Since always?

heard it all before...


late 90s: Since when did the caramel macchiato get one less pump of vanilla?
early 2000s: Since when did the hot chai latte come with water?
mid 2000s: Since when did we NOT cut the tops of the caramel bottles?
Late 2000s: Since when did we add classic to the green tea frappuccino?
2010s: Since when did we add water to the matcha lemonade?


Thank you "other store" for always making drinks wrong so it looks like we don't know what we're doing when we do it right.

Turns out it’s a very common misconception since the regular special cold brews have vanilla syrup

Literally always

It’s one of those type of questions where since when did the caffe vanilla Frappuccino get vanilla bean powder instead of vanilla syrup?! Back in the day, it didn’t get vanilla bean powder

Always lol

Always

always lol

This is a product of Starbucks just having way too many recipes for us to keep track of. Believe me, you’re one of probably thousands of baristas that have been making it with syrup in it just because there’s way too many recipes to try to memorize. It wasn’t such an issue 10 years ago when we had a lot of recipes but they were all just variations on a standard core recipe. Now we just have a couple hundred individual recipes that are all completely unique so if you don’t know it you just don’t know it and there’s no figuring it out. Yes, you should be referencing the recipe cards, but in a world where we get yelled at if we stop making drinks for five seconds who is gonna stop to look for a recipe. And it’s also understandable that you wouldn’t even have reason to think you’re making it wrong in the first place because unless you already know, it just sounds like it would get syrup in it.

don’t worry i didn’t figure that out until like 3 months after being hired and i was on register and someone asked what’s in it :’)