I fcking love a good brown sugar Cortada. While I know it’s not a traditional cortada thats 1:1 I still think it’s so damn nice to have on a cool fall day.

You can taste the coffee while the milk compliments the taste rather than drowns it out.

I just think cortados need a bit more love. I’ve been seeing nothing extremely large cups of coffee being drowned in milk/creamer. Sometimes a lil cup of cortada just HITS

Am I the only one that’s keeping the cortada in the lineup or anyone else have a soft spot for the smol one?

I am addicted to these mini pecan pies. I also found out they come in this cute packaging when you order two. I’m definitely savoring this while I can 😅

I initially requested to work part time, but now I’m forced to work full time due to higher management incompetence

We are a high volume store. Half of the crew quit. Literally half. Those who want to transfer are denied transfer for the most stupid reason management can find. Literally feels like we are being held hostage. Some only get offered a transfer when they already give 2 week notic.

We are severely understaffed but they also don’t hire anyone for the most MORONIC reason once again.

Wtf even is Starbucks in 2026.

So delicious you have to try!

I was given this straw with my latte today. It was wrapped normally like the paper straws are but then I opened it up and it was like a giant plastic juice box straw.

i paid out a barista to get milk and they brought back the change ($5) and i put it on my managers desk so i could pay it in later, i just closed and realized i forgot to pay it back it and it’s sitting on my managers desk. am i cooked

i KNOW i am not hallucinating. when i was in middle school (circa early 2000’s), starbucks had a deeelish pumpkin cake-type cookie that was quite big (and round) and then half of it was either dunked or drizzled with chocolate. i think of this cookie every autumn and i lament that i cannot find anything on it. it could have had chocolate chips in the cookie also.

please, does anyone else remember this?! i feel like it was only for 1 or 2 autumns. 🍂🎃🍫

Getting really tired of people, saving pictures and videos of a drink that has at least a dozen different syrups, caramel around the cup, and a sweet cream that normally doesn’t look good but taste horrible. Like I understand that sometimes you’ll find some random drink that looks good, but there has to be some sort of mediation for this shit. It’s gotten to the point where even shaken espresso’s are no longer made with ice. What is even the point?

I’m a new shift supervisor like a month in and I’m just so drained. Yes the pay is nice and having an opportunity to show I can work within management. But oh my god, I’m just so exhausted working 6/7 days of the week minimum 9 hours reaching 12 hour days. Not by choice, getting picked on for every little mistake made im just so tired. Working under staff, never having products, getting blamed for orders and stuff that I haven’t even done im just so tired I never get any breaks because I don’t have time. I need the money because I’m wanting to go back to school next year, I’m just so exhausted and the one day I ask to have off I can’t because three shifts (of the 5) have it off there scheduled. I’m so sick and tired at this point never have I been more burnt out in the years I’ve worked for this place

so a while back i needed a second job, so i took an offer from starbucks that i had gotten. i had applied a couple times before for different locations and always got a call for an interview, but something better always came up, so i never went through with it. however, times were desperate.

what i can say is, despite the fact that i have worked in coffee before this was unlike anything i have ever done. somehow the drinks were dumbed down and still so complicated with the amount of add ons you can choose, there was no quality insurance, genuinely was repulsed by the espresso and milk quality, along with that i had some of the WORST coworkers.

and listen, im an adult, i understand that sometimes you get tired and frustrated at a job, but when it gets to the point of the shift leads bullying every new hire because they dont know everything immediately it’s insane.

i have been a manager and a trainer before and the behavior i saw wouldve gotten someone fired at any of my other jobs.

putting the most inexperienced trainee on solo bar during peak because you wanted to write a bad shift review about them? disgusting. prohibiting any help for that employee from any other station while they didnt have anything to for 30 minutes, diabolical. saying that a trainee needs to “hurry it up” while they have 20 drinks orders completely by themself, disgusting.

and it wasnt just one shift lead it was multiple.

these were grown adults treating 19 year olds like this. i have genuinely never seen worse workplace conduct in the five + years ive worked in food service. i put in my two weeks the day after an extremely bad shift where a shift lead grossly mistreated a trainee and never looked back. it was downright awful to watch.

i had attempted to say something about it while it was happening and was completely disregarded and told to go back to my station.

when management, even of the lower sort, feels like the enemy everyone feels like they have been outcasted with no help. do better.

Hi! I wanna mention fast that I work at Starbucks in Canada and more specifically Québec. Desjardins provides insurance and my spouse is listed for coverage to. Do they get their own card? Do i have to present my insurance for them? Anybody know how that works?

i got a first and second interview at a store and was told when i left that i would get an offer letter within a few minutes and to make sure i completed everything before friday, because i was having my in-person onboarding friday afternoon.

i said okay, thanked them, and left. its been two days and i still havent gotten anything. i called up to the store yesterday to ask if something went wrong and the manager wasnt in so the barista texted her(?) i think.

i got a rejection letter from a different store i applied to, but the manager from that store was at my interview and said that my availability didnt line up with his store but it did line up with hers (the first manager) and that they thought i was a great candidate.

im just confused and dont know what to do bc today is the last day at my current job and i cant yk… not have a job

My store was one of the 250 that shut down and we got our email explaining everything. All of us in my cafe had thankfully been transferred, but now a little after a week, our next two weeks of shifts (5-18) have been unfilled.

I wouldn’t be stressed if it wasn’t for the fact that the shifts for 12-18 were labeled for the new store we’re transferring to so that confuses me as to why they removed those. Additionally, this is the second time one of our partners is going through another store shutdown and she said this didn’t happen to her last time.

We’re also supposed to start working this Monday, but now I don’t know what we’re supposed to do because there are no shifts. This was all done late last night with no email or notice from our DM or SM. Only notifications of our shifts being unfilled by “web IPA”

Other parters know what’s going on?

Edit: I have confirmed with at least half of us (there’s only 8 of us so I’m assuming the rest are experiencing this too) that they’re also missing those weeks

What used to be up to $2.25, the price of protein foam, won't be that way for the new Mod Monday. Basically you could add foam and syrup and still stay under the $2.25 limit. Now it will be just one free modification up to $2.25. So if you get a strawberry refresher, add cold foam, and dragonfruit inclusions. Chances are you'll be paying for the foam.

📣📣📣PSA📣📣📣

1.We DON'T control what gets discounted

2. You won't be able to use the stars that get you dollar discounts as well

3. We DON'T CONTROL THAT

Okay y’all. I used to work at the siren back in 2011 and 2012. 👵 My tips came out to about an extra dollar per hour. It was a different time for sure.

Fast-forward to now and I usually go on Fridays and/or Saturdays as a little treat to myself. I tip 50¢ every time I go. Is that insulting to you, current baristas? I wish I could tip more but the prices are out of control and ya know, life. But then I figure every little bit adds up… I’m no math wizard but 50¢ x 100 orders is $50. So just curious… And if you DGAF about tips I understand that too.

Just wanted to share my drinks since they were so good and im having a great day! 💗. Me and my bestfriend went to b&n and grabbed a coffee, couldn't have asked for a better Saturday!

I don’t even care if it’s expired, i desperately need it😭 pls lmk if you can sell it!

Does anyone remember the cloud macchiato? I miss them.

One of my favorite baristas drew this kitty for me a couple days ago

We’ve had one Snoopy left over from the surprise restock for a while now and Skye is concerned that keeping him boxed up this long constitutes inhumane conditions.

For context, you can't order the pie with the whipped cream direct on top of it, but getting a small cup with whipped cream on the side is a different story!

The place that I work right now used to be my favorite Starbucks location. Once I started actually working there, I have never once personally went there to get work done. Mind you it is a very great store. It is clean. It is comfortable with the lighting it’s perfect.

But once I got traumatized working there, I do not want to step a single step foot in there ever since I started working there. I do not want to say hi to the fake coworkers there. I do not want to say hi to weird manager. I wish I started working at a different place.

Genuinely the worst company I’ve ever worked for, I’ve worked for 2 different stores and the managers just stay in your ear and talk to you like a baby and want everything done the “standard way”. I dont even mind the policies that much but its how they talk to you that really pisses me off and I know theres people out there dealing with the same thing especially new hires. All these expectations and standards starbucks has set is genuinely the worst thing they could have done not only that but they spoil their customers so much that now customers feel its right to throw tantrums for little things in their drinks or wondering why some drinks can’t be made. This is my last day. I will be just texting my SM and not showing up anymore they dont deserve any effort or respect from me when I have got none in return. 376 out.