I had a male customer come in the other day 10/29/21 round 7pm and he ordered two drinks. The first one was a venti caramel macchiato IIRC and the other one I had thought he ordered the apple crisp macchiato. Nope, turns out to be the apple caramel spice drink (usually called apple cider by our customers) and I had to tell him we didn’t have the cinnamon dolce to make it. I wasn’t really annoyed, just a bit peeved… well folks the whole story takes a turn into the most positive direction and becomes one of my favorite interactions ever, when he nicely asks me if I could whip up anything similar to it for his wife, who had been 30 hours into labor. I don’t know why but it just clicks in me and now suddenly I’m like hell yeah I can do that for you! So here’s my little dupe for it :)! For a venti sized one, I grabbed the steaming pitcher and put two pumps of caramel and brown sugar into it, then of course poured apple juice to the venti line. After that I grabbed the cinnamon dolce topping and put I’d say two table spoons into the pitcher, then I steamed the sweet concoction. I poured this into two little cups, had him taste one and I taste the other before we both agreed it was pretty correct to the original taste! So I decidedly make two ventis of these for his wife, put the whip, caramel drizzle and dolce topping on each ofc… and gave them to him for free. He was so kind and looked so relived, I hope the two drinks he originally ordered got him through the rest of her labor and that his wife enjoyed her sweet treat after. Kindness from both ends go a long way (he was extremely polite when he came in to order btw, thanking me and everything!) and I would feel so special if a barista took the extra care and time to make my labor just a touch easier. I also like to think that if my boyfriend came into a starbucks for a similar situation like this man that he’d hopefully be given the same kindness as well. Just a little story that I thought to share about this special interaction that has become my favorite ♡