how make coffee?Beans + water.
I dont mind Starbucks dunno why it gets a bad rapIt's super overpriced, but people keep buying it. The beans are better than the hate say, but not as good as advertised. If I didn't work there, there's very few drinks I'd pay for, but most are hard to replicate.
Why do they scorch the fuck out of all their beans, including their light roast?that one's easy, they're a massive corp and they want their shit to be consistent. one way to ensure consistency with coffee is just to burn the shit out of all of it so the primary character is roast. can't tell the difference between origin profile if it all tastes like charcoal.
Why did you never leave?I started working to cover rent while my SO went to college. She ran into some serious health issues in her senior year and never recovered. I've been in and out and in and out of college since 2008. I'm in Starbucks' free ASU program, but working Starbucks while going to school is terrible. It's school-work-sleep, repeat for months, and then you get scheduled outside your availability or stay late one day and suddenly you're behind on schoolwork.
that one's easy, they're a massive corp and they want their shit to be consistent. one way to ensure consistency with coffee is just to burn the shit out of all of it so the primary character is roast. can't tell the difference between origin profile if it all tastes like charcoal.Yeah, they've said almost as much.
In 2007, the Starbucks coffee team hatched a plan to reimagine brewed coffee. Back then Starbucks rotated all its brewed coffees weekly or even daily, with offerings varying from one store to the next. A tall drip coffee at one Starbucks store could be a floral, lemony Ethiopia Sidamo, while across town it was a spicy Guatemala Antigua. At the same time, some customers perceived Starbucks signature roast as burnt. The team set out to create their first coffee specifically developed for drip brewing, rather than a coffee press or espresso, one with an approachable balance of flavor and acidity when served black or with cream and sugar. They kept their project secret, even from Starbucks senior leaders. The code name: Consistent Brew.
The coffee team realized that it was something beyond a recipe, we would have to roast it differently to a make completely different flavor, said Brad Anderson, a 27-year partner and master roaster. It took a lot of testing, experimentation and exploration to figure out a roast curve that would achieve all that flavor without the roasty intonations.
Roasting coffee is an artform a delicate dance of temperature and time. After two months of testing, tasting and trying, the team created a new roast curve for Consistent Brew with a shape that climbs more steeply than the signature curve before flattening out as the beans are released in the cooling tray.
With the new roast, we softened the edges a little bit, said Linnemann. You get the full aroma but the smoky roasty bite is not so overwhelming,
I also went to a starbucks for the first time 10 years agoThat's fine. Or bathrooms are generally open to the public by company policy. But because they're so popular and we don't really have time to clean them, they might not be the nicest.
just to pee cause it was the first public bathroom off the train station. I don't drink coffee.
That's fine. Or bathrooms are generally open to the public by company policy. But because they're so popular and we don't really have time to clean them, they might not be the nicest.
We have REALLY good free water, too. Just please wait in line.
the barista at the one I go to always signs my name with a heart for the iActually, yeah, sounds like it.
am I in
My favorite drink is the shaken espresso with soy milk (used to be the Starbucks doubleshot on ice, but I get the name change)The Starbucks double shot was very unpopular and, honestly, kind of confusing when someone ordered it. The shaken espresso is incredibly popular despite just being a name change.
Thank you for your service! Which is your favorite drink from there?- If I'm trying to cut calories: cold brew with almond milk and stevia/ sugarfree vanilla/ toffee nut.
Also, look at what I got recently (its a water bottle and I was able to use stars to cover most of the price):I'm legit kinda jealous. That looks great, I love the old logo.
What is the ASU test proctoring like? What major did/are you do/doing? How long did it take you? How long are the classes? How much do you study for them? Did you ever take labs? What was that experience like?Test proctoring: generally non-existent. Some classes will make you use a program that records all mouse movement and/or records you via webcam, but most classes don't. I could easily Google every test question...
Have they given you full time yet?I'm a shift supervisor, so yes. Some stores are easier than other for baristas to get full time, but you are supposed to be scheduled 66% of your availability. So if you have 60 hours your available, you should get 39 hours. But it depends on your state, the hours available at your store, your performance (generally more hours is the "reward" for good performance), and other factors. You can also pick up shifts at other stores. There's always someone who wants the day off.
You need to carry more ham and Swiss bagettesThey're not very popular, tbh. So if we order 3 a day, either 3 people buy them all or no one buys them and they all get "donated". (Actually, stores are getting much better at truly donating our waste.)
there's like six baristas at my starbucks who know me by nameThere's two types of people we know by name:
do they all hate me or do you think theyre ok with me
Are there anti union propaganda posters in the break area?Yes.
There's two types of people we know by name:
- regulars we like
- regulars we hate
If you're not an asshole, we probably like you. Even if you just come in and get the same thing everyday, it's nice seeing consistent customers.
But if you come in and bitch and moan and make us remake your drink despite it being perfect, we probably hate you, though we'd never say that.
Tbh, from my experience, I don't really have issues with most customers. The ones who are really bad we ask to leave. There's more to worry about behind the bar than John whose drink is always too cold or whatever. We'll just remake it and move on.
How are all the white girls getting those pumpkin spice latte's so thin?They won't be for long or they're not actually regulars.
Ive got an fully automatic delonghi coffee machine and it makes good coffeeAs a barista, I'm just a cog in the machine, they don't pay us to know about that stuff. Espresso drinks are made by pushing a button. Brewed coffee is just made by following directions.
but I know nothing about coffee itself other than its beans and water
is manually making a coffee such as grinding the beans yourself and using all the other non-auto parts actually that much better? How would I learn to do that? I dont know what I dont know
Ooh thank you for all the drink recs, ima try this one next time!I'll go ahead and say, it's definitely not something I'd normally recommend to the general public. But if you like matcha, give it a try. The strawberry acai is very sweet but the matcha gives it some "depth." You can even get it blended and it comes out kinda like a slushy.
How are all the white girls getting those pumpkin spice latte's so thin?Metabolism and exercise. Though, they probably won't be for long if they keep drinking at Starbucks.
Big fan of the roasteriesNever been, but I'd like to go. There's only 3 in the US, I think.
What drinks are worth it?Yes, I'm a barista.
Ive only had black coffee from there and I loved it tbhHappy? Meh. It's not what I want to do at all. I don't mind the customers, but every store is understaffed by design. I would love an office 9-5 job.
was VERY hot tho ehh
anyways are you happy working there? Do the customers look eager or should I say happy to get their orders?
whats your pay?
Happy? Meh. It's not what I want to do at all. I don't mind the customers, but every store is understaffed by design. I would love an office 9-5 job.
Baristas start at $15/hr, can be higher depending on area. Shifts get +27%. You usually get ~2.5% pay raise a year, plus about $500 in stocks dispersed over 2 years. I always tell people asking, I don't think it's worth it if you don't care about the benefits. Free college through ASU, very good discounts on health insurance, dental, vision, and really good resources for trans people transitioning (though those resources are getting stretched thin a bit). Those are the main things, they also match contributions on your 401k up to 5%, have a 5% stock purchase discount, PTO (about 2 weeks per year if you work 40 hrs/wk), paid sick leave, parental leave for either parent, area specific commuter benefits (free ubers in some places), plus free drinks, food, and coffee every week.
When is the Smores Frappuccino returning!?How many paygrades above me do you think is that decision?
I worked there for around 9 years and bowed out due to the forced sensitivity training + handling of the Philadelphia event + the expose of their, err, "forced labor" plantations. All that drama took place in the same 1-2 years for me and since I was a GM I couldn't handle the gallons of kool-aid and ran screaming. Haven't looked back.As a barista, I just viewed that training as a paid vacation. It was such an absolute joke.
When I worked there I surmised that all their local acronyms and certifications were in-house and was no real answer to an actual regulatory body. Management didn't like that at all.
So what's your hourly wage as a manager who has been there a long time? I could actually see someone making a decent career out of it.I was considering posting my paystub, but that's kinda sketchy.
Neat, grats on the near 10 years.I've had 13 different managers, I think, it's hard to keep track. Your experience will differ VASTLY depending on store, coworkers, and manager. The old saying, "people don't quit jobs, they quit managers," is definitely true at Starbucks. Some have your back, some are down in the trenches with you, some are corporate slimeballs that couldn't steam a latte and can't actually manage.
My girlfriend started as a Shift Lead 6ish months ago... From what she's said, the management seems, we'll say lacking.
Having a cold brew brought home every day is nice, though. And the punkin bread is legit tippy top notch.
Two questions regarding the name procedure:
1) What do you do if a customer absolutely refuses to give you their name?
2) Have you ever intentionally put a different or weird-sounding name on an order if the customer was particularly rude? Like so that they may not recognize when their order is up and end up waiting longer than they needed to.
I ask about #2 because I would inconvenience asshole customers when I worked at McDonalds. Like I would call their order but if they werent paying attention I wouldnt make the effort to call them again, and when they came up to throw a hissy fit asking whats taking so long, I would truthfully tell them I already called them lol