I think anything like this is very store by store, yeah. Honestly though, I think many/most corporate stores are so pressed for time that something important is getting skipped tbh. I don't know how common this particular thing is, but I've worked at at least one store that wasn't regularly doing it.


Heck the amount of water solvable date dots that still existed on dishes in the "clean dishes" section that I've seen....

No one at any of the stores I worked at took the nozzle off 🥴🥴 everyone would thoroughly wash otherwise, though, so whip was never caked on the nozzles like that

... i didnt know the white part came off until right now.

I used to take the nozzles off, but found that so many of their threads got stripped and you couldn’t get them off, they would just keep turning, so I quit doing it. I always make sure I thoroughly wash them by spraying hot water straight down the nozzle, don’t know what else to do.

We just spray the whip out of ours and then wash it

I’ve worked at a half dozen corporate stores in the NYC metro area; none of them have taken apart the nozzle tops on purpose.

Sometimes on CS, I’d see the nozzle would come off by accident and I’d wash it and put it back on but no one has ever told me specifically to do it. I do make sure to rinse the nozzle from the opening but since the whipped cream tops are cleaned anywhere from 1-3 times a day in these high volume stores, there’s never enough time for the cream to cake onto it.

I’ve noticed a similar thing with caramel drizzle bottles, fairly few [only ever worked with corporate ones]baristas take off the metal bottom piece, and usually clean it as two pieces(instead of 3), but that doesn’t get rid of the caramel in the nozzle and has caused problems for me before.

No that’s not normal

I can say with confidence that cleanliness has suffered since they reduced qasa audits. There are Health code violations every single day, so many of them. I don't love this the way I used to. People got sloppy, lazy, and the attitudes, wtf.

I haven’t washed one yet, so i wanna ask. How do you take it apart?

You are supposed to take them apart and clean them through. At least I do 🤷🏾‍♂️

I THOUGHT THIS WAS ABOUT ME FOR A SECOND NGL. but i also went from corporate -> to licensed. i worked at a corporate store for a while and was never trained on how to take them apart and clean them. but i did think it was weird that they weren’t taken apart so i would always make sure to rinse the nozzles through with extra boiling hot water. and then when i went to a licensed store i was like: my theories were right! tbh i think it’s just because a lot of ppl genuinely just don’t know they come apart.

I feel like our store is about 75% on this. Do we take them apart every single time? No. I can say I’m even guilty of this. But when you’re staring down a Saturday afternoon of Frappuccino hell in 90 degree weather and burned through all your whips by noon, you do what you have to do to get them washed and chilled ASAP.

That being said, if it’s a *practice* of not doing it, that’s gross.

We take them apart every time we wash them at our corporate sbux. Maybe it depends on the manager or whomever trains the shifts to make sure we’re doing them correctly. I don’t know, but I won’t be ordering drinks with whipped cream from most Starbucks stores from now on lol

We don’t remove the whip nozzles at my store….We also don’t do the drains, melt the ice at night, or even do clean play anymore. :/

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Ahh welcomed to the world of licensed stores lol

We wash them we we have the time to. It’s sometimes lol.

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Its normal. I was told to stop taking them apart because it saves time. Same with a couple other things. If ppl get sick its not ur fault lmao, ur just an employee dont stress yourself. You’re bound to get sick every once in a while shopping at fast food anyways.