I’m pretty sure standard is to wash between every use, and I’ve never seen anyone do otherwise. But on a personal level, I don’t think I’d fine it icky if a store was going through them extremely fast. Say if you keep four out and go through them every day and wash them every other. That’s still 7x fresher than a store that (hypothetically somehow) doesn’t go through it for two weeks.

After being used, the caramel bottles have been exposed and/or likely in contact with: whipped cream, milk foam, coffee/grounds, syrup, variations in temperature, and have been handled by multiple people, etc.

The shelf life for the product inside bares no impact on the dish itself being exposed to cross contamination, and thus it is always better to err on the side of caution and wash each dish once it has been depleted/used.

You are definitely in the right here.

Edited because my comment needed to *air* out. Typed on mobile, if i had done this on my laptop i would have caught that.

I have never refilled a caramel drizzle bottle without washing it. It’s standard for all containers to be washed when empty and being refilled.

If you’re going through drizzle faster than you can wash the bottles IMO your SM needs to order more bottles

We always wash ours when they’re empty. It seems a little gross to refill them because we don’t always use all the ones we make in a day anyways.

I was at a store briefly where they would do this with the metal pumps and just switch them to a new tub without washing them. It grossed me out so bad. You are absolutely correct, they should be washed between each refill.

No, refilled all day and washed at night upon closing

Why wouldn’t you wash them between use…

I’ve refilled certain things before when we’re really going through it and don’t have time to clean it. It’s not the best habit but when you’re always understaffed and don’t have room for more containers of any kind things are what they are.

If you don't,

𝙄 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪

The trays leave your hands silver even after they have been washed

We wash them every time they are empty before refilling.

I will do it if it’s the same day. We don’t always have time in the middle of peak to go to the back and wash something, plus a lot of our bottles have an extra heavy flow so they release caramel at about 4x the rate that they should and we run out quickly. Caramel goes in, it gets sealed, and caramel goes out. I don’t think it’s gross to just put more caramel in and seal it again. As long as it’s within one day.

We have a bunch of caramel bottles, but hardly any tops for them. If I see one that is nearly empty, I'll fill it without washing it just because I'm in a hurry and need for find an extra bottle to fill.

At my store we go through them pretty fast. Sometimes we wash them immediately after it’s empty but other times it’s so busy that we just refill them. But they all get washed several times a day depending how busy we get.

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Please wash the dishes lol, they just get gross from everyone touching them and getting splattered with syrup and other things. Like wash everything please, even if it’s not standard it’s too gross to me to leave it.

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At my store, as soon as they're empty they get taken to the back to be put on the sink to be taken apart and washed. Only exception, is when we are swamped and must be refilled on the go. However, they will get washed before the day ends.

My store washes them after use. Probably the right thing to do even if you use them quickly.

I think the grey/silver dust you mentioned is just the trays rubbing against the slot making metal dust. It probably is just aluminum dust or something. Idk if it's harmful, but I'd guess not. I wipe a tray if I see it left a mark on my hand.

Yes. But I am LS so I have time to wash everything.

If you think about it, if they never get washed, there wi ll be expired caramel in there. Nasty.

This is why I never get coffee except at my home store. Y'all be wildin' out there 👀

I’ve always thought tray residue is the metal of the tray rubbing off on your hands

I recently had to leave my core store for a licensed one. Here, they literally have two caramel squeeze bottles and refill them when they’re low directly from the slugs which have been open for hours (yuck!) and I don’t think they even get cleaned every night...

WHAT? that's disgusting yes we WASH them every time 😭

Ok so obviously they need to be washed between each use, and clearly your store needs to order more if your going through them so fast you need to fill them immediately like that. But, my question is, when do they get washed? Like is there a possibility that there is one that actually hasn’t been washed in a month due to this? I really need to know

What the. I can’t believe I’m reading this. We ALWAYS use clean containers to restock. Standard is for closing crew to have 6 full bottles prepped, minimum, your store may vary

🤢 refilling is gross Hands touching hands, opening lids and exposing to counter elements yuk

Yuuuuck

That's disgusting

Yes

I've always washed them when they are empty, thrown right into the sanitizer.....then again before I do mouth in foot just double check that its not a health thing....buit when I worked the bottles were cleaned when they were emptied.

My little kiosk, most people wash them after use. Our manager has us date them for one week so they get washed more often, which is mostly unnecessary as I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who waits till their date to wash them.


I do the same with inclusions as well.

We have a cabinet where we have the empty bottles and when we're refilling the bottles we grab the empty ones from there.

When we run out of Caramel syrup in a bottle we'll put it in the bin of dirty dishes and once cleaned we'll put the bottles back in that cabinet so when making more Caramel drizzle bottles there are clean ones to grab.

I think there's probably been a time when I was alone in my store at target where I may have done that but it definitely wasn't a normal thing even there and definitely isn't in the corporate store I'm at now.

They should be washed before refilling, just like everything else and your store should have enough bottles that it isn’t an issue.

You're store is disgusting and they're never going to learn. Transfer, you don't deserve that negativity.