Those milk dispensers are gonna be a massive pain in the ass to keep clean, Starbucks used to have milk on tap and got rid of it because it was so finicky

how am i supposed to batch 4 venti caramel ribbon crunch in this 🙄🙄🙄

I like how they didn't show us her struggling to put on the dome lid 😤 my store has been struggling with these new lids and it's actually a nightmare. How am I supposed to get 40 second dt times when I'm spend over 40 seconds putting on a lid.

1. This is less efficient
2. More deep cleaning (those cupboards?? the whip machine??????)
3. They’ll never pay to make this happen company wide anyway

i think it’s a great way to take the craft out of our job and make us nearly indistinguishable from a mcdonald’s or tim hortons. i could definitely see all the good baristas who care about coffee leaving to go to smaller cafes if this happens (me included)

Looks a lot slower than the current procedure, and all of those automated dispensers would be miserable to clean and maintain. I do like the lid-less blender pitcher tho.

why do i feel like this takes longer

Pretext: I was able to watch the Starbucks Tech Fair before it was released to the general public/before it was published on the Partner Hub page. I’ve seen technology there that even my Regional Director wasn’t aware was being developed. AMA

Look at this in combination with the new Clover Vertica coffee brewer which will be coming out to all stores within the next 2 or so years, the Oviso espresso machine, and the new fully-automated syrup dispenser (it’s connected to MoP and the PoS to load and queue syrup pumps in real-time).

All of this, when combined, looks like a very big step toward a completely automated and barista-free Starbucks. It’s not going to be a big step from the new CBS system (shown in this post), the Clover Vertica, the syrup system (past proof of concept stage and now in testing), and the Oviso, to make Starbucks a full self-service (at the least for Cafe customers) and/or turning baristas into nothing more than a button-pusher.

Regardless, the “hand-crafted” element of Sbux is gone after all of these new updates are implemented.

the only more automated thing we need is automated sugar dispensers. nothing slows me down like having to open raw sugar.

I'd love to see how this works when it's peak, teenagers are coming in hoards, every frap has at least 6 different mods, alt milks.

This is awful i hate everything about it. Looks like it takes so much longer than just barista adrenaline speed lol. Not to mention the horrific fly problem that already takes place at every starbucks, and the dripping and the machines that are completely unreliable (POS and Mastrena IIs). Complete dogshit and i wonder WHY they had to put a cut when the barista was “grabbing the milk”. Probably cuz it takes 50 years. Frap didn’t even look good and the whip looked ridiculous. This is garbage if this happens as someone who cares about the craft and the creativity that it takes to “craft a perfect HAND CRAFTED beverage” i will gladly go to a small business coffee shop to help there. This automation means we will never EVER see another raise from Starbucks.

I hate everything about this. Also why does the frap look watery af

Frappuccinos would be so much easier, but I hate the whipped cream dispenser.

I think the only thing I can say would actually help in anything from this video would be the lidless blender

that definitely would take 10 times longer

I think i’ll stick to regular cold bar 🫠

If your name is Alex S****r, might be worth telling you that it looks like TikTok actually shows us YOUR account even when you’ve shared the post on Reddit.

I knew this happens when you send TikToks via text (every time I click a video my friend sends, the app tells me she sent it and asks if I want to follow her account)… but didn’t think it would happen even through Reddit and other apps until just now seeing this.

Just thought it’s worth saying cause I absolutely don’t want my own Reddit account associated with my real name 😂

No. Nobody is going to actually clean the shit properly. I thought it was a good idea at first, but thought about the cleaning and once one component breaks down then you gotta either have to do it manually or it's just fucked. lol

how will we do modifications lmao nobody get a normal drink

I’m so glad I left this shitty, fast-food coffee company.

I’m calling it now:
By the end of the decade, Starbucks will be using fully automatic machines for much of the drink menu, similar to those you see in office buildings. The barista will be a glorified button pusher, whose primary task is to cap, sleeve, and hand off drinks. “Handcrafted _________” will be a selling point on things like lattes, or you can buy a fully automatic one from The Siren™. The only things that will still be “handcrafted” are brewed coffee, and very basic drinks that require little training.

Starbucks invests way too much time and money in developing new fancy automated technology (that will probably malfunction constantly anyway) when they should be investing in more labor and employee retention for their stores. It’s not broken, they’re just trying to run skeleton crews while drinks get more and more complicated because you let customers make up whatever bullshit they want. That’s just how I feel about it.

She didn’t pump the base, nor did she sequence her drink on hot bar.

Wait so we’re gonna phase out whip creams?
No more free nitrous :(

absolutely not

Takes longer and loses all kinds of personality. How am I gotta have a whipped cream blowout in the cup with this?

It’s slow af, like have they ever worked a peak?

i'd quit

The only thing from this video that I want is that built in cup dispenser. I’m over tripping over that stupid cup cart or catching my ankle on the screws🙄

Whats the point of training at this point if its just pushing buttons

I do not see this working. Whip takes too long. Milk dispenser and ice dispenser are gonna be annoying to clean. Not to mention if they break which if they're like anything else Starbucks has then they will...then will be back to the old way anyway

i’d KILL for an ice dispenser. but the milk and whip seem disgustingly unsanitary. we have to remember that some stores don’t even wipe out their fridges. some don’t clean their ice machine. some don’t even clean their milk fridges in the back with all that milk that drips down. i don’t think this is as efficient as it seema

Fraps are already a pain during peak I just feel this way is just gonna take more time

So much for handcrafted

NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

That whip looked nasty.

And they think this is gonna be faster? I don’t think so. Cuz imagine one of the things crashing half way through you tryna make a frappe. Just have two people on cold bar 🤷‍♀️

Is Starbucks still pretending to not be a fast food place or? Looks like so much will go wrong everything is already always broken as it is

Wow it would be a nightmare for closers. Cleaning all that milk etc. and the whipped cream? Ugh.

that whip is coming out mighty slow…..god forbid they want extra whip. and this is supposed to help drive times??

Yeah imagine saying sorry our whip machine is down today 😭😭

no cuz why does it remind me of mcdonald's 😕

Everything looks great except the whip creams to slow

it was ok i guess until the whip part, the hell is that id rather whip it myself, 10x faster?? the automatic ice and milk dispenser is kinda weird, milk one especially, but i can’t say i haven’t joked about something like that to my coworkers before. secretly i think we knew it was only a matter of time.

OH MY GOD THATS CRAZY

So not a vibe.

I can just imagine the maintenance is going to be a massive pain for everything. It’s going to break down every 5 seconds and we’ll just have to make fraps the old fashioned way when that happens anyways. I’m fine doing it the way we are now as long as I don’t have to call in tickets and troubleshoot this stuff every other day

Only fun thing about this is when stores start getting it and baristas race the robot

cant wait for it to break down and tell people i cant make frappuccinos cause the entire cold bar is broken

I don't like it!

I hate automatic milk dispensers with a passion. When I worked at Dunkin we had them and they are an absolute PAIN to clean and fill.

Absolutely not. Whip should take 3 seconds to put on. Also noticed how they cut the video in certain parts cause it obviously was dispensing slow as hell. Something in my store breaks once a day, I don’t trust this wouldn’t immediately break down during peak

Unfortunately

It’s not very efficient.

so like it looks cool. but like it’s gonna be so… euuugh. like it looks all fancy and automated and blah blah but it’s gonna be horrible >_<

yeah fuck this

the whip machines gonna be a pain

TIHI

Weird

Why is that frap roast pump so massive

When I first heard of this I thought that actually sounded like it would be good. But, seeing it demonstrated now, it looks like it literally takes LONGER to make stuff.

And obviously NONE OF US EVER BATCH BLEND 🫣, but IF we did, that blender pitcher would make it impossible now. So expect wait times to just go up.

Not to mention that all of that looks even harder to clean and maintain. With our espresso machines breaking as often as they do, I don’t even want to know how often a whipped cream machine would actually work properly.

Ppl in the comments of that video saying starbucks is becoming like lesser coffee shops or every other coffee shop. Like no, that’s closer to dunkin or mcdonald’s. This is gonna slow down everything and if one part breaks the whole thing is fucked. Idk why starbucks is trying to innovate to improve like THIS, when they should be fixing the machines already in place, and using the money to make this shit to pay yall a livable wage. This is gonna cut drive times too making the lines even longer, further burning out baristas and making customers angry. Awful!!!!

The only thing from this video that I want is that built in cup dispenser. I’m over tripping over that stupid cup cart or catching my ankle on the screws🙄

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My store is still using the first version of the espresso machines that have been since the store open YEARSSSSSS ago.

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Yeah those espresso machines Starbucks made kinda fucking suck and I bet the same will happen with this new system. 😩