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Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind

Full History - 2021 - 10 - 29 - ID#qi9j6w
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Questions: Answer whatever you feel you can or wish too no pressure 🙏 (self.starbucksbaristas)
submitted by Think-Ad-5514
1. How do I make the passion tea lemonades and iced passion tea no lemonade?

2. Iced Americanos— how do I make this?


3. Is there such thing as an iced cappuccino?

4. Chocolate Almondmilk shaken expresso — HOW TO?

5. Iced Chai tea latte — ??

6. Cold brews how many pumps of syrup?
StoppedBucket 15 points 1y ago
1. In the shaker: passion tea to the base line, lemonade to the water/lemonade/milk line, and then ice to the ice line. For the passion tea with no lemonade, you would do the same thing, just with water instead of lemonade. Shake 10 times, then pour into cup and hand out
2. Shots: Short-1; Tall-2; Grande-3; Venti-4 (Both hot and iced americanos get the same number of shots) For iced americanos, after the shots are pulled, fill the cup to the top line(third line) with cold water, add ice, and hand out
3. There’s a bit of a debate with this one from what I’ve seen. Technically there is an iced cappuccino, but most people don’t make it or know how. To make it, you queue your shots (1T/2G/3V), add any syrup if asked (3/4/6) (standard is no syrup), then pour milk to the third line. Add ice and cold foam (made with nonfat milk)
4. Shaken espressos get 2T/3G/4V shots which are pulled in the shot glass. While the shots are pulling, get a shaker and fill it with the correct amount of ice (tall scoop for tall, grande for grande, venti for venti) and 1/2/3 scoops malt powder. Pour the shots on top in the shaker, shake 10 times and pour into cup. Add almond milk (shake first) and fill, leaving about 1/4 inch of room at the top
5. 3/4/6 pumps chai, milk to the third line (2% is standard), add ice and hand out
6. Standard recipe gives 1Tl/2G/3V/4Tr pumps of vanilla syrup for the pumpkin cream cold brew, salted cream cold brew, and vanilla sweet cream cold brew. The honey almond milk cold brew follows this recipe as well, with honey blend instead of vanilla. Regular cold brew and cold brew with milk come standard with no pumps of syrup
Edit: Chocolate almond milk shaken espresso doesn’t get classic syrup (or any syrup), only the regular iced shaken espresso does (3/4/6). The brown sugar shaken espresso gets 3/4/6 pumps of brown sugar
StoppedBucket 7 points 1y ago
Also you can look up specific drink recipes on the app! It should tell you the shots/pumps that each drink gets, if any
NyanBecca 3 points 1y ago
For the iced cappuccino the standard is actually hot foam on top the milk and ice. This was before the cloud drinks. They changed it to cold foam when they released the cloud machiatto but then discontinued it.
New_Consequence_5184 2 points 1y ago
Wait, there's classic in the chocolate almond milk shaken espresso??? Have I been doing this wrong for 6 months?
StoppedBucket 1 points 1y ago
No that’s my bad, I was thinking of a regular iced shaken espresso, I fixed that in my original post
New_Consequence_5184 2 points 1y ago
Lol fair. Just had a full existential crisis over coffee. Working at Starbs is an experience
StoppedBucket 1 points 1y ago
I agree with you there lol
No-Adhesiveness7163 1 points 1y ago
How much cold foam do you add to the iced cappuccino? I have seen some coworkers do half foam, half milk. I have also seen light foam, more milk.
Material-Leg5325 2 points 1y ago
iirc it is in between— the way I was taught was actually milk to the 2nd line, ice, foam. also what I was taught for cbs w/foam. as long as you are not adding too much or too little ice, it should leave about an inch (maybe a little more? i have bad spatial reasoning) for cold foam.
Think-Ad-5514 [OP] 1 points 1y ago
Thank you very much 🙏
StoppedBucket 2 points 1y ago
You’re welcome!!
Think-Ad-5514 [OP] 5 points 1y ago
Could you please help me with the matcha green tea latte how to make this? And also the chai tea latte hot?

Im sorry i just don’t feel comfortable asking the shift lead I’m working w today and I want to be prepared. I appreciate your patience very much!
justtimingthepast 2 points 1y ago
Hot chai lattes will get 2S/3T/4G/5V pumps of chai, and then will be filled to the middle of the cup (near the siren’s eyes on the outside) with hot water. Then the rest of the cup will be filled with steamed milk, 2% is still standard.
justtimingthepast 2 points 1y ago
Matcha Green Tea Latte:
For hot, you will add 2% milk (unless another is specified) to a steaming pitcher at the appropriate size line. The first full line under the MAX line dash will be for a venti, count down lines for smaller sizes. Take the pitcher to your cold bar and add scoops of matcha powder to the pitcher following frappuccino proportions (2T, 3G, 4V). Then, you’ll steam the mixture, trying your best to incorporate all of the matcha powder, but this can get tricky lol. Try getting the milk to swirl by placing the steam wand near the outer edge and holding the pitcher at an angle. You will usually have matcha left over, but as long as you don’t pour chunks into the cup you’ll be fine. Then you just pour it in the cup once it finishes steaming and you’re good to go.
Iced is MUCH easier in my opinion. Grab a shaker and fill it to the milk line with 2% (unless otherwise specified). Then add matcha powder following the same rules as above, ice to the ice line for whatever size you are making, and then shake until all the matcha dissolves. Voila!
StoppedBucket 2 points 1y ago
Of course! It’s no problem at all!
For the matcha it’s 2% to the correct line in the milk steaming pitchers. Put 1S/2T/3G/4V scoops matcha into the steamer and steam with the milk, then pour it into the cup and hand out.
The hot chai is 2/3/4/5 pumps chai, 1/2 the cup filled with hot water and the other half filled with steamed 2%
codysuxx 1 points 1y ago
1. This is easy because all the information you need will be on the shaker itself. Both come standard sweetened with liquid cane sugar (the amount of pumps will be shown on the shaker for each size: 3,4,6,7). Passion tea to the first line, lemonade to the “water” line (2nd line from the top). So basically it’s half passion tea, half lemonade, add your sweetener, add the ice, shake 10 times. The process is the same for no lemonade, so instead of lemonade it’s water (keep in mind that the teas themselves are actually concentrated).

2. Iced americanos - you will use the cup for measurement. Shots of espresso are 2, 3, 4 for tall, grande, venti (respectively). Add the shots into the cup and add cold filtered water to the top black line on the cup, then add ice. If they want cream or milk added, you would do water to the 2nd black line, then cream or milk to the third, then add ice. Easy.

3. Iced cappuccinos are uncommon but from what I remember… pretty sure you make it like an iced latte, but when you fill the milk after espresso, only fill to the 2nd black line, and when you add ice, leave about 1-2 inches of room at the top of the cup. Then you add cold foam (add 150 ml non fat milk to the cold foam pitcher, blend on 4). Add the foam and that’s it.

4. Add whatever size scoop of ice you need to the shaker. Add 2, 3, 4 (tall, grande, venti) scoops of the chocolate malt powder to the shaker. Pull 2, 3, 4 shots of espresso and add over the ice. Shake ten times… notice there will be room at the top of the cup when you pour… that is for your almond milk. Top with a lid and that’s it!

5. Iced Chai is the EASIEST drink and you’ll grow to love when people order it. You’ll pump the chai just like any other latte, so 3 pumps for tall, 4 grande, 6 venti, add 2% to the top black line, add ice. Done.

6. Cold brews, from what I’ve noticed in some new recipes, typically get 1 less pump than standard. So 2, 3 , 4, and 6 for Trenta. However, I’d recommend you find or look at the recipe cards because cold brews can be tricky. Some have even less (1,2,3,5) … so I’d recommend you ask to look over the recipe cards and even take photos of them.


I hope this helps! Good luck!
Crowchick1731 5 points 1y ago
The teas don't come sweetened by default anymore!
Think-Ad-5514 [OP] 1 points 1y ago
Thank you 🙏
echowolf9 1 points 1y ago
The teas recipe change a few months ago and they no longer become sweetened by default.
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