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Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind

Full History - 2022 - 08 - 23 - ID#wvrx04
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“I come here every morning and order the same thing every single day! you should know my drink by now!” (self.starbucksbaristas)
submitted by Missjaneausten
Lady I could not give any more f**ks. You could be my mother in law, my brother or my sister’s best friend’s dog, we get a million different orders every single day, and I don’t have a single reason to remember yours unless you’re extremely kind, funny, or an absolute b***h.

Just politely say your drink is incorrect and we’ll remake it.

We’re not robots or computers.

Human error exists.

Get off your f**king high horse and move on with your day.
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RyusuiJL 29 points 10m ago
I guess it depends on the location. Like we're a fairly busy store, but I would gather less busy than most. Highest peaks have been mid-high 60 halfs. Typical is high 40s to high 50s. But most of our baristas know just about all our regulars and their usual drinks. Although given, most of them aren't that complicated, either.

Our regulars drinks are things like a Grande black Pike in a Venti cup, Grande Dark in a Venti cup with 1 shot and 2 Splenda, Venti iced Chai and a Venti water, Venti Mocha Frap with Mocha Drizzle.

The most complicated usuals are things like a Grande Flat White with 3 honey and double cup, Venti White Mocha Frap with Vanilla and Caramel Drizzle, or Venti Iced Coffee with a shot and 6 Splenda and cream. No stupid TikTok shit.

I take that back. There are a select few who have like a 6 or so modification order. But they're in less numbers than the easier regulars.
turnipsarerotting 21 points 10m ago
The only regulars I remember have pretty easy orders, things like venti black cold brew, doppio with 2 raw sugars and iced americano with 5 pumps mocha. They’re also pretty nice which helps me remember them
nonogender 1 points 10m ago
tbh i remember a lot of my regulars' orders but it's probably bc they come in every single day and i worked there for a year. if it's a regular who A) doesnt come in every day or B) you havent seen that regular enough to remember them, then it makes no sense that you'd remember them.
short_4_furnace 44 points 10m ago
That's the bittersweetness of having regulars. They're really nice (for the most part) until you don't have something or their drink is made wrong. Like, we have this lady that comes in almost everyday for a mocha frap with 1 pump of the roast and two of the base and EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. she gets it remade at least twice. More than once we didn't have coffee base for her drink so it was a little off and we even explained this to her ! Yet she still complained. There's just no winning sometimes.
lcvefoolish 7 points 10m ago
we have a regular who gets a super specific drink that’s not complicated but once she came to the drive thru like five minutes after we opened and her drink got messed up twice and she called my 19 year old shift lead a bitch and screamed at my coworkers then ghosted for like…a few weeks but now she comes every day and she’s so passive aggressively friendly and overly nice she scares us LMAO
cooterbrows 6 points 10m ago
we have a regular whom i actually like, but i’ll never forget how hard he vibe checked me my first ever day. i ofc had no idea that they didn’t charge him full price. when i rang him up correctly and told him “that’ll be 5.26!” he said “no it won’t” 💀
ladysingtheblues 30 points 10m ago
This one lady in drive thru was like "it's Brianna" and I'm like hi, what can we get for you and she's like "wow you don't remember" and orders a complicated drink with this super condescending attitude. Stg I'd never seen that person or that order before in my life
Electrical_Metal_106 12 points 10m ago
Brianna needs to make a mobile order next time lol!
capsule_of_anxiety1 5 points 10m ago
I used to work at the busiest corporate store in my district and when in DT had this one lady who’d always drive up to the box and say, “It’s Tanya” then zoom off to the window and expect us to know her drink just based off that. She’d always change up the way she liked her drink tho so that made it confusing. She once held up our drive thru for about 10 minutes having to remake her drink again and decided to berate us and call us incompetent. Now she comes to the licensed store I work at so that’s fun 😒
jazzysoranio 20 points 10m ago
Ma’am. You are one transaction in an assembly line of transactions a thousand transactions long. In a store that is a revolving door of baristas.
mrcupcake18 18 points 10m ago
Every time this happens it’s always the people that have never come in my store and either wanna make a big deal out of the mistake or don’t wanna admit THEY made a mistake. Or it’s the regulars that always come in but I never interact with and get all huffy because this is the first interaction we’ve had and I don’t know their order. Like dude just tell me you’re stupid drink and stop making this interaction that you clearly hate longer 😂
dnims24 17 points 10m ago
I had a man in drive thru last night order “the usual” but then a second later said just kidding and told me his order. We laughed it off
yirium 2 points 10m ago
That’s actually pretty funny
Assiqtaq 10 points 10m ago
On a side note, this is exactly one way you can ensure I never forget you. Not a way you want me to remember, but still.
BoatAccomplished8229 8 points 10m ago
beautifully said
Bluebilledduck 7 points 10m ago
We have one regular who just pulls up and says his name... A lot of new people dont know his order and those of us who do often pretend not to because he is such a jerk. We told him we have new people and he needs to start saying his order but he refuses.
aee78 5 points 10m ago
Is it something common?? Start asking which one he is. That always gets them.
WingsofFlight 6 points 10m ago
This. I struggle to put names to faces, it is frustrating. And when regulars come in and I don't remember? Some of them get so angry. I always ask what they like unless they want to add to the order or edit a drink. I serve many people everyday, you are not special because you come in everyday. Sorry if that sounds rude but I hate the attitude of it.
Intelligent-Hunt-906 6 points 10m ago
Wow sometimes my Reddit barista community makes me feel more human for feeling the ways I feel sometimes!!!! We have multiple people who do this but when I offer a SSV or SM it’s a neverminddddd!!! Like bro do I take your order every time?? Then how you expect me to know? Literally happened last week at my store
Garrickrelentless 6 points 10m ago
Sister's best friend's dog gets a pup cup.
capsule_of_anxiety1 5 points 10m ago
I work in a licensed store within a popular grocery store chain and whenever one of my grocery coworkers come up they expect me to remember their order (it’s always guys lol). And my mentality is this, like bro I’ve barely been working here a month I know I used to work at a corporate store, but I also had a baby and my memory isn’t what it once was lol
Necessary_Low939 5 points 10m ago
Best comeback would be: I just work here 😐
ladyelenawf 5 points 10m ago
>Get off your f**king high horse and ~~move on with your day.~~

use the app if you want someone to remember your shit for you.
MrsOceanGrown 4 points 10m ago
Damn.. we have a regular that comes every single day and she orders her modified frapp the same way, nice and paced out for us, and never expects us to remember it. I love it! Lol. We have another customer who says her name and she wants her “special iced”. She doesn’t come anymore but if ever there was a partner that didn’t know it, the customer would kindly say it for them no issue. I wish people would just be HUMAN
EliNotEllie 3 points 10m ago
I eagerly await the day a customer insists that I should remember their name and order because they come in every day, so I can cover my name tag and demand they tell me what my name is. After all, if I take their order every day they should remember it by now, right?!
EggForLife69 2 points 10m ago
inb4 they get it right
fhdurham11 2 points 10m ago
Well, you will remember now because she sounds like a complete b*th
lcvefoolish 2 points 10m ago
i’m pretty good at remembering people’s drinks and i have a coworker who remember EVERYONE’s drink but it’s truly unhinged to EXPECT someone to remember that information 😭 also it’s kind of weird how most people always get the same thing every single day, even before i worked at starbucks i would have multiple go-to drinks and go through phases bc there are ten million things on the menu
ladycali87 1 points 10m ago
I only remembered like two or three customers orders but only because our sm knew one couple, they came in like everyday and barely changed it up and always told us if they were switching it up.
The others I ended up getting to know pretty well and we’re always a joy to talk to
Barda2023 1 points 10m ago
"maybe stop coming in here every morning"


You ain't going to lose your job in this economy friends
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