Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind
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silly question (self.starbucksbaristas)
submitted by lanceofruin
i’m still pretty green and this is prob a dumb question but i had a customer come in the other day and ask for a drip coffee and i had no idea what that meant. is it just a hot coffee? a pour over? help :(
Spoiledkittykat 14 points 1y ago
It’s just hot coffee
lanceofruin [OP] 1 points 1y ago
thank you! :)
heyoliviasmith 8 points 1y ago
This made me so mad and confused when I first started. I had no clue what they were talking about either. Unfortunately, I feel like this “coffee shop” language and slang does not translate well for Starbucks oddly enough. There’s been a few things customers have said I didn’t understand, but it was coffee shop terminology.
lanceofruin [OP] 8 points 1y ago
i agree! i didn’t know other terms like “red eye” or “dirty chai” until people ordered them. like it’s not covered in the training and starbucks is glorified fast food so traditional coffee shop terms aren’t touched on
heyoliviasmith 4 points 1y ago
Dirty chai was understood for me, but there were too many black eyes, green eyes, red eyes. I couldn’t keep up, and most customers would get mad when I had to have them remind me how many shots go in each one. It’s confusing. 🥴
pettyanon12 1 points 1y ago
What does red eye even me w
heyoliviasmith 2 points 1y ago
Dude I swear people just started making shit up and expected me to know what it was.
dontlook4tme 2 points 1y ago
this happened to me today lmao some lady asked for a drip coffee and i assumed she meant a pour over and she was staring at me from across the store while im making it and she comes over and asks whats taking so long and then she explains that she wanted hot coffee
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