Honey citrus mint, iced matchas/London fogs

everyone else will say frappuccino and while i agree, i want to be different today so my second least favorite drink to make is anything matcha because i get messy and i think it smells bad.

any cold foam with something in it. the pumpkin cold foam, chocolate cold foam, and ESPECIALLY the salted caramel cold foam. you got me fucked up if you think i want to run a marathon do a little dance and spin around 5 times to make one drink.

Iced London fog

Water.
* my SM started keeping venti waters in the DT fridge to save everyone time.

tbh shaken espressos. i feel like this might be unpopular but they annoy me

i honestly dont mind Frappuccinos but i hate hate hate iced matchas for some reason. idk why but they always ruin my flow

Any refresher or iced tea. I can’t sequence them and it absolutely ruins my whole flow. I don’t mind shaken espressos, fraps, iced or hot matchas or anything. I will admit I get a little upset when I pull a cold brew or iced coffee because I find it hard to put those into my sequencing as well but they’re easier to work in than a damn refresher. I remember in the training that it says there’s “no way to sequence them” anyway so just do your best to put them in the mix lol. They throw my flow off and of all things to get rid of I would choose those over fraps

iced cappuccino. What a PITA!! blend the milk, put the ice in the cup, pour the shots with EXACTLY 4 ice cubes, spend a good 30 seconds shoogling the foam over the ice.... Ugh. TAKE IT OFF THE DAMN MENU

Specifically the caramel ribbon crunch frap because it's layered and the pump is a whole work out lol.

I don't mind other fraps in general.

And I also dislike matcha drinks only because matcha powder gets stuck onto pitchers and shakers.

When people try to be cheap and order shots of espresso iced, with syrups, extra cream, and cold foam instead of a latte with cold foam.

MATCHAMATCHAMATCHA DEAR GOD. I swear in 10-15 years I’m going to receive compensation for a disease called “green lung” and I’ll hear about it on an infomercial

HONEY CITRUS MINT TEA, no honey blend sub honey packets. Makes me want to pass away during peak.

During peak I hate nitros and cold brews because the tap is kind of slow and I’m not confident enough to do something else while it’s filling, especially with so many partners rushing about

customized fraps, regular fraps are whatever bc they have a routine, but customized fraps have different milks, different syrups and added shots that make the frap so WATERY EVEN IF I ADD MORE ICE

Iced matchas

Drinks that are extremely specific" it has to be 180 degrees, no foam, almond milk, 5 pumps mocha, 6 pumps peppermint, 6 shots, 2 blonde the rest normal, no whip, salted Carmel cold foam, Carmel drizzle around the cup and on top, etc". I have to keep checking the sticker and always either mess something up or forget something. It's exhausting!

Refreshers on a hot day since they make me feel sticky.

frappuccinos. the sound just gives me all these sensory problems, but i can manage to get through them lol

trenta refreshers fuel me with hate bc the shaker is so full that u arent even shaking it correctly and venti caramel crunch/mocha crumble fraps because its harder to put the whip cream bc the cup is so long (very specific things i know)

The Moon Drink ?(iced chai oat milk latte with matcha). Idk how long that TikTok drink was around but it existed.

It didn’t taste terrible ;HOWEVER, my stomach did gave an immediate warning to stop while I was ahead lol.

Mine was honestly the matcha because it never came off of the shaker.

Anything that uses the chocolate malt powder bc of the smell 🙃

Matcha. Specifically iced matcha. It stinks, it’s messy, it foams so much in the shaker. Hate it.

Frappuccino’s. Any. Ever. Fuck them.

trenta shaken drinks and salted caramel cbs. trentas never feel shaken correctly because it barely fits in the shaker

Anything with cold foam. It ruins the whole sequence in bar.

iced matcha

Frappuccinos, but specifically ones with a mocha drizzle, because we don’t keep mocha at our cold bar so I have to bring my carefully-constructed frappuccino over to hot bar and hope things don’t start overflowing and I don’t make a mess on hot bar only to leave it there and go back to cold drinks

Matcha 100%

iced london fog or anything malt

Any frap

pink drink with heavy cream and three scoops of vanilla bean powder. that shit is just plain nasty

Gonna go against the grain and say if you haven't even started yet, try not to focus on what things people don't like about the job yet. You'll have plenty of time to get jaded with the position and daily bs to handle and deal with.

For me, those first few months were some of the best tbh. Have fun!

The Mocha Cookie Crumble Frap and the Caramel Ribbon Crunch Frap.

Extra work, sticky and overflow potential with whipped cream on top and the bottom. The other fraps I know ppl hate but I can tolerate better.

Matcha. Not only is it already messy, but the powder can make it harder to get a good seal on the shaker so it's exploded all over me at least three times. I've gotten matcha in my ears, on my contact lenses, and down my crew neck T shirt. It's *everywhere*

Any shaken espressos. I’d rather make frappuchinos all day long

Iced matcha and honey citrus mint tea

Any drink that a customer has to shove their phone in my face to order 🤬

I hate making venti shaken espressos and iced americanos, or any other drink that require 3+ shots, specifically on drive bar during peak. The shots just take too damn long to pull

Cold brews are starting to annoy me. Not plain one, Vanilla sweet creams or nitros but the salted cream cold brew, pumpkin cold brew, and chocolate cream cold brew are quite annoying at my store. I’m running all over the place just to make a specific foam.

All of them

It’s extremely uncommon but the most difficult drink you will ever have to make is:

Venti

Bone Dry

Coconut

Cappuccino

i hate making iced matcha lattes lmfao

For me I want to say frapps can be annoying if everyone keeps ordering them (cause none of my shifts will let us do mutiple batches) but legit anything in a shaker I hate or anything with matcha. I don’t understand the appeal and how so many people order it regularly.

Espresso fraps, not because they’re fraps, but because they smell nasty 100% of the time. I actually mostly like making other fraps, this one just sucks

iced matcha

honey citrus mint teas & matchas

Mocha cookie crumble creme

Frappuccinos tbh. I am The Bitch asking for bar support but all I want u to do it make my fraps bc everything else I got
If not fraps then matcha bc it gets soooo foamy and annoying

Iced Matcha lattes and salted caramel cold brews (ESPECIALLY TRENTA ONES😤😤😤)

Iced matcha for sure.

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ice london fogs

I never really liked making cold bar bevs, tbh. Sometimes if I was doing hot and cold bar, shaken drinks and frapps always took me out of my groove.

ICED MATCHA. Absolutely despise making those. I was living my best life during the shortage. And any drink with cold foam

ice waters when it’s busy as fuck.

Honey citrus mint and iced matchas 😭

SALTED CARAMEL COLD BREW!!!

honey citrus mint tea, my nemesis

Any refreshers

Pour over (when they’re in a hurry), anything with more then 5 modifications 🥲

“Medicine Balls”, iced tea lattes, iced matcha lattes, “iced cappuccinos”

iced matcha

Any frap with an alt milk

Any frap and iced matchas. Idk if it’s the texture, the smell, or the way it foams, but matcha makes me want to vomit

those blended keto drinks with passion tea, heavy cream & sf sweeteners. half slush half liquid and i can never pour it into the cup without making a mess

The cloud drinks “back in my day” were the worst

Second worst definitely any london fog or honey citrus mint type tea drink

Carmel Crunch and Cookie Crumble. Any other frappe is fine

The iced espresso with all the bullshit in it, they’re the WORST

Frappuccino. Not because it’s hard, but they never took the time to teach me and would tell me to do it anyway so I always fucked up

iced tea lattes/iced matcha + not a drink but Bagels

any time someone adds any kind of milk to a refresher, it just makes me wanna barf. (pink drink and heavy cream are worst offenders)

bonus: kale egg bites, also make me wanna barf

Cold foam cold brews: make me very sad, we have so so many different flavored foams and so few foaming pitchers, also changing kegs sucks hole
Mocha cookie frap: a lot of running around to get all the ingredients, no good
Iced matcha: if you think im genuinely shaking that in a shaker you are sorely mistaken, in the foaming pitcher she goes
Other than that i actually dont mind making most menu items, all of my complaints come with peoples’ off-menu modifications, like sauces in cold brews (its not gonna dissolve babe) hot drinks with cold foam (do yall think before you speak) blending drinks for no reason (pumpkin cream cold brew blended?? Girl why???)

Anything with mocha, London fog, pour overs, matcha

Anything with foam.

the refreshers get boring to me so honestly them. same with the Two Frappuccinos (yall know what im talking about)

Toasted vanilla shaken espresso, one cause it takes forever and two because the smell of that syrup with the espresso makes me gag🤢 idk how people drink that crap

Honey citrus mint tea + iced matcha 🫣

Caramel Ribbon Crunch Frappuccino's with extra everything at 6:30 in the morning on the DOT (Mobile order)

I really don’t mind making any of the drinks… unless the order has a ridiculous amount of modifiers that it takes ten seconds to read and by the end you are really just guessing what they really wanted and begin to wonder if they even really like Starbucks, let alone coffee.

To be honest, it depends on the time of day and how busy it is. Quiet days or days that everything is flowing well, I love making ungodly lattes and stuff and anything thats a short make is boring. On super busy days where nothing is going right, if it ain't an Iced Chai, I'm mentally unstable to do it. 🤣 It's been 10 years for me. I think the only drinks I cringe all the time, every time are the seasonal, really. Dat punky spice and CBL business. Ugh.

Brown sugar shaken espresso or any hot drink

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pink drink. it just throws me off my routine

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I feel like anything with sweet cream foam, chocolate foam, foam with cookie crumbles, strawberry foam, pumpkin foam, and all these weird foams. It's gotten to the point where whip cream isn't a priority in my store it's vanilla sweet cream if we run out of heavy cream.

Salted caramel cold brew
Any other cold foam is fine this one just sends me over the edge

Peach green tea lemonade.. its easy to make, but It is very popular and very tedious (at least to me)

any and all choco fraps

anything made in a shaker, i've literally got blisters on my fingers from trying to open them up after shaking them to death

honey citrus mint! fraps don’t bother me at all cause they’re pretty. HCM has nothing to offer aesthetically and is a sequencing nightmare.

Anything where I get to make foam art. 🥰

Fucking pink drinks. The baby pink I feel like is only achieved if you don't follow the measurements on the cup.

Anything that’s not the original recipe.

Iced matcha latte’s and any shaken espresso drink! Basically anything I have to shake

The hot teas and then the shaken espressos. Both take up my time. I have to wait for all the shots to pull for the shaken espressos. Stopping during a rush to open tea bags and then having to take my time to put the hot water in the cup otherwise id burn myself is just so annoying.

Effing cold foam! especially when they want something like matcha in it, the pitcher is forever stained 🤧

Frappuccinos

Yeah any of the cookie frapps. Cookie crumble, ribbon... they just have to many steps. Especially when it's a rush and everyone wants one 🙄🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

Chai lattes, any type of frap and the stupid refreshers

Anything cold foam 😭

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Drinks with cold foam that ACTUALLY get them. I’m sick and tired of making vanilla sweet cream cold foam for pink drinks.

pink drink and pumpkin cream cold brew. i still can’t figure out why. i don’t have as much of a problem with any other cold foam cold brews or refresher drinks, i think it’s just the amount they’re ordered and usually all in a row or every other order.

Ribbon crunch, iced London fogs are too rare for me to hate them but I make a million crunches a day and I’m tired of them

fucking refreshers. i hate refreshers. i would rather make 19374 frapps than ever make a single refresher again. i despise them. i dont know why but i fucking hate them. i hate shaking them i hate adding fucking fruit its the worst. it actually makes my blood boil when i get multiple refreshers in a row and i start cursing under my breath and flipping out, i gotta take off my headset sometimes cause if i hear more after im already making some i will get upset and i will get cranky

ice cappucino and vanilla cold foam golden monkey tea latte with coffee jelly bshdhdh its so much to process for me

And iced custom tea lattes and pour overs during peak or DT🫰

All of em

Anything with too many steps. Fuck cold foam drinks.

Refreshers for some reason

Layered Frappes!

all of them

extra dry capps, especially in a rush

Matcha all the way

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Any drink I think would taste bad. I don’t like putting water in the hot chai tea lattes so that one too. Americanos because I forget to double cup them and have to take the sticker off and reapply it. Same reason for the honey citrus mint sometimes.

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Literally the refreshers that don’t have coconut milk what is the fucking point of shaking them when I’m just gonna dump them in a cup ? We don’t shake it to cut it or even stir it

chai lattes because the chai splashes and bubbles and i dont like the smell