shake shack to starbucks, stbx was so easy it’s insane. but any job has its hard labor parts someones

I come from Taco Bell background and it helps in my opinion, that fast paced back and forth multi tasking environment is familiar grounds. It’s getting down the recipes & standards of making drinks and knowledge in knowing where things are on the computer when ringing up customers correctly to get to a point of swiftness.

soooo much easier. i had already adapted to the fast pace environment and shitty customers

Tim Hortons to Starbucks. Very easy transition, but starbucks customers are A Lot more entitled.

I worked for a very popular Cuban bakery in CA that serves thousands of people a day and my job involved learning the menu and what we served each day, which did involve taking a test 30 days after employment (could only miss up to 5 answers), and preparing/memorizing orders either by memory or writing it down and boxing up the pastries/desserts/cake,etc.. it was BUSY, the most hectic job I’ve ever worked. Transferring from that to a high volume Tarbucks/Target Cafe then to a Starbucks has made it very easy. Starbucks is very fast paced and can be manageable at times, but it all depends on location. If you already have a high tolerance with complex customers and situations at Taco Bell and reference that when working for the Siren, you’ll do just fine! It’s all the same tbh.

So easy! McDonald’s and Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut experience before and it was really easy to pick Up

ihop to dunkin to starbucks. starbucks is by fair the easiest and most fun job i’ve had. the other jobs definitely did help with the fast paced environment as ihop was literally 4 straight hours of rush in the mornings

It helped so much for me since I already had the hustle and multitask mindset

Much easier. I used to work at a local burger chain between like 4 churches and across from a highschool so saying we got busy was an understatement.
When I started training at a kiosk grocery store sbux it was during our fantastic 2021 heatwave of 110-115*f at the end of June, and was learning the drinks as the trainers were shifted at how busy it was with the suffocating heat outside.

The store i did my first week of training at was not the store I was hired for, but they already were training one other person and figured I would pick things up faster in the grocery chains corporate store(in the managers words "I'm sending them the person i think will pick it up fastest")


But I guess the heatwave was bringing everyone in for cold drinks&AC lol
My trainer said it was xmas level busy, trying to assure me it was rare to be that busy lol

I said if this is the busiest it gets I'll be just fine haha


But that kiosk definitely wasn't as busy as the one I was hired and worked at for 6 months, which is weird considering the one I worked at had 3 other starbucks locations on the same street within 5 minutes of each other and like 8 other mom&pop coffee shops, a dutch bros(and now a black rock)
All within 10 minutes of each other at most. There was a coffee shop in the parking lot of the grocery store where i worked 🤣

But even with the insane amount of people determined to get coffee at this kiosk, and working alone, it wasn't ever nearly as intense as fast food got.

Wendy’s to Starbucks. By far the easiest transition I’ve had since I’ve started working in high school.

Went from a line cook at Hat Creek to the siren, and it was so easy of an adjustment that I was shocked when people say they hated it here. Turns out work doesn't suck so much when your norm was a hot, stuffy, and greasy kitchen that had you coming home with burns at least once a week.

I came from subway, which helped because I already had to memorize a large, customizable menu and deal with very specific orders. For me, Starbucks was just more systematic and fast paced. But the previous food handling and customer service experience helped me jump into the Starbucks environment with confidence. I’d say my biggest challenge at Starbucks was learning to work a drive thru because (luckily) my subway did not have one. Hope this helps ❤️

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