Yes, but we're not supposed to. I don't understand why, like, obviously I get marking out your own drinks being against the rules, but what's wrong with making your own drinks..??

Cafe only, while working we make our own drinks and mark them out ourselves too. Which I like because often I’m just freestyling exactly what I want, if I had to get in line and order I’d end up just asking for an iced chai instead of experimenting. Sometimes if someone comes in when they’re not working they’ll still be allowed to come back and make their own drink too lmao especially if it’s a frapp. 🤫

Super casual store compared to what I’ve read in here! Makes me never wanna be a borrowed partner because I just know I’ll accidentally get myself in trouble somewhere else.

nice try corporate 🥴

As an SM, I let my partners make/mark out their own drinks. There are other things to worry about. Obviously you aren’t supposed but I couldn’t care less.

Yes. I’ve only worked at one store where partners didn’t make out their own beverages and it was a massive headache. Partners either stood in line their entire breaks or were late for their shift due to waiting in line. It’s just impossible to predict how busy it’s going to be at any given time around here. It just caused bottlenecks all over the place.

I always make mine cause if I'm getting espresso, I'm very anal about it. that, and my drinks are really fucking annoying for other people if they have to make it. I won't do it if I'm not the one behind the bar.

It depends. Working morning crew, a lot of us don’t want to make our own drinks. Usually because it messes up the barista(s)-on-bar’s drink sequencing. I usually cannot take this attitude when working with afternoon crew. I’ve had other partners tell me to make my own drink instead when I am off and literally on the other side of the bar too lol. It was like a strawberry açaí for my little sister - nothing really complicated, but still encouraged for us to make our own drinks when possible.

We do. My SM tried to enforce the rule but gave up. Our store is far too busy (and too many of our partners have dietary restrictions that require sanitation of pitchers to keep track of) to do so. I’ve ordered a drink 30 minutes BEFORE my shift started & not receive it until 15-20 minutes after I clock in. Same with lunches. Water is the superior drink and all but sometimes I just want a good drink & it’s stupid that I have to either suck it up & drink a watery, nasty latte that goes to waste or wait until the end of my shift (where I would still wait forever bc our PM baristas aren’t exactly fast on bar).

Omgggg we make drinks at our store all the time lol every store I’ve worked in (6 in total) have never cared.

Oh yeah, not uncommon for a few partners to come in per day just to make a drink or two and leave. Not scheduled partners, just people from the main crew that wanted a drink on their day off

I always make my own drink because I hate adding drinks to a barista on bar especially when it’s busy. Plus i like to add extra extra Vscf on my beverage sometimes.

Policy says no, but my store does, especially cuz it’s busy and no one wants to wait forever for their drink

partners at our store are only encouraged to make their own drinks during peak especially if they’ll only be having a 10 min break, just so they can utilize their 10 minutes well. another exception our store has made, are for trainees to make their own beverages so they can get a hang of the recipes! but other than that, we’re not really encouraged to make it ourselves as it is policy

Nope

Yeah. We're not supposed to but all of us do anyways.

At my first store it was a big no. At my current store we do make our own drinks

We typically all make our own drinks. Recently though my manager has been pushing for us to order our drinks when we start a break rather than making it for ourselves. He said that he’s noticed too many partners trying to make their own drinks and crowding/slowing down the person on bar because they’re pushing in and trying to make something themselves and just getting in the other person’s way. (Our store is super old, so it’s way too small and cramped as it is)

We still make our own drinks, but not during peak/when it’s busy. If it’s really busy and we don’t want to wait we’ll just grab something easy like a cold brew or refresher.

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Not allowed to make your own drinks. It’s in the partner resource manual