Is someone else using your numbers? I’d ask the SM for how much it thinks you’re marking out, if they didn’t tell you.

That is complete bullshit even the strictest standards say you’re entitled to one before, one during, and one after your shift. Theoretically you should be entitled one per break you take and one 30 minutes before and 30 minutes after

crazy how we push out hundreds of drinks a shift that each cost about half of our hourly wage yet they get mad at us for marking out “too many drinks”? i will make and take as many drinks as i want i do not care.

You get 15’s?! We only get 10’s :(

It isn’t stated as unlimited nor does it stipulate a specific number. Here’s what it says…

Perks for Partners
Free Food Item and Beverages While Working
A store partner may consume—free of charge—one food item and any coffee, tea or blended beverages while on break during the partner’s scheduled shift or during the 30 minutes prior to or after the partner’s scheduled shift. The food benefit of one item per shift includes bakery, breakfast sandwiches, oatmeal and lunch items such as bistro boxes, salads and sandwiches.
The store partner food and beverage benefit is available at the store in which the partner is working for the partner’s personal consumption only; partners may not
give away their partner food items or beverages to any other individuals. A partner may not receive more than one free beverage at a time, and may not order multiple free beverages after the shift ends. The partner beverage may not be consumed while the partner is actually working, but only while on a rest or meal break. Additionally, partners are required to wait in line with other customers to receive their partner food items or beverages, and another partner should ring out each partner’s item(s).”
I think it’s BS that your are being told you are marking out too much. I’d definitely go with the suggestion another commenter made and check how many the SM is saying you are doing.

lmaooo i be taking home like 4-5 drinks (mostly the tea bc it gets wasted anyway) and nobody has said anything yet 🤐

I was told you get one drink 30 minutes before your shift, 30 minutes after, 1 bag of the coffee beans per week, and 7 breakfast sandwich stuff a week (my first day today lol)

That’s not even a lot of drinks.

im not sure how much they let us do anymore, but i know about a month ago in the weekly update they said you can look up all of your mark outs on the pos, you just have to be assigned to the till

I literally make as many quad flat whites as I can drink per shift. My highest was five during one shift. My fellow partners have a joke of how many shots I've consumed during the day(because I can't drink anything without a quad in it lol).

No one has ever said anything. And if they do, I'll laugh as I sip my delicious beverage.

Just make em and don't even bother marking them out. That's what I do.

Wait y’all actually mark out your drinks?

There's not a hard limit re: # of drinks. There's just regulations around how many drinks at a time, when you can drink it and who may drink it.

My store doesn’t care and we will try and makeup drinks to try new recipes.

Technically it’s as many drinks as you can CONSUME. Soooo y’know.

Sometimes I’ll start my 30 with lemonade then decide I want caffeine and get something else afterwards.

I got reprimanded once because I was only marking out one or two drinks a week. They thought I just wasn’t marking them out and didn’t believe me when I said I mostly drink water. :-)

Meanwhile, my SM is on us for not marking out our drink and making sure everyone is.
Almost everyone in my store gets at least 2 drinks a shift.

Um… I thought we could only have 1 free drink per shift. 😭😭😭😭

you get 3 drinks per shift. 7 food items per week and only used on days you work.

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I typically had like 4 or 5 drinks per shift! Mind you I only ever didn't finish one and had to dump it if it got too busy for me to duck into the back to take a sip and the drink sat too long (like several hours) and was no longer even remotely palatable. Maybe one every 3 or 4 shifts got partially tossed. But I don't think they're supposed to limit that beyond not marking out more than one in... I think it's 30 minutes? It's a partner benefit. They don't stipulate what you can or can't do with the drinks after you mark them out. If you feel the need to make yourself a trenta refresher and immediately dump it down the drain every morning, that's your prerogative!

I mark out 4 in a day at times wth 😂
Edit to add: the rule used to be 6 drink mark outs per day in the US a few years ago when I first got hired on. It was meant to be 1 before your shift and if you worked a full 8hrs then #2 for your 1st 10, #3 for your lunch, #4 for your 2nd 10 and #5 for the end of your shift and I guess an extra just in case you needed it. I believe the policy now doesn't state a specific limitation on quantity, only limitation now is you can only have 1 marked out drink at a time so if you haven't finished your drink you cant go and mark out another one on your way home. But some SMs might still let you as long as you marked out 1 during your shift and the other one at the end of your shift.

Basically you get 5 free drinks in an 8 hour shift

15??? We only get 10s!!! Austin, Texas.