tbh i don’t see the same, they’re always so outdated. only licensed store i’ll go to is the one on my school campus and i’ll never forget watching the barista make a trenta frappucino then ask “where are the trenta dome lids?”. i’m sure some are run much better than others but they seem to be an afterthought by the company they’re actually run by, so tbh i don’t really view the same as actual stores

I use to be the team lead at a Target starbucks and never felt like a Starbucks' partner. It's also hard to feel like part of the Target team, since you're stuck behind the counter.
I had a lot of people that came to my store to fix what the corporate down the street messed up. It seems to come down the Starbucks district manager in charge. Ours was VERY big on making sure we were providing the starbucks experience. When I opened my store a SM came and trained us for almost a month. We followed starbucks standards. When I bounced over to corporate starbucks, I was literally thrown on bar my first day after answering how to make whip cream and a question about steaming milk.
My store was constantly busy cause we were technically the only Starbucks in town (next town was like half a mile down the road) and I was often by myself. So no matter how much busier corporate is, noting being alone to do it all for hours is a relief.

I’m pretty sure target baristas get more pay now lmao

i kinda don’t see them the same because we had someone transfer from a tarbucks and she’s totally lost. we had to completely retrain her so it wasn’t like a “transfer” from a different store she was a complete new hire

As someone who works in a license store, I can feel the segregation from a corporate store and us license stores. for one, they won't hire any of us license stores because they think we are "outdated". my store has almost everything a corporate location has except a few items like paninis. When corporate workers come to us, they like to treat us like we're idiots, had a girl tell me that I was a newbie and heard call me an idiot because she couldn't use her employee discount to buy some Tumblr cup even though I explained that we aren't the same and we didn't take employee discount.

We will hire corporate people but a few turned down because we wouldn't give them over 40 hours (I don't even think corporate starbucks even has over 40 hour shifts) and the one hiree we did take, she was a deer in headlights. I think she even said the corporate one treated her different and she wanted to be in a better environment. I think our SM does above and beyond to make us feel like partners since when I covered other shifts at other license stores, most were super outdated and ran whacky, only one was way better (it was the one I was trained at. Still love covering there and keeping in touch with them).

as a used-to-be krobucks barista i just feel sad :( like that shit is rough😭💀

The way I view licensed stores is that it’s messed up that you don’t get the perks and benefits that we do >_< I don’t understand it