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Full History - 2021 - 11 - 24 - ID#r0xdgz

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question time (self.starbucksbaristas)

submitted by AcanthisittaLazy2681

i have a question for y’all bc like usual every single starbucks seems wildly inconsistent from the rest. at my store, if food is going out at the end of the night the closers are allowed to take it home with them. my location is seemingly the only one in my city that allows us to do this? i am aware this is technically against the rules but i’ve seen posts on this subreddit mentioning doing the same. so whats the unofficial policy at your store?

sero5074 31 points 1y ago

Like, the fact that we get an overabundance of food product now bc of Automated ordering, we are tossing more than we were before. It drives us nuts. We have started taking home full bags of sandwiches, egg bites, and pastries to bring to the local Food Shelter and to hand out to our homeless, which is ridiculously high in my area.

medusas-garden 4 points 1y ago

Talk to your SM about participating in the food share program. All stores should be able to do this, it’s just a matter of setting it up. Three times a week Salvation Army comes and picks up our expired food so there isn’t any waste. I’m also baffled that your egg bites are expiring bc those are good for a week after defrosting.

gltgphone 1 points 1y ago

I think mine gives to hunger task force! Idk, we have a big sign. Starbucks is very proud.

sero5074 1 points 1y ago

Oou okay! And yeah we don’t sell a lot.

sero5074 19 points 1y ago

Unofficially we are allowed to take it bc otherwise it gets thrown away, and most of us are neurotic about food waste (the pastry case drives us insane).

AcanthisittaLazy2681 [OP] 17 points 1y ago

oh my god same. since starbucks has become mostly drive thru the pastry case makes no sense, plus i feel like most of the customers already know what we have. also cleaning it is so annoying and i’m sure warming up everything and putting it together in the morning sucks even worse. Abolish the pastry case fr

BiochemistChef 8 points 1y ago

Some stores actually have gotten cardboard cut outs of the food, I'm guessing as a test to see if corporate will roll it out. My old store got a few of them (not for everything though) by the time I left a year ago but some stores in the area had gotten full sets

BuffyBoltonVampFlayr 6 points 1y ago

I was literally told that Sbux doesn't use plastic/cardboard/fake food for the case because "THEY ARE TOO EXPENSIVE"... like who tf doin your math boo boo cause that shit makes zero sense

jae459 5 points 1y ago

A store in my district is due for a remodel and supposedly since they are moving to a DT forward model they are knocking out food case and one of the registers.

FfierceLaw 3 points 1y ago

I agree 100%. I’m in a drive through and cafe store and I get on edge when customers walk in talking on their phones starting into the case, planning what to buy when I know there are no less than 3 flies in there and we have run out of many items but haven’t removed them. I have removed and tossed things while they ponder. I would love to have it taken away and perhaps make it a cafe-only handoff so we don’t accumulate as much of a crowd where mobiles are handed off

OakTreeTrash 11 points 1y ago

One of the shift leads I work with has a “If I don’t see it I don’t say anything” about the food. I think it’s more a safety thing, so we have to be careful about not handing it out after or anything and that’s why they try to avoid it.

voxinx 10 points 1y ago

It’s apparently considered theft? is what my sm said. As a shift I just don’t see hungry baristas who are struggling right now taking anything.

-beam-me-up- 8 points 1y ago

I always make sure to dump it all ~~into the pastry bags of my hungry baristas~~

FfierceLaw 7 points 1y ago

If you have a closing shift nice enough to let you take home food, don’t talk it up, be discreet, officially it’s supposed to be pitched. Don’t let it get back to the DM just take it and keep mum

Beautiful-Director 7 points 1y ago

Unofficially we are allowed to take it home at my store. I actually brought home some paninis and grilled cheeses tonight.

plushiequeenaspen 1 points 1y ago

I told my closers at tarbux they could take whatever food they wanted after close provided that: it was already expired, they gave customers first dibs on everything (no pretending we're out bc you want the last one), and they didn't intentionally pull extra food to increase waste and have more available. I also informed them that it was technically theft, so be discreet, but that I would turn a blind eye.

System worked just fine. My first corporate store had a similar rule, but I only opened at my other two so idk what they did.

tiredbarista61937 1 points 1y ago

we donate the majority of ours in yellow bags that the delivery drivers pick up and supposedly donate, but we suspect the drivers just eat it lol. depending on which shift is working, we’ll take 2 or 3 things home. (we haven’t been too over-stocked from auto-ordering so there usually isn’t tons)

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