that's been the policy the whole time (decades maybe?) but you try telling Karen she has to ask for a sleeve every time. Same reason we're never getting rid of straws lol

If it contains hot water or gets steamed extra hot it needs a sleeve, ventis always get a sleeve other wise it is not needed unless requested by a customer

This was in a weekly update like a month ago.

Hot coffee, americano, and extra hot drinks always get sleeves. Regular temp lattes get no sleeve except venti unless requested

there was a weekly update some time ago that said regular temp lattes don’t get sleeves anymore. however my store has decided that’s completely BS because a cup of milk steamed at 160 degrees still burns my hand, so. we still sleeve all drinks or double cup them. besides it slows us down even more when everyone keeps asking for sleeves. it wastes enough time as is when people are screeching about straws every second.

If I'm not mistaken I'm pretty sure you're supposed to sleeve hot drinks at least like americanos or hot coffee automatically. As per the training guide. A recent weekly update that informed us on shortages regarding stoppers and sleeves said not to sleeve drinks but it's understandable with lattes/espresso drinks.

That's the new standard but I don't get it 🥴 why TF would they decide to not give sleeves

The only drinks I won’t sleeve normally are talls. Everything else gets a sleeve bc when I don’t, I guarantee you the customer will ask for one. It’s just easier to go ahead and do it. Also sorry, but I’m also double cupping venti americanos and brewed teas. The water is so hot that it weakens the cup and is too hot to hold even with a sleeve sometimes. I know it’s not standard but I’m trying to reduce my risk of being burned.

I’ve never burnt myself on any of these? I mean if the drink is water (and therefore 200 degrees) you should be still putting sleeves on it but otherwise it doesn’t really seem hot enough.

I am so confused with all the comments saying it's always been a rule?? I've worked at 7 different stores by now and we've always sleeved all of our drinks? 160 degrees for a regular latte is hecking hot, and for me it's too hot to hold sometimes. I've spilled hot lattes on my hand before and it's immediately turned red and puffy- and like another said, it's just an accident waiting to happen with customers. We ran out of sleeves just recently for the day and customers weren't happy that we didn't have them for their drinks.

I been working for starbucks 2 years now. Always sleeved hot cups, this “new” rule is a load of horse shit. Starbucks will do ANYTHING to save money especially paying us more. Money grubbing bitches

tfw your weekly updates keep going missing by my evening shifts so you've been automatically sleeving all hot drinks... well, good to know going forward!

(also i know you can read them online from the store computers but im not using my tens/lunches to do that lol)

it’s always been policy to ONLY sleeve ventis (unless it’s in the case of hot water drinks), but… i agree. i think it’s an issue waiting to happen, plus, no matter what, people always ask for a sleeve. it’s much less time consuming to just sleeve the drink. :/

it’s corporate policy but if i touch it and it hurts me i put a sleeve on it

U can hold it on the top so u don’t burn urself. I never burn myself holding it like that. Any hot drinks need a sleeve. You manager makes no sense.

Well in the update before Christmas launch they stated that slaves wouldn’t be offered unless the customer asked but my manger said that’s stupid and we are going to continue to put sleeves on cups unless we run out of sleeves.

I’ve been working for about a month and my store sleeves ALL hot drinks

Was in weekly update awhile back but we don’t follow the ruler change cause it’s dumb af

That’s the standard. Venti drinks or “hot water” drinks are the only thing that get sleeves

I can tell you for certain (because I had to specifically look it up for backup before I left the company) that:

1) ALL hot drinks made with hot water (hot tea, hot coffee, hot chai latte) get a sleeve no matter what size

2) Any hot drinks made with dairy or non-dairy, grande or smaller, do NOT get sleeved unless requested by a customer

3) ALL venti hot drinks, no matter the type, always get sleeved

This is on partner hub under the Beverage Resource Manual. Starbucks updated the policy about a month ago (probably to be cheap or because of supply chain issues). My former SM had told baristas that hot drinks don't get sleeved anymore, and I thought that was really strange and dangerous, so I looked it up and wow, lo and behold, *most drinks still get sleeved* 😱

If your manager gives you flak, challenge them to look it up and show you specifically, because they're definitely wrong

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It’s not standard to sleeves except for specific drinks. It’s cuz of the shortage so why use up sleeves and then have none when you could only use it when necessary and I believe Canada has been doing it for a long time? Or maybe they give their drinks without lids 🤔 I forgot but I think I read something like that