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Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind

Full History - 2022 - 04 - 07 - ID#tyrdrk
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THERE WAS MOLD IN THE ICE BIN (self.starbucksbaristas)
submitted by anonbiotch01
My store manager doesn't even care and told us to just clean it!!!!! I'm crying I'm gonna quit i didn't sign up for this
Popperz4Brekkie 113 points 1y ago
Pink fuzz on the ice adds to the flavor profile + it’s so cute
iamnotabarbie 62 points 1y ago
The new pink drink edit-the new tiktok drink
anonbiotch01 [OP] 17 points 1y ago
BRUH
Anngggiiiee 5 points 1y ago
😂😂
board-certified 61 points 1y ago
the ice bin has weekly and monthly cleaning tasks to prevent mold…. maybe just clean it?….
bigghostb00ty 2 points 1y ago
Seems pretty simple
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TechnicalCap6619 46 points 1y ago
You new here?
anonbiotch01 [OP] 14 points 1y ago
Since September 😭😭😭 is it that common
TechnicalCap6619 53 points 1y ago
Unfortunately, yes. Those things produce more mildew and mold than ice bc of how wet it is inside. I'd guess close to 50% of stores don't clean them often enough to prevent it entirely, only slow it down and catch it when it's obvious. :(

Restaurants, I've heard, are worse.
BiochemistChef 14 points 1y ago
That's gross. My first store cleaned it every clean play (at like 11pm). Didn't run the green stuff through the unit because it was a really old and weird one that required a guy to come in for maintenance.


Occasionally got a little mold in the joints for the door but that was it. But thinking about my other jobs....ice isn't the cleanest
monzoink 1 points 1y ago
My store didn't do a clean play for literally like 5 months after the shift who always did them quit. We kept telling our manager we needed to do them and we tried our best to do \*some\* of the clean play tasks during the day but he didn't really care or something cuz it never happened
anonbiotch01 [OP] 7 points 1y ago
Wow.. that's so depressing to hear. I'm so upset about it
Emarie2200 3 points 1y ago
It should be cleaned every clean play night 😬 so you might want to suggest that they take care of it properly from now on. If not, report it 😉
no0dles130 31 points 1y ago
Idk about your market but I have a technician that comes in every three months that gets it clean but we do it during clean plays as well.
ittybittybakerkitty 7 points 1y ago
I have never seen the tech but we do the machine monthly and bins daily
board-certified 26 points 1y ago
my stores ice machine is so clean….cuz we follow the directions and schedule during clean play. the resources are already there, so i don’t know what to tell you other than to look in the store resources app.
Seriously_jst_4real 3 points 1y ago
Our store's bin has the face bolted down with recessed bolts. We don't have the tools to take the face off to clean it. Funnily enough we have the green cleaner though....
board-certified 4 points 1y ago
sneak and submit a ticket through my daily on the ipad
Comfortable-Plane944 16 points 1y ago
Lol work at a local restaurant 😂😂
anonbiotch01 [OP] 10 points 1y ago
Bro don't say that to me I'm so scared 😭😭😭😭
mulberrybby 2 points 1y ago
Starbucks has a deep clean day every week, I never once saw the ice bin at a restaurant get cleaned, they don’t have a standard
liansu_ 9 points 1y ago
Our on-bar ice bins get taken down and cleaned daily, and our ice machine gets cleaned every clean play. If stores followed regular protocols about cleanliness none of this would be an issue for anyone sadly
esaeklsg 12 points 1y ago
All the stores I worked at when I was a partner, desire to follow protocols and cleanliness at the barista / SS level was countered by understaffing and lack of time.
ThatBichAlex 1 points 1y ago
The ice machine is only cleaned one a month for clean play. You only clean the coils weekly. Ice bins should be wiped down daily, cleaned weekly.
persona-2 5 points 1y ago
The big one in the back? We clean it monthly and I’ve never seen mold. That’s super gross.
Emarie2200 4 points 1y ago
Monthly?! My store cleans it every Thursday night for clean play 😭
persona-2 1 points 1y ago
The deep clean chemicals are supposed to be done monthly. You wipe it down weekly.
Emarie2200 1 points 1y ago
I’m not there for clean play, so I have no clue what they do. I just know they deep clean everything including the ice bin on Thursdays.
happymasquerade 4 points 1y ago
I feel so lucky to work at a store where cleaning is taken seriously. We wash our ice bins every single day. Seriously, I gripe about the amount of work I do as a closing SSV but stuff like this puts it in perspective
Buttafly_360 3 points 1y ago
We juss cleaned our entire ICE Machine during clean play..wait y'all don't clean y'all ice bins every day?
Pouf_The_Butterfly 3 points 1y ago
These comments are so wierd to me, at my store if we get anything in any of the ice bins they have to be taken out and cleaned immediately, the big ice machine is cleaned pretty often too 😬
anonbiotch01 [OP] 3 points 1y ago
Sorry i should've specified, it was the big ice maker. And yeah i don't know if it was cleaned before i opened it up. It sucks that before i became a shift that clean plays weren't in place. :/
felinefireghost 3 points 1y ago
I never get ice.. from my store or any other establishment. I know too much :(
BellaJ22 2 points 1y ago
Why dont you just report the store ? Or tell your DM? Call, the health department. Anything is better than doing nothing about it.
death2capitalism2 2 points 1y ago
we also found what seemed like black mold on the sides of our ice bin. This is what happens when you cut labor to pad your CEO’s already fat paycheck, corporate 🤪
marvelmanda 2 points 1y ago
We literally clean ours every couple hours with hot af water so it doesn’t mold
awkward_cat_man_ 1 points 1y ago
same thing happened at my store. we haven’t had a clean play since ive been here. ….ive been here since september. our clean play was canceled due to unknown reasons
gemi-high 1 points 1y ago
the ice bin ideally needs cleaned twice a day, but definitely once at night every day. takes me like 5 minutes to get all the mold off. because of all the water its very very hard for there to not be mold, but daily cleaning makes it much better.
gemi-high 1 points 1y ago
if youre talking about the machine itself, thats insane that its moldy, clean play definitely covers it
breadcat3 1 points 1y ago
u didn’t sign up to be cleaning ice bins???
Cactusraccoon 1 points 1y ago
Had to get in the ice maker once to clean it disgusting Dk how we passed inspection
tittywhipp 1 points 1y ago
If it makes you feel any better....my last store had mold in the ice machine!!!!! And when I asked the last time it was cleaned for clean play the response was ..."what's clean play" and oh we haven't cleaned this since we got it.... 😭🤮
sldvorak19 1 points 1y ago
Same thing is happening at my store lol manager hasn’t scheduled a clean play in about 3 months and before that it was over a year since we had one… gross.
PerspectiveCapable98 1 points 1y ago
Clean play??
starjamespma 1 points 1y ago
once there was mold in our frap roast pump
BothWeb1004 1 points 1y ago
HOW
starjamespma 1 points 1y ago
I DO NOT KNOW BUT IT WAS DISTRESSING
animeilove1219 1 points 1y ago
At least they said to clean it.I had a manager once he said it was fine I don’t need to worry about it we don’t have time to clean it.
secretbox-22 1 points 1y ago
HAHA this ain’t new. There’s always pink mold because of the singular monthly cleaning.

Edit: It adds flavor
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scorpioxqueeeenn 1 points 1y ago
this is so common
LimpSpread9688 1 points 1y ago
We clean ours AT LEAST once a month! Like, completely emptying it out and sanitizing the whole thing according to the manual. It’s part of clean play!!!
Specialist_Salt_507 1 points 1y ago
Don’t get fountain sodas from gas stations lol
galaxydisco17 1 points 1y ago
Sadly that happens a lot at my store, I appears to be the only one that cares, but I'm allergic to mold so I can't clean it. Just smelling it upsets my stomach.
bisexualgirlboss 1 points 1y ago
it’s weird I come across this because my shift last night, she was doing the pull and there was a dead cockroach on one of the pastry trays…. she texted my SM and never got anything back..
caspi3 1 points 1y ago
My store deep cleans our bins once a week
Super-Mycologist-781 1 points 1y ago
Cutsie lil moldy freinds
Responsible_Snow7109 1 points 1y ago
I cant even begin to tell u how many times ive found black mold inside of the ice cubes when i was in the middle of making a customers drink and i go show it to my manager and she goes "throw that ice out and just rinse the ice scooper". Idk if she meant rinse it thru the hobart or just under some sink water but ice showed it to her on so many different occasions and to my shift and none of em did anything about it
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