Steaming and shaking drinks that don't come shaken need to have the same charge. Stirring doesn't really bother me, probably because it's one of those early extra labor modifiers that slips past my petty-meter because almost no one requests stirred when they could make us shake!

If someone wants milk steamed in their coffee then they getting charged a misto

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lucky😭 the customers dont even read the menu. they just come up to the register and ask what we have🧍🏽‍♀️

Same thing happened to me today with someone’s shaken espresso! She was like “idk if I hit this by accident or what but ….I’m sorry I didn’t want it blended” I was happy to remake it because I was like “honestly I’m so glad cuz a blended shaken espresso is an abomination”

Yes we do but in the summer 2 training were going to start charging 50 cents for those that want the cup lined with caramel drizzle too

Vanilla coffee frapp with caramel drizzle, i guess??

Okay then if it was about labor they can also give us a raise 🤷‍♂️ why should the customer pay extra for labor when starbucks isn't willing to

Every licensed store I've been to has that problem. I used to work at one

The $1 used in many Starbucks locations works at 120 volts & 15 amps or 1.8 kiloWatts. Each blend takes 10 seconds (I think?) which gives us 0.3 kWh of energy every usage.

Hawaii $1 the US with an absurd average residential price of electricity of ¢34.3 per kWh. That's 0.083 cents every use.

Maybe maintenance costs are the justification? Vitamix $1 less than 2% of their products under warranty last less than 10 years. The $1,199 blender cost divided up by, idk, 5 uses a day for that time doesn't even break 7 cents per blend.

Labor costs? Store managers in New York $1 earn $52,808 yearly salary, which, assuming a 40 hour week, is $26.40 an hour and 7.3 cents per ten second blending.

These absurdly generous estimates tell us that blending a drink costs no more than 14 cents. Every blend modification is more than 36 free cents in our owner's pockets. That may not sound like a lot but even just selling one per store (of which there are $1!) nets them over a million bucks. Every time.

A 1400 watts blender uses 1.4 kWh of energy for an hour a usage. That costs and average of 19 cents in the US. That is not a valid excuse to raise the price of the drink as it takes less than 30 seconds to blend something.