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Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind

Full History - 2022 - 09 - 23 - ID#xm92et
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to our customers: an apology (self.starbucksbaristas)
submitted by MessatineSnows
the Impossible is vegetarian, not vegan. our small kiosk has no vegan options. the refreshers have caffeine, as do the black and green teas. because of the food we serve, with bacon and ham, our kiosk is neither kosher or halal. if you have a severe food allergy, you cannot consume our product since we use the same tongs on everything and only have one steamer that is used with both dairy and almond. i don’t know where the braille menu went; i’ve never even seen it. we don’t have lactose-free dairy. the only sugar-free is our vanilla. there’s milk product in the PSL syrup, the white mocha, and the black mocha. we don’t pick our signage, they send it to us. we don’t control the prices. the ice machine, like any other industrial ice machine, is dirty. the water is unfiltered from the tap. we are understaffed and demoralized and they won’t ship us the ingredients or equipment we need. every single one of us would rather serve drinks only in an inclusive kitchen with a relaxed cafe environment instead of trying to do Fast Food 2: Caffeinated Boogaloo. we want better, but the demand comes from the customer. if you can, demand better for us and for you.
StormTheParade 81 points 9m ago
No dairy in the regular mocha, but it is made with shared equipment so for vegans that don't even do shared equipment stuff, mocha is out.

Also cinnamon dolce topping has... butter extract in it, IIRC? So even that has dairy. If y'all still carry it, of course.
friendlySkeletor 12 points 9m ago
I've always been told that the mocha has milk. I imagine at one point it must have?
I just recommend the malt powder anyway bc honestly its way better.
Spacemarine2142 11 points 9m ago
Mocha has no dairy. Gf is vegan (met via sbux). I made sure to read the ingredients before I served her anything.
imtotallysurebro 10 points 9m ago
The milk chocolate (s’mores frap) did I believe.
Assiqtaq 4 points 9m ago
No, as far as I know it never has. That is why it is made with water. I mean, yes it could have milk powder in it, but as far as I can remember, it never has. Not that I have been a continual partner for the life of the company, so who really knows?
rusted17 6 points 9m ago
No milk powder! White mocha, caramel drizzle, and dark caramel all contain dairy. The regular mocha does not
MessatineSnows [OP] 2 points 9m ago
o|-<
Vegan_Sweetie -2 points 9m ago
There is dairy in the regular mocha. Read the powder bag. It has dairy.
StormTheParade 6 points 9m ago
Unless the recipe for the powder changed in the last 2 years, the powder itself does not contain dairy, it's just made with shared equipment so it could have trace amounts. Should say so on the bag IIRC.

The ingredients are just sugar and cocoa powder and like, maybe vanilla?
Vegan_Sweetie -1 points 9m ago
Well, the last time I read the label (which was about 2 weeks ago) it had dairy, I was reading it to find out if I could have it, since I have a bit of a severe dairy allergy.
StormTheParade 3 points 9m ago
Shoddy-Trainer-8051 46 points 9m ago
Some people/partners seem to have missed the point of your post but I am 1,000% with you. Things seem to only get worse and customers are just sending in more compliments, making management think that this near inhumane treatment they have towards us, is okay. When they’re just demoralizing and jading us
MessatineSnows [OP] 11 points 9m ago
thank you ;-; i really do want to give customers a good experience and be that “third place”, but as it is i feel like we can barely keep shit running to minimum food-safety standards
Shoddy-Trainer-8051 2 points 9m ago
Me too. That’s why I’m trying my best to just take things one at a time and I’m closer to my customers than coworkers, I am helpful but not the most helpful and I just keep my head down as much as I can
bigghostb00ty 25 points 9m ago
We clean our ice machine every week and it is very clean. We are also a very busy location. It can be done!
MessatineSnows [OP] 27 points 9m ago
we’re a kiosk, they never trained us on cleaning the machine, how to do it safely, or even what chemicals to use

ETA: i’m really glad *your* ice machine is clean, and that’s awesome of you guys! i’m just saying ours isn’t and the last time it got cleaned was a fiasco
dallizzlee 20 points 9m ago
Our water is triple filtered and the ice machine gets emptied and scrubbed once a week?
DizzyCroutons 1 points 9m ago
i think they meant water from the sink tap, and perhaps they don’t get to the ice machine 😬😬
CITCourtney 16 points 9m ago
I understand your point, but w-why is your water not filtered? Ours came from a tap. We had double and triple filtered exclusively for drinks.
clouds183 8 points 9m ago
also the frap chips aren’t vegan those have dairy in them
spoopy_ruby 5 points 9m ago
and wheat for some reason 🥲
rusted17 6 points 9m ago
We have a hijabi who works for us. I’m vegetarian so we eat a lot of the same food (cheese sticks, the vegetarian food options, and she eats the food w chicken that doesn’t have pork). Should I show her this? I consider our food veggie even if it’s cooked in the same oven, but someone w religious restitrictions may disagree. Thoughts? I know she’s likely aware we aren’t allergy safe and I’m aware we aren’t kosher safe since shared ovens, but I’m not sure if it’s a similar rule in islam?
salaciainthedepths 14 points 9m ago
Honestly she knows her own religion best & I’m sure she’s following it as she sees fit, I don’t think anything in the post is anything she doesn’t already know
rusted17 4 points 9m ago
That’s what I figured. Thank you!
Alternative_Exam3723 3 points 9m ago
Do we work in the same kiosk?😫😫😫
MessatineSnows [OP] 3 points 9m ago
👀
Alternative_Exam3723 3 points 9m ago
I just posted earlier about how I wanted to walk out🙃🙃🙃
Kiosk life has made me NEVER want to work at a corporate store 😂
MessatineSnows [OP] 4 points 9m ago
bruh u couldn’t get me to work somewhere with a drive through for ANY money. every day i’m grateful we don’t have DT or mobile ordering, amen
Alternative_Exam3723 2 points 9m ago
Same! The day we get mobile ordering is the day I walk out😂
Danny_z64 1 points 8m ago
Bagels are vegan, no?
_coca_cola_cherry_ 1 points 9m ago
Your water isn't filtered? Ours is filtered like 3 times
MessatineSnows [OP] 1 points 9m ago
🙃 nope, straight from the plumbing
Spacepanda445 1 points 9m ago
Amen
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