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Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind

Full History - 2022 - 10 - 01 - ID#xtdlcj
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Guys what the fuck is a half pump and why wasn’t i taught this (self.starbucksbaristas)
submitted by piplupkills
Im reading through post and someone mentions HALF PUMPS? what is that!!!!😭😭 I just pump it however far the thing can go like damn and do certain drinks get them?!???? I thought my trainer was good but was never taught this, I just want ro be good at my job☹️
threeivy 16 points 9m ago
Syrups that are usually in drinks that are meant to get half pumps should have a different physical pump top on them so you don’t have to do anything different. They’re kinda more triangular and round than the full pumps. If your store doesn’t have the actual half-dose pumps though it might be tougher. Shaken espressos, teas, and refreshers get half pumps, if I remember them all correctly (if I’m wrong or missing something someone else please correct me lol). Cold brew has its own weird thing going on. My store keeps a half pump on brown sugar, toasted vanilla, classic, raspberry, and liquid cane since those usually get put in drinks that come with half pumps. If someone orders them in a drink that doesn’t get half pumps according to the recipe, for example brown sugar in a latte, and your store has the half-dose pump on the brown sugar bottle, then you’d do double to number of pumps to equal it out.

I know it’s confusing lol I hate it a lot because when I was training it was super hard to remember. If your store has the half pumps on the bottles then you’re really all set and I’m sure you’ve been doing okay without knowing :) please ask questions if I didn’t make sense, I’m bad at explaining things haha
bellamythos 12 points 9m ago
frapps also get half pumps, except matcha gets 2/3/4 FULL pumps of classic; non-nitro cold brew with sweet cream/cold foam gets 1/2/3/4 full pumps of vanilla, to be more specific.

everything else in this comment is spot on!
threeivy 5 points 9m ago
Thank you! I started getting ramble-y so I didn’t wanna make my own comment more confusing trying to elaborate on those drinks too haha. Also doesn’t the strawberry frap also get classic?
bellamythos 6 points 9m ago
it does! the strawberry frapp gets 1/2/2 full pumps (so basically 2/3/4 half) like any hot bar sauce
threeivy 5 points 9m ago
Oh wow I didn’t know matcha and strawberry were different amounts. Thanks for your help, I learned something too!
piplupkills [OP] 5 points 9m ago
THIS MAKES SO MUCH SENSE , thinking about ti actually now and i definitely remember some pumps not pumping as much so im going to check it out when i work tomorrow, oh my goodness THANK YOU!!!!!!!
Sweet-Art2103 4 points 9m ago
my store has full pumps on the raspberry so then if someone orders a passion tea with raspberry i would do 1/2/2???
irritablegarlic 2 points 9m ago
I haven’t found any concrete evidence on the answer to this question, but since the recipe card for iced teas says to use half pumps of LCS when people want it sweetened, I say to use half pumps on ice teas with other syrups.
truecrimeANDchill 1 points 9m ago
Since there’s no standard syrup in the iced tea anymore, I’ve been told the standard is to use whatever pump the syrup they want to add has. Meaning LCS would be half dose but raspberry would be full pumps.
clouds183 3 points 9m ago
basically half the number of pumps you’d normally do. like for shaken espressos you’d do 1/2/3 full pumps instead of 3/4/6 full pumps. if it already has a half dose pump on it then no need to worry just do normal 3/4/6 pumps.
Adeptness-Lucky 1 points 9m ago
So say my brown sugar syrup has the half dose pump attached to it, for a grande BSOSE would I do 2 of the half pumps?
PercyGabriel1129 2 points 9m ago
Nope, it'd be 4 half pumps. Aka 2 FULL pumps
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