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Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind

Full History - 2022 - 06 - 18 - ID#vfa7uf
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happy saturday y’all, guess what people still ordered (reddit.com)
submitted by j_delightful
girlwholikesthestars 266 points 1y ago
Bruh why are you not closed lol
j_delightful [OP] 229 points 1y ago
literally couldn’t tell you, i just walked in maybe 15 minutes ago. at least mobiles are turned off??
_squintyemonster 68 points 1y ago
Starbies: Both Espresso machines are down

Yes, let me turn off mobile orders for you...


\*le sighs\*
ConfusedFey 18 points 1y ago
My DM wouldn't even turn mobiles off for us I can tell you that
demigirlhailee 8 points 1y ago
i’m relatively confident there's not a way to markout espresso on mobiles, so since that's such a large portion of drinks having to do refunds/remakes for nearly every order would be ridiculous, even by DM standards
drowninginristretto 4 points 1y ago
There is a way… but it’s weird and doesn’t always work. You’ve gotta go to the beans tab of item availability and mark out the 6 different espresso skus, both retail and behind the bar.
It’s a pain in the booty but a ssv at my old store used to do it when there were too many call offs and our boss wouldn’t turn off mop
_lanalana_ 151 points 1y ago
One time my store had no water and we were still open. We literally couldn’t make *anything* but our sm and dm didnt care
jjd_yo 131 points 1y ago
Almost certain that’s illegal
_lanalana_ 74 points 1y ago
Technically the water was running so we could wash hands and things but the filter was replaced wrong so it tasted like salt. We couldn’t serve anything and people got so mad at us
DanksterBoy 30 points 1y ago
Honestly I can’t even blame the customers on this one lmao, like surely that can’t be profitable and is just a huge wast of money and everyone’s time
OrderedMyLaughOnEbay 23 points 1y ago
Not having water to serve while still open is illegal though. Either your DM or SM didn’t pass food handler manager training
zewave_ 32 points 1y ago
Yeah yikes. you literaly cant wash your hands??? Like if you go to the restroom on your break ur gonna contaminate and get so many sick 🤢
blackboynxtdoor 18 points 1y ago
Definitely illegal!! One time the business next to hours was having work done so they had to shut the water down in the building. And we had to close for about 45 minutes until they finished and the water cut back on.
BreannaLyne 17 points 1y ago
One time my city had a boil water watch so it was literally 4 of us just sitting in the cafe telling people they could get anything from the RTE or a pastry still in plastic, but we can't warm it.

But there was this one lady who was mad at us cause we couldn't point her in the direction of a different Starbucks. She found one outside the city limits and came back to tells us about it.
krym32zamoon 4 points 1y ago
That's illegal!
nicolelynnejones 66 points 1y ago
we’ve had no espresso before and still stayed open too. really puts into perspective how many people don’t know what espresso is or what drinks it goes into
PhantomsAria 46 points 1y ago
Because screw us that's why. My machine is old and shit and goes down once a month, usually for 2 weeks, and we just have to upsell Fraps. Its so stupid.

Also "BuT mOcHaS wErEnT ON tHe lIsT?"
molwalk 18 points 1y ago
Some Starbucks don't close for ANYTHING.
burntsriracha 13 points 1y ago
my old manager made us stay open when we had no espresso, sooo many cafe mistos that day😅
settledupon 105 points 1y ago
I love that frappichinos aren’t even on the list yet i would guess they still tried to order fraps all day
j_delightful [OP] 83 points 1y ago
yeah we did that on purpose
taylortherod 36 points 1y ago
“Oh whoops silly me guess I forgot to write that down hahaha”
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Elliotisnotokay 3 points 1y ago
Well I mean most fraps don't have espresso
DeadDear 3 points 1y ago
They can make them but they are more of a pain so they didn’t write it on the list
settledupon 1 points 11m ago
Next picture dude.
MrMigraine72 83 points 1y ago
And I'm sure they also told you "YoU ShOulD bE CloSEd" like yeah man, I agree
BreannaLyne 21 points 1y ago
But when you're trying to close and the get pissy about that too.

There is no winning.
PiscesQueen24 71 points 1y ago
I peeped the fraps not being on the list LOL I felt that .
Brgnbo 68 points 1y ago
Love that you guys specified hot or iced because people will literally be like “oh you can’t make a hot latte? Ok I’ll get an iced one” like . I said I can’t make a latte. Period.
kadulee 9 points 1y ago
people are so slow sometimes 😭😭😭
Candid_Accident_ 38 points 1y ago
Although none of them are supposed to have apostrophes, I really wanna know why the flat white is the only one without one. 😂
j_delightful [OP] 21 points 1y ago
i wish i could tell you the signs were made before i got there this afternoon 😭
crunchycookie28 10 points 1y ago
same omg
Tiny-Leopard-8809 26 points 1y ago
Get ready for the WeLl WhAt Do YoU HaVe coming your way 🤣 I wish this would happen to me at my store.
ilovelimes333 5 points 1y ago
LMFAO WE GET THAT A LOT. our store is always running out of stuff & ppl are always like "WELL...what DO u have!?" BUAHAHA😩 so annoying
madydt 23 points 1y ago
ok but why are there apostrophes?
j_delightful [OP] 7 points 1y ago
i dunno 😭 i didn’t make the signs
RaidiationHound 18 points 1y ago
Dude I was would start steaming frap roast if people were that annoying /s
XerauxTolerance 13 points 1y ago
What's with the apostrophes?
j_delightful [OP] 5 points 1y ago
i have no idea, didn’t make the sign myself /:
RayBun4 11 points 1y ago
That's happened to me before, in the winter too so we upselled the heck out of mistos.
interyx 10 points 1y ago
Now, I can see here it says you don't have espresso, but can I get a white mocha?
taylortherod 10 points 1y ago
This happened a lot when I worked at a licensed store last fall. At least one out of every 5 customers would say “okay can I get a pumpkin spice latte?
ilovelimes333 3 points 1y ago
i bet those customers were probably like "oh that has espresso in it too? =o " ... 👁👄👁
srirachawhale 9 points 1y ago
My manager doesn’t even allow us to put up handwritten signs
j_delightful [OP] 7 points 1y ago
my manager is on vacation, but she would have approved it anyways, she’s pretty chill
srirachawhale 5 points 1y ago
My manager says it looks too trashy “like a gas station”
ruiz1313 8 points 1y ago
I hate that starbucks thinks like that. Like no one cares about that. signs should be for everyone’s convenience. Just like majority of customers don’t care about “the customer connection” but starbucks is obsessed with it.
srirachawhale 4 points 1y ago
It’s genuinely irritating. We write a sign and put it up, my manager gets pissed. We don’t put up a sign, the customers get pissed. There’s just no winning
KableKyle 8 points 1y ago
Your first mistake was assuming they’d read lol
Significant_Sound_17 8 points 1y ago
When our espresso machines were down we weren’t allowed to put up ANY signage saying that they were down because it wasn’t to Starbucks “standard”. WORSE DAY OF MY LIFE…. Customers were VERY upset understandable cause they’d wait in line for like 10+min only to discover that they couldn’t get what they wanted!
Responsible_Snow7109 7 points 1y ago
Lmao at the fact that u guys had to simplify it down that much. I love it 🤣
blueteas 6 points 1y ago
"ok can you make a mocha"
NeonNightlights 5 points 1y ago
We’ve had a couple of times in my time at Starbucks where the entire city was put on boil notice, meaning we couldn’t serve ANYTHING because it all involved water/using water to wash dishes and equipment (also the espresso machines and brewers don’t reach a rolling boil for the proper time to make the water safe). We’d have to tell people we could not serve ANY beverages and the number of times people would hear that and be like ‘ok cool I’ll take a latte then’ was ridiculous.

Like bro that’s a beverage idk what to tell you. 😭
pastelrose7 5 points 1y ago
I don’t even think our DM would let us put up a sign
j_delightful [OP] 4 points 1y ago
tbh i don’t even think she knew, she didn’t come by
bigheftyhooker 5 points 1y ago
found ya
j_delightful [OP] 4 points 1y ago
ma’am i miss you ):
EyesOpenedWide31 5 points 1y ago
UNIONIZE!!
drinkliquidclocks 4 points 1y ago
Damn. Did your machines both break or you only have one?! When my store couldn’t get esp beans we just used pike lmao that has to be so annoying
j_delightful [OP] 6 points 1y ago
both of them were down: the shots were watery and only pulled after a handful of times, and one of the machines wouldn’t drain
drinkliquidclocks 2 points 1y ago
Dang, my store had to close today because none of our drains were draining 🥵
Jfostr0 3 points 1y ago
How’s your ice machine? Ours has been busted for about 2 or 3 weeks now and we’ve had to get ice from other stores/just go buy it multiples time a day every day recently. This was AFTER two service guys because the first one thought nothing was wrong. It’s always a myriad of things at Strugglebucks
j_delightful [OP] 1 points 1y ago
ice machine is terrible. we’ve also had a ton of service guys come out, but they keep saying nothing is wrong, so we constantly have to get ice from the convenience store next to us, usually twice a day.
Intelligent-Hunt-906 3 points 1y ago
“We can make”

Frappes who? 🤣
Snowbunny_02 3 points 1y ago
And this is why I quit
RebekahR84 3 points 1y ago
Ugh why the apostrophes?!
Cultural-Ad1167 3 points 1y ago
One day our ovens and 1/2 mastrenas weren’t working and we were still expected to have DT, delivery, Cafe, and DT open 🥴
thewizardsblizzard 3 points 1y ago
Do you have Pike's Place? I'm pretty sure that's the standard espresso substitute
j_delightful [OP] 5 points 1y ago
we do, but our machines were broken
thewizardsblizzard 4 points 1y ago
Op! Well that's rough...
livingfortheliquid 2 points 1y ago
"what about mochas?" /s
j_delightful [OP] 2 points 1y ago
okay an edit to answer repeat questions ig:

it’s not that we ran out of espresso. both of our mastrena ii’s were broken; both of them were pulling watery, inconsistent shots, and one of them wouldn’t drain at all. they had been giving us issues since thursday, but they didn’t come to fix it until around noon on saturday.

i didn’t make the signs, y’all. 😭 i don’t know why the apostrophes were there, i didn’t make it. i showed up and all the signs were there.

we didn’t list frappuccinos on purpose, we didn’t want to encourage them.

and yes, our dm let us turn mobiles off, but because we could sell hot coffee and refreshers and cold brew, we had to remain open.
Kooky_Quarter_7220 2 points 1y ago
how is a coffee shop gonna stay open, with no coffee 🧍🏽‍♀️
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darkwolf523 1 points 1y ago
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Punk_ass_giant3 -2 points 1y ago
Did you know u can make an iced Cappuccino? Just put the milk of choice in the foam blender and there u go pour it with ur shots and add ice.
j_delightful [OP] 1 points 1y ago
i mean yes you can but they also took away the button for it so it’s not ~technically~ on the menu anymore
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