe naming conventions in the US. for example, a "latte" in the US is espresso + steamed milk. But in other countries, ordering a "latte" result in being served just steamed milk.

sparkytheboomman 8 points 1y ago

I was under the impression a café au lait was espresso with steamed milk but no foam.

rudebii 5 points 1y ago

I’ve never heard that, but it’s not unheard of to have different recipes for the same-named drink.

“Cafe au lait” literally means “coffee with milk,” so that could all sorts of things. Same with “caffe latte,” though that’s generally understood to be espresso, milk and usually topped with foam.

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drinkliquidclocks 9 points 1y ago

I work at a licensed American store and we call mistos "cafe au laits" there, it's even in our POS and we have a recipe card.

kIose -1 points 1y ago

Pretty sure it's not French for a misto, a misto is American, French people don't drink brewed coffee. A cafe au lait is more like a latte, definitely made with espresso. The misto, or "cafe ole" is the American bastardized version of it.

[deleted] [OP] 39 points 1y ago

“This isn’t a tgi fridays” 😭😭 I’m high off my ass and this is sending me

justkeepswimmingswim 38 points 1y ago

John Daley is the same but with vodka. In case anyone needs that information 🤷🏻‍♀️

TJW351 35 points 1y ago

To be fair it’s how a black tea with lemonade can be ordered literally anywhere else so I don’t give them a hard time about it lol

TJW351 13 points 1y ago

I’m not disagreeing with you lol I’m just saying there are lots of people who know half tea half lemonades as Arnold Palmers. Just like some people call shopping carts buggies and others call them shopping carts. Same thing, people just know them under different names.

ladyelenawf 5 points 1y ago

My British friend was visiting and called them trolleys. I asked if she meant a street car? I was so confused because I thought she'd switched subjects on me.

sheep_heavenly -6 points 1y ago

I've literally seen it in exactly one place in my entire life, and that was on a menu for a very dated breakfast spot that also included a "Shirley Temple" and "Roy Rogers".

Like they all dead, I couldn't tell you what any of those people did. Nothing is descriptive about any of those drinks. Its a black tea lemonade, a cherry ginger ale/sprite, and a cherry cola. Way, way easier.

IthacanPenny 17 points 1y ago

Yikes. Would you also be miffed by someone ordering (not at Starbucks but at like a bar) a screwdriver? Those are really, really common names for traditional American drinks. Also, not cherry, grenadine for both the Shirley Temple and the Roy Rodgers.

Ordinary-Theory-8289 6 points 1y ago

I would srgue that it’s 10000x easier to ask for a Shirley temple than say “can i get a ginger ale with grenadine and a cherry” I guarantee any waiter would reply with “oh a Shirley temple? Sure thing”

sheep_heavenly -1 points 1y ago

>I guarantee any waiter would reply with “oh a Shirley temple? Sure thing”

I can guarantee any waiter wouldn't, as evidenced by how OP and several others have said they've never heard of an Arnold Palmer. Some might, but not any and every.

sh3lbycakes2 21 points 1y ago

I used to work at a retirement home so I knew right away when someone ordered 🤣

lexibelles 4 points 1y ago

me too!!

al010901 17 points 1y ago

LMAO would not order that at a sbucks and i'm from florida and was literally born in the Arnold Palmer hospital i will defend the name to my death

Psychedelic_Doughnut 1 points 1y ago

Same lol. Born in that hospital and almost exclusively use that way to order lemonade and sweet tea, but to say that at a Starbucks is a little weird

DustbinFunkbndr 12 points 1y ago

Idk, an Arnold Palmer is a pretty established drink. I would just say something like “Absolutely! I’ve got a (insert size here) black tea lemonade. What else can we get you?”.

Out of all of the bullshit orders we deal with this isn’t one I would complain about lol.

aka_Marie 3 points 1y ago

not everyone knows that though…

ephemereaux 12 points 1y ago

Arnold Palmer, black/red eye, John Wayne… idk y’all’s codes just tell me what u want 😭😭

olivinemultichrome 17 points 1y ago

I swear every customer who asks for a red eye wants a different number of shots but they all get annoyed when I ask. Like can you please just be a normal human and say grande pike with two shots.

aka_Marie 10 points 1y ago

a red eye is one..

olivinemultichrome 4 points 1y ago

I’d like an official document with these names otherwise I’m going to keep asking since nobody can agree and it also seems to be regional. At my old store a green eye was one, red was two, black was three so idk.

aka_Marie 3 points 1y ago

red=1, black=2, green=3. there’s no official document with this because it’s not a starbucks thing but i’ve worked at stores in multiple states and this is what i’ve been told at all of them. they told us an easy way to remember it, if you’re hit in the eye once it’ll be red, twice will be a black eye.

Ordinary-Theory-8289 8 points 1y ago

They get one unless they specify otherwise

voidsalts 6 points 1y ago

I just learned what a red eye was this week 😭 wtf is a John wayne

ephemereaux 3 points 1y ago

Two shots with vanilla and cream but it’s supposed to be done a certain way ig?? Nobody really cares about that at my store tho 🤣

Jumpinlove 11 points 1y ago

I’m cryinggg this one time these two middle school aged girls came in and one of them ordered that. I was so confused, I’ve never heard of that before until she explained what it was 😭 just order it as a iced tea with lemonade wtf

stealingsight 6 points 1y ago

someone asked for our dollar menu and i told him to go to the 7-11 across the street

canidieyet_ 6 points 1y ago

I haaaaate when people order things like an “arnold palmer”. I know what it is but it’s literally not that hard to say a “tea with lemonade”….not to mention we have more than just one kind of tea

please stop using nicknames for menu items and use the actual names k thx <3

V3L0C1RPT0R 1 points 1y ago

I rather deal with Arnold Palmers

than

"4 shots of espresso over ice with 5 pumps of W mocha and extra extra extra caramel. With a splash of soy, but make sure is to the top please."

impasse602 3 points 1y ago

I feel like it’s a more sophisticated way to order

Koalastars009 3 points 1y ago

I’ve been getting that too. I just tell them I know he’s a golfer who passed away a few years ago. But I don’t think he ever made a Starbucks drink.

ladytaters 3 points 1y ago

And this is how I learn that Arnold Palmer is dead. I honestly didn't know.

Beardzesty 2 points 1y ago

So its trendy to not know what it is or is it trendy to know what it is? Cause its pretty common knowledge in food and bev industry that thats what an Arnold palmer is

taxighost 0 points 1y ago

the point is i’m a 17 year old with a job simply to fill up my amazon cart - i don’t care about what’s trendy in an industry i won’t be apart of after i graduate. that’s how it is with most of my coworkers as well

JustTrynaTakeABreak 2 points 1y ago

Tell me why I literally had a customer yesterday order “an Arnold Palmer with lemonade” 🙄

ladyelenawf 4 points 1y ago

Same reason people use "ATM machines."

gay_robots 2 points 1y ago

“Can I get a Kevin?”

“Ma’am this isn’t tinder”

crzyshiba 2 points 1y ago

Lmaoo I can also say I had a customer ask for the exact same thing lol what’s next a Long Island ice tea hold the liquor hahah

IthacanPenny 9 points 1y ago

>a Long Island ice tea hold the liquor

That would be a cup of ice with a splash of coke.

V3L0C1RPT0R 1 points 1y ago

Made me die. Hahaha.

peachiez_ 2 points 1y ago

one of my coworkers had to explain what this was to me the first time i heard someone order it like this in drive thru 😭 i literally looked at the screen like “….. a what ……”

_lips_like_sugar_ 1 points 1y ago

Thats what they're called...wouldn't bother me.

urlocaltransboy 1 points 1y ago

reminds me of when someone asked for skim milk this week and the green bean taking an order looked at me in panic. i replied, “….non-fat?”

[deleted] [OP] 1 points 1y ago

First time someone said this to me, and I told them I have no idea what they're talking about; They were more upset that I didnt know that hes some golf player, rather than not know its a black tea lemonade.

shikiP 1 points 1y ago

Never heard that one before. Good to know though

badtz_maru_666 1 points 1y ago

I’m screaming 😭

mrcupcake18 1 points 1y ago

YES! OMG!! Every damn time people say these weird names I’m just like…..you realize we are not a local/hipster/fancy coffee shop right? I just laugh at how pretentious it sounds😂😂

No_Introduction8689 1 points 1y ago

someone said this to my coworker on DTO one time and i had to explain what it was to them😪they were from the north

NorthoftheCanal 18 points 1y ago

Arnold Palmer’s are very common in the north. Edited to add: Arnold Palmer was from Pennsylvania. I don’t consider Pennsylvania “the south.”

rttbeana 0 points 1y ago

LMFAOOOO WJCJAJDJ WHO IS THAT

[deleted] [OP] -2 points 1y ago

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shosh_c 3 points 1y ago

Do you have a source for that claim? I’ve never heard that before, and when I tried searching myself I couldn’t find anything.

madamesoybean 2 points 1y ago

You know what? I'm very glad you challenged this. I was mixing him up with Jack Nicklaus who was a Trump supporter & said horrible things supporting white supremecy while visiting the UK. I'll delete the mistake post. Thank you! (chemo brain)

shosh_c 2 points 1y ago

It’s takes a lot to own up to a mistake, I appreciate that! Hope chemo goes well.

Ordinary-Theory-8289 -2 points 1y ago

Source? He was an old white golfer from PA

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