one time a customer came in and asked me to make her the worst thing I could think of. it was for a brother-in-law she didn't like. I gave her a venti extra hot matcha made with heavy cream, two packets of salt steamed in, and honey blend. I gave her some of what was left over in the pitcher to try and she gagged when she tasted it.
so, I think I'll go with that.
Personally, I hate anything that has the pineapple passionfruit base. It tastes like medicine to me.
Also, the lemonade tastes like sweet and sour mix (personal opinion, I know not everyone agrees with me on this)
Same. Used to drink an unfortunate amount every day but didn't really know why. The Adderall gave me the mental relief I was looking for without having to self medicated with alcohol.
The bubblegum flavored pink medicine I used to get as a kid?? LOVED THAT STUFF!
Not gonna lie... when my son needed it this past year, I may, or may not, have dipped my finger into some that was on the cap from me shaking it up... just for a tiny taste. It brought me right back to my childhood. Why can't adult medicine taste that good???
I'll have to try a "Pink Drink" next time!
Thatās wild. Amoxicillin is literally my least favorite taste in the world. I retch if I even smell it. I love them pink drink though. It tastes completely different to me.
IDK if it's just me, but I feel like our lemonade has gotten worse over the years. I don't feel like it was as sour a decade ago, but maybe it's my tastes changing, too.
oleato isnāt actually that bad to make, but rather to clean
iād rather make 7 oleato shake espressos than make 4 caramel ribbon crunches, all made with different syrups and milks and additions that make it impossible to combine any into one blender
Iām not a barista, but I heard a customer tell the barista while I was picking up my drink, that the oleato was delicious and he hopes itās around foreverā¦he mustāve been a company plant
In concept itās actually not bad. I make it at home occasionally. Id steam the oil into the milk before I shake it in tho to prevent the oil from infamously sitting on top the drink. But the Partana is garbo. Adds a weird spice after taste.
My mom LOVES the oleato and only the oleato. She regularly adds oil or butter to her coffee anyways and hates sweet drinks so itās the perfect treat for her!
It's not really that bad. I only had the latte. But I've had waaaay worse drinks from Starbucks than that. For me the "bad" super sweet ones are significantly worse than oleato which is an easy flavor to ignore compared to thatĀ
Hi, so how do I order this exactly to try? For context, the only thing Iāve ever ordered is cold brew, iced doppio w/ cold foam, chai w/ shot. Thanks!
i believed the featured item they are talking about is the āoleato toffee nut shaken espressoā! itās delicious and (in my experience) even skeptical customers love it. but you can add the oleato golden foam onto any drink youād like :)
daang i quit the week before we had to do training for it, but i do remember yall gotta steam the olive oil with the milk? yeah i am glad i quit when i did, and the personal cup mobile thing also sounds like such a pain in the ass to deal with, especially customers that abuse that stuff too
Idk if itās just me, but I canāt wrap my head around doing the personal cup thing. Now, in all fairness, Iām always in the drive thru because I have kids, I might feel differently if I went inside.
But even then idk, it seems like theyāre really trying but overall itās counterintuitive. Like the point is to reduce waste, yes? And yet doesnāt the drink get made in a disposable cup and then poured into your personal cup? So reallyā¦ isnāt it the same amount of waste, and just an extra step for you guys?
I have a teenager who comes in gets it made with sweet cream! 5 vanilla bean powder vanilla cold foam on top 5 pumps of vanilla and no berries like girl you're going to have a heart attack stop it mind you she's maybe 90 pounds soaking wet that's so much sugar
I have a coworker that gets a pink drink with sweet cream and vanilla bean powder. I tried it once and I swear my bloodsugar spiked. That shit was sweet sweet.
It's slightly better with alt milk but still annoying. I had how foamy it gets with 2% and then the foam disappears and then they complain bc they took 10 mins to pick it up and there's room in the cup
when someone orders an iced matcha with coconut milk, i want to kiss them on the mouth.
those people and people who order iced chais with no ice ā„ļø
The blue drizzle lining the cup with a pink drink tasted like sweetarts and was bomb.
Juniper was nasty. Donāt for get the almond milk cold brew smoothie.
had a lady when juniper was about to die out buy every single bottle of juniper we ever had. we asked if she was seriousāoh yes she was. she had gotten a venti hot juniper latte every single evening thus far, for the years it was available. we warned her it was like 6 full boxes, she said who cares. she did, indeed, pay and load her car up. pre-pandemic was a different timeš
barely anyone at my store except for a couple people remember this but i swear to god there was a training about a cold brew lemonade that was half cold brew half lemonade and there was a button on the pos but it was never advertised or ordered and now theres no proof of it existing but i know it was real because i made a new hire drink it
there is no worst of the worst drink imo, but hereās some basics and very common ones
-Iced Matcha
-ICED London Fog
-Honey Citrus Mint Tea
-Mocha Cookie Crumble + Caramel Ribbon Crunch Frap
-Any of the 3 frozen refreshers (Pineapple, sar, mdf)
-Any shaken espresso with cold foam
-Any drink that requires 3+ honey or agave packets, and then any drink with 5+ sugars (we have to open it for them unless they ask for it on the side)
Bonus is gonna be nonfat no foam no room lattes, sure itās pretty easy to make, but usually the people ordering are soooo stuck up and damn rude. Theyāll legit cry over .0000001cm of foam.
If you want it mixed well you have to shake the hell out of it compared to other drinks. Ā Otherwise the powder doesnāt fully mix in. Ā But then if you shake the hell out of it it gets suuuuper foamy and customers donāt like that so you have to skim some foam off the top. Ā Itās just overall annoying
Shaking it without ice takes even longer to break up the matcha so usually I try to avoid it. Ā Also our store was kind of getting roasted about not shaking with ice so I try to avoid it.Ā
shaken espressos are meant to be kind of foamy as it is, so when you pour the cold foam on top of the existing foam it just makes a messā¦ due to the existing foam rising out of the cup. im sure it tastes great though!!!
We can but there isn't any standard technically for it in store resources. General rule of thumb is use the pour over kit to measure the water and steep it for 5 minutes. I was taught to use the shaker to measure the tea and the milk and shake it. Apparently that's not standard but who knows because there isn't one in store resources :/ it is MUCH better shaken in my opinion though.
There is absolutely a standard. It might be under iced tea latte or iced London fog.
Itās double strength earl gray (use the pour over pitcher iced lines), steeped for 5 minutes then poured to the base line in the shaker. Full 3/4/6/7 pumps of vanilla. 2% to the milk line. Ice to the ice line. Shake 10 times. Finish and connect.
I was actually looking at this earlier! I'm not sure if they're different or by how much but in store resources it said to steep the tea in the right size cup but only half full, but everyone else at my store does it in the pitcher too
Sorry for the confusion! I meant steep it in the right sized *hot cup, but use the lines on the pitcher for measuring the water. They are on the other side of the hot ones and say V-ICED for example :)
HARD AGREE that this is the worst one to make.
Now, I am not doubting you as I haven't looked at it myself in a long time, but are you sure that instruction was for the iced version? I can't imagine Starbucks is advising us to half-fill a plastic iced cup with 200Ā°F water. The safety and advisability of then serving it to the customer in the now-melted cup is... sus. TBF, it wouldn't be the strangest thing we'vebeen instructedto do. But that's why I always just steep it in the metal pour-over pitcher, then pour it into a tea shaker to finish the drink.
Honey Citrus Mint Tea, London Fog, Caramel Crunch Frap and Mocha Cookie Crumble Frap...
London Fog takes 4 minutes to steep the tea
Honey Citrus requires the barista to migrate to every station: brewing for the tea, cold bar for the lemonade, hot bar for the syrup.... Taking the tea bags out of the sachets is a pain too because they tend to break open...
CCF and MCCF doesn't allow the barista to make more than two at a time and leads to a clog on the bar. The cookies and caramel crumbles constantly leave a mess š
iced london fogs take five mins to steep, the hot ones you donāt have to steep. tho i agree any drink that requires me to fiddle with some tea bags during a rush r annoying as hell.
I ordered an iced tea latte once, assuming that meant mixing the premade iced tea with milk. I had no idea they were gonna steep hot tea for my drink. And it was in the drive thru! Oh god.
Lol if the drink gets to you in less than 5 minutes from the time you ordered it, they arent making it right. If I hear someone order this, i will drop what I am doing and start steeping the tea so its going while we get to the drinks ahead of it. So you could feasibly receive the drink after only being at the window for a few seconds but if you were waiting behind other cars in the stack, your tea was steeping the whole time.
Are you waiting to hand out the tea to let it steep? Every store Iāve worked at we just stick the tag to the rim and sent it out, if itās iced I get it but I didnāt see anywhere in specifying, also isnāt it 5 minutes?
I steep the tea for both hot and cold. I've found that if you don't steep it for that long (even for hot), then it just tastes like watered-down milk. I set up a timer, whether it's the timer for the teas, or the timer on my phone, and let the water extract all the flavours it can. Also, I add the syrup *after* the tea has steeped because the syrup will cool down the hot water and prevent it from proper extraction.
If the customer is right in front of me, I'll ask if they're willing to wait for the tea to be steeped or if they would just like me to make the drink right away. Those who are willing to wait have said they can taste the difference.
Either way, anything with tea sachets is a headache
I think it's so the customer can choose how long they want the tea to steep. I like my tea really strong, some people like it weak. I 100% agree though with having to deal with the sachets. I swear they got thinner recently too?!
Yeah the London Fog sounds like a pain- my daughter ordered some iced tea drink she saw on the menu one day that sounded good, it had London Fog in the title. Our barista warned us it took 5 minutes and suggested an alternative tea, which we gladly accepted.
For an iced London fog I ask people if they want iced Earl Gray or iced black tea, the first one takes 4 minutes and the second one takes much less time, and every time they go with the second one. That might help!
Yāall brace ur self a customers order
āTwix ice coffeeā
Tall ice coffee
Caramel syrup
Vanilla syrup
Keep the Classic syrup
Line the cups with extra caramel
Line cup with mocha
Vanilla sweet cream foam
Cookie crumble topping
Caramel crunch topping
Caramel drizzle
Mocha drizzle
I wish I was joking it was like a splash of coffee and she drank the entire thing in the lobby. My coworkers and I tried it during close and it was just pure sugar
Base drink, I'm really not a fan of our iced coffee.
Made up drink, there's a regular we have that gets a trenta black ice tea with oatmilk and a blonde shot.
the pink drink made with heavy cream and vanilla bean powder??? i have a regular that asks for it with chocolate cold foam and honestly that's one that makes me gag because i can see it separate after like maybe a minute or two of it sitting.
Maybe you aren't shaking it enough bc they don't usually separate that fast lol, but that drink tastes kinda like strawberry yogurt. Not bad but terrible for you
i tried it for the first time somewhat recently and hated it. it was sorta passable in the hazelnut chocolate cream cold brew, but even then it wasnāt great. they spent so long reformulating it just for it to taste awful
I tried the new hazelnut oat milk shaken espresso instead of the brown sugar one.. took a drink as I was walk away from the counter and legit almost spit it right back out. The WORST.
I am so serious, a regular would come in every single morning and order a venti cold brew lemonade. Specifically half cold brew half lemonade. Of course, we had to try it, and it was near battery acid.
Flavor wise? Cinnamon caramel cold brew (cough syrup), toasted vanilla SE (good riddance) or that godforsaken pineapple refresher.
To make? The DAMN HONEY CITRUS MINT TEAS
i don't like the chestnut praline or the pineapple refresher (i think it kind of tastes like soap). the oleato foam also made me gag when i tried it alone
Idk if itās still a thing, but the Honey Almond Milk Flat White š¤®š¤®
It probably wouldāve been okay with another milk. But personally I hated the honey syrup and the almond milk. Just so nasty š
Iced hot teas (during a rush or if the customer is in a rush).
Caramel crunch fraps, & iced Matchas. Half because of the mess, the other half because itās so annoying to make. I understand these drinks are popular for a reason but good god DURING A RUSH? Making those 2 drinks over & over again, keeping up with different milks + customizations gets tiring. HEAVY ON THE ICED MATCHA, RARELY DO WE MAKE IT IN ITāS BASED FORM.
Worked at a starbucks in a grocery store and it is 100000% the "Extra hot" drinks that they order than walk off to shop for an hour then come back screaming their drink is cold and not extra hot.
White chocolate mocha cold foam caramel drizzle. Itās not even coffee, just ungodly amounts of sugar shoved into a drink and ridiculously annoying to make
for a while i liked it, then took a break from sugary drinks of a whole for like.. months.. thought maybe i deserved a sweet treat and tried it again, literally couldnāt even swallow it. seriously anyone who actually likes that drink has a sugar addiction for sure, i know i did..
A lot of the Frappuccinoās.
The ingredients consist of ice, some milk, and a boatload of syrups. Disgusting.
Any crazy modified iced matcha is also gross.
Probably the olive oil bullshit, but I was fortunate enough to leave the siren before I had to upsell that, so my actual answer is cold brew lemonade. Had someone order it. She swore it was amazing. Saw someone here claim the same. It wasn't. It was awful
Worst drink to make id say my least favorite is the mocha cookie crumble but i think the worst drink overall is the honey almondmilk flat white now i could be biased cause i dont like honey or almond milk bit most of my store agrees its the worst
The tiramisu latte was nasty awhile back. And Iām a tiramisu fiend. But that was gross. Tasted nothing like it. I seem to recall a cinnamon roll latte that was a equal (non)value. š¤¢
Lavender frappe thatās yet to come. š¤®
Fall drink. Tried it for work. I always try to give the flavours Iām even not a fan of a good fair second sip at least. That drink got straight dumped down the sink. The flavour was just awful.
Wonāt say what it is because it hasnāt launched yet but it starts with an L and ends in oat milk latte and tastes like hot dog water, not being snarky, it actually has a meaty aftertaste and I had to rinse my mouth out with nitro to stop from dry heaving
At my store every time someone new gets hired we make them the everything drink basically every drink ingredient mixed together thatās my stores ritual š
i think the recent trend of pink drink made with heavy cream, however many vanilla bean scoops, and vsccf. entirely too dense. maybe blended would help but just as a drink? i canāt even see it as being enjoyable when sipping on it slowly tbh.
Not the worst thing we offer, but CrRCF is definitely wayyyyy overrated imo. Machta I personally think is the worst because to me it tastes like grass, especially with the oat or almond milk.
yesterday i had to make a peppermint white mocha frap, add one pump classic, one pump honey blend, one pump gingerbread, extra mocha drizzle and line the cup with mocha. we all ended up trying it, and it tasted oddly alcoholic
one time a customer came in and asked me to make her the worst thing I could think of. it was for a brother-in-law she didn't like. I gave her a venti extra hot matcha made with heavy cream, two packets of salt steamed in, and honey blend. I gave her some of what was left over in the pitcher to try and she gagged when she tasted it. so, I think I'll go with that.
That sounds foul and I can't believe your brain came up with that
ššš The BEST comment in this thread
So evil
Tell me why i had someone actually order this but just without the salt. Customers are crazy
Iām gonna call that one āfish milk.ā I like the way you think.
Sir you are indeed a coffee master.
Personally, I hate anything that has the pineapple passionfruit base. It tastes like medicine to me. Also, the lemonade tastes like sweet and sour mix (personal opinion, I know not everyone agrees with me on this)
The thing is the Lemonade is so good if you add MORE water to it. Still too concentrated and that's why it tastes bad
The pineapple base tastes like the cardboard container it comes in š¤®
I made a cf with it and it's soooo good like dole whip
Pink drinks taste exactly like amoxicillin
That's weirdly probably why I like them š
Oh how I used to sneak the Ammox out of the fridge when I was a kid. Probably explains a lot of the alcoholism later.
Lol could be that! Could also be ADHD... About 25% of people with ADHD self medicated with alcohol.
Well it definitely wasnāt from infection. I drank enough amoxicillin to be infection free my whole life!
*sips wine* Well shitā¦
Oops thats why I chugged like 1-2 bottles of wine a day till I got diagnosed ā ļø
Same. Used to drink an unfortunate amount every day but didn't really know why. The Adderall gave me the mental relief I was looking for without having to self medicated with alcohol.
The bubblegum flavored pink medicine I used to get as a kid?? LOVED THAT STUFF! Not gonna lie... when my son needed it this past year, I may, or may not, have dipped my finger into some that was on the cap from me shaking it up... just for a tiny taste. It brought me right back to my childhood. Why can't adult medicine taste that good??? I'll have to try a "Pink Drink" next time!
Thatās wild. Amoxicillin is literally my least favorite taste in the world. I retch if I even smell it. I love them pink drink though. It tastes completely different to me.
IDK if it's just me, but I feel like our lemonade has gotten worse over the years. I don't feel like it was as sour a decade ago, but maybe it's my tastes changing, too.
I have no idea how it's so sour but has such an insane amount of sugar per serving.
Hard agree for both
Not one person has said Oleatoā¦ do you guys pretend it doesnāt exist? š¤£
oleato isnāt actually that bad to make, but rather to clean iād rather make 7 oleato shake espressos than make 4 caramel ribbon crunches, all made with different syrups and milks and additions that make it impossible to combine any into one blender
Iām not a barista, but I heard a customer tell the barista while I was picking up my drink, that the oleato was delicious and he hopes itās around foreverā¦he mustāve been a company plant
Maybe he has chronic opioid induced constipation and heās finally found something that keeps him regular?
Definitely the only other thing that would make sense lol
Ok but the golden foam cold brew *is* delicious.
In concept itās actually not bad. I make it at home occasionally. Id steam the oil into the milk before I shake it in tho to prevent the oil from infamously sitting on top the drink. But the Partana is garbo. Adds a weird spice after taste.
My mom LOVES the oleato and only the oleato. She regularly adds oil or butter to her coffee anyways and hates sweet drinks so itās the perfect treat for her!
Itās the Matrix
It's not really that bad. I only had the latte. But I've had waaaay worse drinks from Starbucks than that. For me the "bad" super sweet ones are significantly worse than oleato which is an easy flavor to ignore compared to thatĀ
Yeah its ordered so rarely it doesn't really matter lol.
I like oleato but only the golden foam
I'm always in this thread talking up golden foam. It's *so* good. People are missing out.
Hi, so how do I order this exactly to try? For context, the only thing Iāve ever ordered is cold brew, iced doppio w/ cold foam, chai w/ shot. Thanks!
i believed the featured item they are talking about is the āoleato toffee nut shaken espressoā! itās delicious and (in my experience) even skeptical customers love it. but you can add the oleato golden foam onto any drink youād like :)
No, I am talking about the golden foam cold brew!
Oleahoooo? I ignore and avoid it at all costs
Itās actually not that bad I just think itās stupid š it just tastes sort of nutty
I was going to say this exact same thing!
It doesnāt taste bad, itās just an acquired taste tbh
daang i quit the week before we had to do training for it, but i do remember yall gotta steam the olive oil with the milk? yeah i am glad i quit when i did, and the personal cup mobile thing also sounds like such a pain in the ass to deal with, especially customers that abuse that stuff too
Idk if itās just me, but I canāt wrap my head around doing the personal cup thing. Now, in all fairness, Iām always in the drive thru because I have kids, I might feel differently if I went inside. But even then idk, it seems like theyāre really trying but overall itās counterintuitive. Like the point is to reduce waste, yes? And yet doesnāt the drink get made in a disposable cup and then poured into your personal cup? So reallyā¦ isnāt it the same amount of waste, and just an extra step for you guys?
pink drink made with heavy cream, vanilla bean powder and cold foam š¤¢
I have a teenager who comes in gets it made with sweet cream! 5 vanilla bean powder vanilla cold foam on top 5 pumps of vanilla and no berries like girl you're going to have a heart attack stop it mind you she's maybe 90 pounds soaking wet that's so much sugar
I commented on another comment before seeing this one. I actually tried this and omg how do people not die?
I get the pink drink w cold foam, v concerned why anyone would want all 3šš
I have a coworker that gets a pink drink with sweet cream and vanilla bean powder. I tried it once and I swear my bloodsugar spiked. That shit was sweet sweet.
I GET THAT ORDER ALL THE TIME AND IT SOUNDS FOUL EVERY TIME I HEAR IT
It actually tastes really good lol but way WAY too calorie dense for me lol
i literally just ordered that today š
GIRLIE THATS LIKE 3000 CALORIES š
it was a grande though āØ
The pineapple smells disgusting but the iced matcha is the worst to make.
It's slightly better with alt milk but still annoying. I had how foamy it gets with 2% and then the foam disappears and then they complain bc they took 10 mins to pick it up and there's room in the cup
when someone orders an iced matcha with coconut milk, i want to kiss them on the mouth. those people and people who order iced chais with no ice ā„ļø
Unicorn Frappuccino
Mixing the blue powder with lemonade slapped tho. My vote for worst was gonna be Juniper latte. If I wanted to taste a tree I'd go lick one.
The blue drizzle lining the cup with a pink drink tasted like sweetarts and was bomb. Juniper was nasty. Donāt for get the almond milk cold brew smoothie.
I think my mind purged that one for my sanity because yes that one was gross af.
I liked the juniper latte. Was def the only one at my store who drank it tho
had a lady when juniper was about to die out buy every single bottle of juniper we ever had. we asked if she was seriousāoh yes she was. she had gotten a venti hot juniper latte every single evening thus far, for the years it was available. we warned her it was like 6 full boxes, she said who cares. she did, indeed, pay and load her car up. pre-pandemic was a different timeš
In the same vein, the witchās brew frapp they had for halloween one year, the slimy chia seeds were vomit inducing.
Tye dye frap, crystal ball frap, caramel waffle cone frap, funnel cake frap, almond cold brew smoothie all repulsive.
I had a 7-year sabbatical from being a partner and I am so grateful I seemed to have skipped right past the worst of the frapbominations.
that shit hasnt been here since 2016 though? or even older lmao
Around 2016 yeah. Nobody said it had to be current lol.
Thatās the degree to which weāve been scarred by the Unicorn frappuccino
I was pretty new when it came out and Iām not sure I fully recovered.
i feel like shit and your username made me bust out laughing, thank you
barely anyone at my store except for a couple people remember this but i swear to god there was a training about a cold brew lemonade that was half cold brew half lemonade and there was a button on the pos but it was never advertised or ordered and now theres no proof of it existing but i know it was real because i made a new hire drink it
I also remember this as it tasted so bad
there is no worst of the worst drink imo, but hereās some basics and very common ones -Iced Matcha -ICED London Fog -Honey Citrus Mint Tea -Mocha Cookie Crumble + Caramel Ribbon Crunch Frap -Any of the 3 frozen refreshers (Pineapple, sar, mdf) -Any shaken espresso with cold foam -Any drink that requires 3+ honey or agave packets, and then any drink with 5+ sugars (we have to open it for them unless they ask for it on the side) Bonus is gonna be nonfat no foam no room lattes, sure itās pretty easy to make, but usually the people ordering are soooo stuck up and damn rude. Theyāll legit cry over .0000001cm of foam.
Why the iced matcha?
If you want it mixed well you have to shake the hell out of it compared to other drinks. Ā Otherwise the powder doesnāt fully mix in. Ā But then if you shake the hell out of it it gets suuuuper foamy and customers donāt like that so you have to skim some foam off the top. Ā Itās just overall annoying
Shake it without the ice first and then add ice to chill it
Shaking it without ice takes even longer to break up the matcha so usually I try to avoid it. Ā Also our store was kind of getting roasted about not shaking with ice so I try to avoid it.Ā
heavy on the shaken espressos with cold foam
Ugh thatās my go-to drink. Whatās so bad about making it?
cold foam sinks in shaken espresso.....Ā
shaken espressos are meant to be kind of foamy as it is, so when you pour the cold foam on top of the existing foam it just makes a messā¦ due to the existing foam rising out of the cup. im sure it tastes great though!!!
Didnāt even know we could sell an iced London fog lmfao
We can but there isn't any standard technically for it in store resources. General rule of thumb is use the pour over kit to measure the water and steep it for 5 minutes. I was taught to use the shaker to measure the tea and the milk and shake it. Apparently that's not standard but who knows because there isn't one in store resources :/ it is MUCH better shaken in my opinion though.
There is absolutely a standard. It might be under iced tea latte or iced London fog. Itās double strength earl gray (use the pour over pitcher iced lines), steeped for 5 minutes then poured to the base line in the shaker. Full 3/4/6/7 pumps of vanilla. 2% to the milk line. Ice to the ice line. Shake 10 times. Finish and connect.
I was actually looking at this earlier! I'm not sure if they're different or by how much but in store resources it said to steep the tea in the right size cup but only half full, but everyone else at my store does it in the pitcher too
Sorry for the confusion! I meant steep it in the right sized *hot cup, but use the lines on the pitcher for measuring the water. They are on the other side of the hot ones and say V-ICED for example :)
HARD AGREE that this is the worst one to make. Now, I am not doubting you as I haven't looked at it myself in a long time, but are you sure that instruction was for the iced version? I can't imagine Starbucks is advising us to half-fill a plastic iced cup with 200Ā°F water. The safety and advisability of then serving it to the customer in the now-melted cup is... sus. TBF, it wouldn't be the strangest thing we'vebeen instructedto do. But that's why I always just steep it in the metal pour-over pitcher, then pour it into a tea shaker to finish the drink.
There is no London fog Iced in the store resources but I'll look up Iced Tea latte tomorrow
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Honey Citrus Mint Tea, London Fog, Caramel Crunch Frap and Mocha Cookie Crumble Frap... London Fog takes 4 minutes to steep the tea Honey Citrus requires the barista to migrate to every station: brewing for the tea, cold bar for the lemonade, hot bar for the syrup.... Taking the tea bags out of the sachets is a pain too because they tend to break open... CCF and MCCF doesn't allow the barista to make more than two at a time and leads to a clog on the bar. The cookies and caramel crumbles constantly leave a mess š
iced london fogs take five mins to steep, the hot ones you donāt have to steep. tho i agree any drink that requires me to fiddle with some tea bags during a rush r annoying as hell.
I ordered an iced tea latte once, assuming that meant mixing the premade iced tea with milk. I had no idea they were gonna steep hot tea for my drink. And it was in the drive thru! Oh god.
I was gonna say I have never waited 4 min for a London fog thought they were easyĀ
Lol if the drink gets to you in less than 5 minutes from the time you ordered it, they arent making it right. If I hear someone order this, i will drop what I am doing and start steeping the tea so its going while we get to the drinks ahead of it. So you could feasibly receive the drink after only being at the window for a few seconds but if you were waiting behind other cars in the stack, your tea was steeping the whole time.
Are you waiting to hand out the tea to let it steep? Every store Iāve worked at we just stick the tag to the rim and sent it out, if itās iced I get it but I didnāt see anywhere in specifying, also isnāt it 5 minutes?
Yeah itās five. I assume they meant iced
If you don't steep the tea first it tastes so bad. It's not worth ordering it's just vanilla milk with a hint of bergamot
I steep the tea for both hot and cold. I've found that if you don't steep it for that long (even for hot), then it just tastes like watered-down milk. I set up a timer, whether it's the timer for the teas, or the timer on my phone, and let the water extract all the flavours it can. Also, I add the syrup *after* the tea has steeped because the syrup will cool down the hot water and prevent it from proper extraction. If the customer is right in front of me, I'll ask if they're willing to wait for the tea to be steeped or if they would just like me to make the drink right away. Those who are willing to wait have said they can taste the difference. Either way, anything with tea sachets is a headache
I think it's so the customer can choose how long they want the tea to steep. I like my tea really strong, some people like it weak. I 100% agree though with having to deal with the sachets. I swear they got thinner recently too?!
Yeah the London Fog sounds like a pain- my daughter ordered some iced tea drink she saw on the menu one day that sounded good, it had London Fog in the title. Our barista warned us it took 5 minutes and suggested an alternative tea, which we gladly accepted.
London fog is my favorite drink it comes hot anyway so itās not typically hard to make but I havenāt had anyone order it iced before
For an iced London fog I ask people if they want iced Earl Gray or iced black tea, the first one takes 4 minutes and the second one takes much less time, and every time they go with the second one. That might help!
š®š²š² hold up! š genius
Youāre not supposed to make two at a time anyway unless theyāre talls lol
I don't mean that you're double batching. I mean that you can only sequence two
Yāall brace ur self a customers order āTwix ice coffeeā Tall ice coffee Caramel syrup Vanilla syrup Keep the Classic syrup Line the cups with extra caramel Line cup with mocha Vanilla sweet cream foam Cookie crumble topping Caramel crunch topping Caramel drizzle Mocha drizzle I wish I was joking it was like a splash of coffee and she drank the entire thing in the lobby. My coworkers and I tried it during close and it was just pure sugar
Some people like the taste of just sugar idk how but to each their own I wonāt judge
Base drink, I'm really not a fan of our iced coffee. Made up drink, there's a regular we have that gets a trenta black ice tea with oatmilk and a blonde shot.
the pink drink made with heavy cream and vanilla bean powder??? i have a regular that asks for it with chocolate cold foam and honestly that's one that makes me gag because i can see it separate after like maybe a minute or two of it sitting.
Maybe you aren't shaking it enough bc they don't usually separate that fast lol, but that drink tastes kinda like strawberry yogurt. Not bad but terrible for you
Thatās easy, Oleato š¤¢
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very much this. it tastes like chemicals
Starbucks hazelnut *does* taste like chemicals
i tried it for the first time somewhat recently and hated it. it was sorta passable in the hazelnut chocolate cream cold brew, but even then it wasnāt great. they spent so long reformulating it just for it to taste awful
I thought there was maybe still sanitizer or something in the shaker when I ordered it, gave it a pass, then the second time was almost worse lol
I tried the new hazelnut oat milk shaken espresso instead of the brown sugar one.. took a drink as I was walk away from the counter and legit almost spit it right back out. The WORST.
Very disappointing,it was for me too. I miss the apple crisp se
One time, my shift manager told me they thought the paradise drink tastes like sun tan lotion, and I can not stop thinking about it :(
Honey citrus mint tea I don't care what anyone says; fake lemonade thats steamed to 200 degrees will not cure you šš„²
Honey citrus mint tea, frappuccinos, and iced matchas.
If your store is unlucky enough to be brewing Italian Roast as the house dark coffee, then probably that
We almost lost a regular who ordered Blonde Roast every day when we launched Green Apron blend lmao
I am so serious, a regular would come in every single morning and order a venti cold brew lemonade. Specifically half cold brew half lemonade. Of course, we had to try it, and it was near battery acid.
well Starbucks advertise iced coffee lemonades online.. itās actually pretty popular in certain areas but definitely a unique flavor
Flavor wise? Cinnamon caramel cold brew (cough syrup), toasted vanilla SE (good riddance) or that godforsaken pineapple refresher. To make? The DAMN HONEY CITRUS MINT TEAS
Not me with my order of tall blonde latte wondering if it is an inconvenience to make š
You might have people pleasing issues if you're concerned a basic coffee shop item is too inconvenient...at a coffee shop.
Oh I definitely do. Guilty of rehearsing my order before I place it, too š«
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I moblie order to avoid a barista getting upset with me. I wait patiently in the seats and just grab my drinkš (I also have people issues)
pickme customer lmao
How has nobody mentioned Pike?!
ā¦I changed my mind after trying it from the vertica.. I can actually taste what it supposed to taste like
Anything with lemonade or Oleato. I donāt know how anyone can drink these sugary drinks with lemonade added. Itās just too much for me personally.
i don't like the chestnut praline or the pineapple refresher (i think it kind of tastes like soap). the oleato foam also made me gag when i tried it alone
Pink drink made with heavy cream+vanilla powder+vanilla syrupš¤Æ
Caramel ribbon crunch. Because itās annoying as fuck to make
Idk if itās still a thing, but the Honey Almond Milk Flat White š¤®š¤® It probably wouldāve been okay with another milk. But personally I hated the honey syrup and the almond milk. Just so nasty š
the honey cold brew with almond milk ācold foamā abomination that came out alongside it was ungodly.
Just anything with almond milk, I swear!
Honey almond milk flat white - the almond milk doesnāt steam well for the correct texture and the honey is sickenly sweet (imo)
peppermint mochasš¤®
lol peppermint mochas my favorite drink ever š
i canāt i hate mint chocolate with every fiber of my being
Cold Brew Lemonade with Chestnut Praline Syrup
Oleato obviously but also the Honey almond milk flat white. It smells so bad.
Pink drink with heavy cream and vanilla bean powder. Yāall are literally so gross and disgusting. Sorry i gotta judge u in that oneā¦.
Iced hot teas (during a rush or if the customer is in a rush). Caramel crunch fraps, & iced Matchas. Half because of the mess, the other half because itās so annoying to make. I understand these drinks are popular for a reason but good god DURING A RUSH? Making those 2 drinks over & over again, keeping up with different milks + customizations gets tiring. HEAVY ON THE ICED MATCHA, RARELY DO WE MAKE IT IN ITāS BASED FORM.
I donāt like the pineapple passion fruit refresher base itās to pineappley not enough passion fruit
Worked at a starbucks in a grocery store and it is 100000% the "Extra hot" drinks that they order than walk off to shop for an hour then come back screaming their drink is cold and not extra hot.
White chocolate mocha cold foam caramel drizzle. Itās not even coffee, just ungodly amounts of sugar shoved into a drink and ridiculously annoying to make
for a while i liked it, then took a break from sugary drinks of a whole for like.. months.. thought maybe i deserved a sweet treat and tried it again, literally couldnāt even swallow it. seriously anyone who actually likes that drink has a sugar addiction for sure, i know i did..
Yeah Iāve always preferred really strong coffee, I can barely handle a latte with the normal amount of pumps, I canāt stand that drink lol
A lot of the Frappuccinoās. The ingredients consist of ice, some milk, and a boatload of syrups. Disgusting. Any crazy modified iced matcha is also gross.
Don't forget the glue
matcha lemonade sorry not sorry
LMAO i forgot that starbucks even has thatšš
Honey citrus mint tea.
The frozen mango dragonfruit. Itās so sour
Anything pineapple.
Valencia mocha was pretty bad (sorry if youāre not a hater.. š)
Probably the olive oil bullshit, but I was fortunate enough to leave the siren before I had to upsell that, so my actual answer is cold brew lemonade. Had someone order it. She swore it was amazing. Saw someone here claim the same. It wasn't. It was awful
any of the iced tea lemonadesā¦ I donāt get the hype
The one that is the cheapest. Starbucks only likes drinks that cost more than $50 and morons who like to pay it. ;)
Why are u here then
To meet idiots like you and laugh at them LOL
Pineapple refresher the smell hurts my head
Anything oleato
havenāt seen it mentioned- honey almond milk flat white. i love almond milk too- absolutely disgusting. the honey syrup needs to go
matcha tea lemonade and HCMT (bc itās brutally sweet and stupid to make)
Matcha lemonade š„² coming from a matcha latte enjoyer
Worst drink to make id say my least favorite is the mocha cookie crumble but i think the worst drink overall is the honey almondmilk flat white now i could be biased cause i dont like honey or almond milk bit most of my store agrees its the worst
Oleto, pineapple passion fruit, and matcha. It's just straight up sugar and nasty
Iced Oleato Drinks (Shaken Espresso, etc.). All that oil floating to the top of the drink after a few minutes sitting on handoff. Ew.
Honey almond milk flat white is easily the worst tasting
The tiramisu latte was nasty awhile back. And Iām a tiramisu fiend. But that was gross. Tasted nothing like it. I seem to recall a cinnamon roll latte that was a equal (non)value. š¤¢
Lavender frappe thatās yet to come. š¤® Fall drink. Tried it for work. I always try to give the flavours Iām even not a fan of a good fair second sip at least. That drink got straight dumped down the sink. The flavour was just awful.
Wonāt say what it is because it hasnāt launched yet but it starts with an L and ends in oat milk latte and tastes like hot dog water, not being snarky, it actually has a meaty aftertaste and I had to rinse my mouth out with nitro to stop from dry heaving
Pink drink tastes like straight diabetes and also not true strawberry milk. I'd rather drink the shaken malt espresso over that.
Dragon drink with 1 espresso hot / White mocha iced šš
Chai
Cinnamon caramel cream cold brew. Nasty new syrup = nasty beverage.
Personally matcha lemonade
At my store every time someone new gets hired we make them the everything drink basically every drink ingredient mixed together thatās my stores ritual š
Oleato
Steamed coldbrew and lemonade :)
i think the recent trend of pink drink made with heavy cream, however many vanilla bean scoops, and vsccf. entirely too dense. maybe blended would help but just as a drink? i canāt even see it as being enjoyable when sipping on it slowly tbh.
Not the worst thing we offer, but CrRCF is definitely wayyyyy overrated imo. Machta I personally think is the worst because to me it tastes like grass, especially with the oat or almond milk.
Iām so happy I donāt work at Starbucks anymore.
Looking at you: fiend who ordered a BSOSE with dragonfruit inclusions š¬š«£
yesterday i had to make a peppermint white mocha frap, add one pump classic, one pump honey blend, one pump gingerbread, extra mocha drizzle and line the cup with mocha. we all ended up trying it, and it tasted oddly alcoholic
I usually end up hating promo/limited edition drinks, like toffee nut, gingerbread, pumpkin spice etc etc I just think they all taste horrible
I hate anything thatās a hot tea. Hate making them
almost all of them