it is pathetically tiny compared to the volume of customers we get.

We haven’t had a renovation in at least half a decade… Lol

Our bathrooms are technically in another “unit” of the building (the hallway), so we can’t place maintenance orders to the landlord when they need repairs, which is often. Still our responsibility to clean and stock, though…

something is super weird about the water system in town, our big pitcher rinser flies off the sink all of the time because of random increases of water pressure. our parking lot is notorious for how poorly it was made, everyone get blocked in if the drive thru line is too long. the store is a tiny, off the interstate store so we get way more in store traffic than you would expect. we got a remodel but our bathrooms didn’t, the other day a pipe exploded in the bathroom and began to flood the store

our drive thru curves weird and sometimes during the dark morning, customers cant see it and drive right over the sidewalk (that has a curb LOL) and end up in our parking lot, checking their car

we have no "back" at all...but instead an employees-only basement >:)

the pros:

\- the lower floor is actually a LOT larger than our *actual cafe space (including the bar floor)* so we have a lot of open space, extra storage, and of course an employee bathroom that will never be touched by a customer \*knocks on wood\*.

\- instead of hauling ice up a flight of stairs or down a hallway we have an ice machine directly next to the end of the bar!

\- did I mention no customer bathroom? and never lacking a place to sit and place your things?

the cons:

\- customers trying to go downstairs to despite our signs begging them not to

\- hauling milk jugs up a flight of stairs 5 times for a restock

\- cleaning stairs

\- stairs

Ours is infested with fruit flies 🤷🏻‍♀️ I’ve gotten really good at catching them mid air. that’s something to write home about I guess.

We just had renovations and now our cold bar is at the end of the counter which means customers sitting at the table across from it are occasionally splashed with water from the rinser in the sink. So that’s fun..!

mine used to be a bank lol

Supposedly it's the second biggest Starbucks west of the Mississippi or some crap like that. I guess it used to be the biggest for a long time but a couple years ago a bigger one was built in WA.

we have a giant skylight over ours (like the entire ceiling is glass) that makes it super fucking hot like we are in TEXAS

my store’s building used to be a Wendy’s so it’s incredibly large. Our back room is bigger than some stores I’ve filled in at

i realize this is a blessing but my store doesn’t have floor mats… just built in with a nonslip floor 😳 idk how common that is but i’ve yet to see another sbux that’s the same way

other than the store being tiny, the cafe is always really hot while the back is always freezing and the ice machine throws ice every time somebody walks by it, but we are getting an renovation soon

Our building is really old and the electrical is outdated. For some reason this makes our water all weird.. A full batch of Pike will overflow until you pull a grande and our shots are only good shots about 40% of the time.

Also I open and I am absolutely convinced my store is haunted. I call him Ghosty Boi and he has his closet he lives in

we do not have fire sprinklers

Our bars and handoff are alllllll the way inside the back of the store next to the bathrooms. Customers stand by the warming stations all the time and just look at us while waiting for drinks

No back door

2 car distance between ordering box and window. makes it nearly impossible to get peak times below a 45.

That’s my store’s problem as well 😅

Our filtered water comes out where we rinse our pitchers at. So we put unfiltered water in everything and give out unfiltered water. When they build the building, they put the wrong pipes in the wrong spots

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The bathroom located in the back of the building, that we share with the other businesses in the complex. It has one working toilet, the sink doesn’t work, and the lock is busted. I’m not the biggest fan of the public bathroom in the store, but that back bathroom gives me the heebie jeebies

Ours used to be a Long John Silver's and is super, super tiny with just a bizarre layout. It doesn't really look like a Starbucks at all.

Our grease trap overflows if you use the Hobart so like shit spelling water floods from the back