Never worked at a regular Starbucks but I work at a tarbucks. As long as you’re staffed good, all will be fine. Unfortunately my store has been short staffed and it has been so stressful. I have gone up to 6 hours at the cafe by myself on the weekends with no one else and I simultaneously have to make drinks, clean dishes, and refill products. Also, if you’re there alone and having trouble with something, don’t count on any regular target employees being able to help you, no one ever knows what’s going on at the Starbucks.
All in all, it’s not horrible. There are days where we’re not busy and it’s nice.

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It’s pretty stressful at times, but it’s nicer than working at a stand-alone (I’ve worked both). It’s nice not having a drive-thru and mobile orders but sometimes they will schedule you by yourself. I will say if you don’t have starbucks experience it is an ENORMOUS amount of information to take in, and I’m putting that lightly. Remembering drinks, dates, and cleaning processes is a lot. It takes months to get it down but you only get 40 hrs of training. It can be fun if you make it fun and stay positive but if you don’t handle high-stress situations it probably isn’t for you.

Absolutely not

idk about tarbucks, but i work at a krobucks. i’ve got a friend in management at a corporate store and she’s tried to get me to apply to one for a while now, but i got hired on at $12.25 and from what i understand i’d only make $10 at corporate. i think we’re definitely a lot less busy since we don’t have a drive through on top of in person customers, but we’re chronically understaffed and management is useless since they know nothing about how to run the kiosk typically. all in all i think the stress level is probably similar. we can’t take tips, but from what my friend has told me tips aren’t that much anyways. i’d say the free drinks and merch are the main draw of working at “real” starbucks, cause otherwise i get pretty similar benefits from what i can tell

The first 3-6 months are stressful as all get out because Starbucks is fast paced and you won't know how to do anything so you'll move slow and feel stressed but once you learn the things and settle in then it's a nice part time job to save money. With a good team and free coffee the shifts fly by and I am heading into my second year with positive vibes. So, if you give it time it is but it doesn't start out that way.

Yes. Absolutely. And they're unionized!!

Hell no

Target pays more

You will get a discount at Target, and the Target pay rate, so there are your pluses.
You will be understaffed all the time and most leadership in the store will not be able to help you. Many times there will be no one to cover your break.

target barista after transferring from cooperate DT store. yes/no. the pay is hella better. benefits are cool. it’s a lot less busier than a regular starbucks but considering you are only ever scheduled with 1-3 other people. it’s slightly better than corporate store but you get way better breaks, pay, scheduling, etc. personally i love my target starbucks team cause like our manager is an awesome 22yr old hot pink hair boss. but it will def vary by store.

Job is way easier, management is horrendous at most targets I've worked at in the past. Glad that I'm at corporate now.