ITT: You disclose the perfect soy carmel macchiato recipe...

Oh look, the yank has found a job for himself. Yes, let us make a thread of it. Well good job yank, welcome to the actual world.

enjoy being a douche to everyone you ever meet from now on until you quit that job.

>>1168007
Yeah, had to put my 'smile' face on. I've worked at canneries, flea markets and dumps. Now I have to deal with people.

I wanted to hear Starbucks stories.

>>1167962
You are the yuppies

>>1167994
0/10
Silly, Britfag

I haven't worked there, but I'm sure it's not a bad job.

You aren't shoveling shit. You aren't closing a line/kitchen. It might get busy. Big deal it's just coffee.
Should be fine.

>>1168051
My sister's ex used to work at a Starbucks in CA. It's not too bad. You have to memorize A LOT of stuff, and deal with people who are going to complain it's too hold or too cold or there's not enough cream, because they think Starbucks is a step above any other coffee place and therefore it's worth complaining about every little thing. It's kind of like going to Burger King and sending back your burger for too much lettuce, you know? I don't know if he got a discount or free food or anything, but I would work there just for the pumpkin bread, and because you aren't working in a dirty kitchen with a bunch of morons. Not to say that Starbucks employees are smarter (they tend to have too much personality, he felt like some of them were very fake), but they don't just hire anyone. They're pretty selective.

>>1167962
OP, tell us some formulas when you start training. You don't have to tell us a lot, maybe just one recipe.

>>1168136

fuck this. OP, you tell us EVERYTHING.

barista fag here ask me anything.

Working for starbucks is great, you dont have to memorize a whole lot actually.

>>1168170

is this because no one really knows what they're ordering so you can just make it up as you go?

>>1168178

Usually if I make a mistake I say fuck it and serve it to them anyway. Nobody complains. I once forgot to put TWO SHOTS of espresso into a grande mocha, effectivly making it a grande hot chocolate. They didn't notice shit.

also you can steal nitrous chargers and stockpile them for the weekends

I worked for Starbucks for nearly 3 years when I was younger, and it was a pretty good job for what it was. Got promoted to shift supervisor and was awarded District Partner of the Quarter.

so uh, woo.

>>1168179
Do people complain a lot about their orders? Because for some reason, whenever I get a shitty tasting drink that doesn't taste as it should, I don't complain.

What are the wages like there?

Starbucks is shit and here's why.

There's places where there are two on opposite corners. You can leave one and be looking right at another.

So they pushed out all the epic local places and oversaturated the market. They just closed a bunch and are looking to rebrand. How you ask?

By stripping the stores of logos and giving them "mom and pop" style names, like the ones they pushed out in the first place.

also their coffee is shit.

I lived in Seattle for a year, and I've still never set foot inside a Starbucks. Everyone there is convinced they're the devil. I don't disagree.

Your friends will love you when you bring home the leftover baked goods.

>>1168197

Not really. Theres only a hand full of times someone has.

The wages here in Michigan are a few bucks higher than minimum wage.

>>1168228
>epic local places

I worked for an independent coffee shop for a year, you guys at starbucks have it easy - automatic espresso machines, standardization, corporate supply chains, good branding and marketing, and insane brand recognition and loyalty to boot. And your company pays you and gives you benefits.

The coffee retail business is a fun one, although it's really sad how few many true connoisseurs there are.

For everyone who was asking, you can find all the starbucks recipes listed online.

>>1168245
I live in SW Michigan and looking to get a job there that's why I asked about the wages. Thanks.

RUN. RUN NOW.

Shift Supervisor/Actorfag, here. I just qualified for health insurance there, so now I'm trapped until I get something even vaguely better.

It's not that the job is all that difficult. Waiting tables or bartending would be much harder. But it just wears on you. You have no control over anything, even in a supervisor-level position. We're literally not allowed to say no, people will say the most horrible things to you, and the company is constantly cutting staff and pushing up hours because they're no longer making a profit.

Oh, and there's also the crushing realization that you are slaving away for hours a day at a job which will never, ever take you anywhere, but that's pretty much any retail gig.

My sister just got a job at starbucks. She said that remembering how to make drinks is the bitch.

>>1168254
OP here.

Yeah I was told to never accept a supervising/manager position.
I'm just hoping I'll be getting lots of hours. And I was told my starting pay would be 8.20. I live in Northern California.

>>1168254

Why should the Starbucks employee ever say no?

Unless the person is asking for sexual favors, a $5 coffee entitles you to a lot, and the corporation realizes that their coffee is a fucking rip off. Upset just a few customers, and an entire store could reach critical mass where "that isn't the cool place to hang out anymore", and the whole thing goes under, since no one really enjoys the coffee, and sure as shit no one enjoys paying too much for shitty coffee.

You're told to say YES to everything because it's a fucking scam, and every second they're in your store they're more likely to buy a $40 French Press, or an $80 Rice Krispy Treat.

I don't understand whats so difficult to understand about that.

Gays are hard to please.

>>1168257
>My sister
That's because she's a woman.

>>1167994

Cranky angie is cranky.

>>1168574

there's nothing to understand, sherlock. it's as obvious as you said.

At first I looked at the thumbnail and it looked like he was cleaning the sign with a cat. I better get some sleep.

OP, sorry about your slave wage job. Hope it's only until you get through college.

Also, Green Mountain is superior in every way.

Yuppies? More like white trash.

>>1168588

AH! I don't even mind that you said that like a dick... my point is MOST PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE THAT.

I totally agree it's painfully obvious (just roll down your car window, and look at the morons out front your local Starbucks), but most people ARE fucking morons.

>>1168574

So what you're saying is that both Starbucks corporation and the customer realize that the customer isn't paying for coffee but rather for the right to abuse another human and to vent at and take out all their problems and frustrations on them.

I feel sorry for anyone who has to work at such a job.

>>1168597

You really resent people who make lots more money than you, don't you?

>>1168615

Basically. Yeah.

Ever worked an $8 per hour job (or less if you're older like me)?

Your entire job is basically "move this from here to there", and "do whatever the customer tells you, unless it goes past what I arbitrarily don't want you to do... and don't bother asking where that line is... as you wont know until I fire you for it. That's how we make sure no one ever makes more than $8 per hour."

Does it suck?

Oh fuck yeah.

Do you think it's strange that someone would work at a job like that?

CONGRATULATIONS! You're 12 years old, and you've just been underageb&!

>>1168617
Only if they acquired such wealth by using questionable methods.

What I resent are these yank trash chain joints that pollute each street corner.

Yeah.. just a hired douche.. Better off dead.. Better off watching youself die and being okay with it.. Youre just a starbucks douche.. being paid 8 dollars an hour.. to be humiliated.. Like a gay porn actor..

Youre better off dying.. fuck all that shit.. dont be a starbucks twink.. Fuck starbucks.. Nothing is good is its designed, built, streamlined, optimized by corporate greed to make people rich, one mans success is anothers failure.. fuck this rat race bullshit.. the human race wasnt meant to be seperated like that, where one person is happy and another person is fucked.. thats disorder..

>>1168619

12 years old? I worked at Kmart for $4 an hour for two years in my early 20's. As a magna cum laude college graduate.

Don't lecture me on hard knocks.

I worked there for 9 months. Steep learning curve, and if you have douchey coworkers, it can be a nightmare. I don't have any customer horror stories, they were always respectful at the very least. Don't fuck up drinks. If you're not confident, ask for help. If you hand a customer a drink that they don't like, shit will be worse. Much worse. Learn the way certain shift managers like to run things. They usually go against the book and expect everyone to just pick it up as they go. Never stand there idly. If there is no one in the store, wash dishes, clean tables, restock. You should always be busy. You only have a 30 minute meal so make it last. Bring food unless you have a place near you since you'll be sick of Starbucks food after like 2 weeks. If you close the store, feel free to take any pastries from the pastry case if you're going to throw them out anyways, just make sure its past Starbucks' shelf life for them. Be knowledgeable about all the different coffees and drinks, because if you're on the register and the customer asks for a coffee similar to Italian roast and you go "uuuhhhh," you're boned and the store loses a customer. Trust me, Starbucks is really anal about being knowledgeable. Study the materials they give you.

I can't think of anything else right now.

>>1168624

Hmmm, I can't tell who this is. Posting anonymously is really masking your identity well, isn't it?

>>1168634

First... I'm not trying to lecture anyone (moron). Second... I wasn't talking specifically to you (moron). Third... who the fuck cares what you made working at K-Mart in the 50's? Fourth... magna cum laude is a meaningless phrase that all colleges apply to different standards of excellence, and means nothing more than "with great honor".

Fifth (and apart for emphasis)... why the fuck would a former Magna Cum Laude college graduate who'd moved past the "work-a-day" world post on a cooking board on 4chan?

lulz...

AMIRITE?

Isn't anonymous lying the funniest thing ever? I mean... that's the WHOLE fucking point of anon right? That people feel no need to pretend their more than they are, because no one knows who they are. What sort of INSECURE person see's the opportunity to be anonymous as the opportunity to "attempt" (poorly) that they're better than they are.

Hilarious.

I love you.

HAHAHHAHAHAHA
You guize said cum.
As you were...

Ex-baristafag here.

Starbucks was an unnecessarily drama-ridden cesspool of bullshit. It had it's moments of win, though.

So I'm working on the bar on a busy Friday night, I pick up a cup marked as a decaf vanilla soy latte. Bitch takes a sip and says something along the lines of "this is wrong, make it again."

After 2 remakes of this bitch's latte, I walked her through the process of making it. Turns out she wanted "the vanilla soymilk, not vanilla syrup."

Then she makes some snotty remark about our intelligence. My shift lead pulls me aside and says "fuck this bitch, she's getting caffeine."

Mystery syrups, expired coffee, burnt milk, grounds in the cup, dropped cup, sanitizer water. So many ways to fuck up a person's drink. Start getting creative.

I agree with a lot of what's been said already. Highlights:

- You'll ALWAYS have something to do.

- Write everything on the cups, even if you're the one to make it. It's a good habit, and it saves you from having to ask "Sorry, what kind of milk did you want?" or other embarrassing shit.

- Be knowledgeable.

- Make an effort to remember regular customers. More often than not, remembering someone or her drink on the second or third visit will get you a decent tip.

- Always say yes. (I mean, use your head, but don't worry about the profit margin on one transaction if a customer isn't happy.)

- Have fun and experiment with drinks. Some of the best things aren't on the menu. Things you absolutely must try:
- strawberries & creme goes well with mocha, white mocha, chai, and hazelnut (separately)
- coffee frap with caramel SAUCE (not syrup) blended in
- mocha misto frap (Misto is their pretentious way of saying cafe au lait, half coffee, half milk. A misto frap is half coffee base, half cream base. This is deceptively, deliciously simple.)
- if they still have that thick lemonade base, do that to the first line, cream base to the second. (You'll know about those lines soon enough, if you don't already.)
Trust me here. I invented a honey vanilla latte and apple chai (I called it a chaider) months or years before they made them official drinks.


About the formulas: memorizing a couple formulas is much easier than going by every drink. Most lattes and related drinks follow the formula of one pump of syrup for every 4 ounces of total drink. So the talls are 3 pumps, grandes are 4, hot ventis are 5, iced ventis are 6. Some drinks deviate from this, usually by one fewer pump each. Fraps are pretty easy too; 1/1/2 for coffee-based ones, 2/3/4 for cremes, and 2/3/4 for anything with scoops of stuff. It's easier than it looks.

>>1168670

Why would it even upset you?

You're paid by the hour, not the satisfied customer... and this STUPID FUCKING BITCH doesn't know what the fuck she wants.

She's paying literally 3-5 times as much for her coffee as she SHOULD be paying.

Doesn't that mean that... regardless of how retarded a person should be... so long as they pay, they should get what they want?

If you pay a less than fair price for something, you get what you pay for.

If you pay a fair price for something, you get what you pay for.

If you pay more than something is worth, YOU SHOULD STILL GET WHAT YOU FUCKING PAID FOR.

How is that difficult to understand?

Everyone accepts the first two... but just ignores the third extrapolation.

Come the fuck on. Rip people off, and they'll feel entitled. Get a job at a place where people are ripped off, and people will feel entitled to fuck with you.

Is that right?

Of course not. It's never right to fuck with people.

How many "right" people do you know?

Most of you just put that equation together, and shit yourselves.

Most of you didn't realize that?

really? Work for a place that rips off it's customers, and underpays its employees, and you'll probably be mistreated as an employee?

Well...

There's a reason you don't understand why you're being mistreated (which is the same reason many of you are being manipulated in the first place).

You're fucking retarded.

Either understand that you have a shitty job, and help the overpaying customers accordingly, or FUCKING QUIT.

Your choice.

Free country.

Your choice.

Except you don't think it's your choice.

Which means you'll be a bitch forever.

>>1168682 tl;dr

Here's a picture for you, I think I got the general idea from skimming your wall of text.

hey green bean, do what I say or you'll get the back of my hand

Frap/Crap
Person(s) who order CRF are douches, not all douches order CRF, but most CRF drinkers are douches
To the left and right of the frap blender handle are the single sizes, tall/venti, grande. There's 2 lines, tall 1st line, then go to tall 2nd line for grande first line, then grande second line for venti first line. Now you don't have to rotate the blender lookign for the appropiate guide like a douche.

Shake the whip cream canister
grab the caramel squeeze bottle and smack the counter with it like a whip to force the caramel into the nipple portion, immediately turn upside down, all in one motion.

stand in the middle of the bar area.
we need the cups restocked, next to that the ice, get me more frap bases, both of them. After that, wipe down these shits, keep an eye out on the lobby for customers, keep the syrups filled, and don't pretend you got nothing to do. Refresh my towel juice, refill my milks, hit the rinse cycle on the machine, and don't forget to refill the beans. When you can maintain the bar area for YOURSELF then you've just lifted the burden of CARRYING YOUR DEADASS WEIGHT from the team.

Eventually you'll be a contributing member, but until then, you're a liability, don't forget it.

>>1168118
>but they don't just hire anyone. They're pretty selective.
May be where you live. The Starbucks closest to me has an emo boy, a really weird weeaboo goth girl I went to high school with, a fat alcoholic former hot topic employee, and an anorexic chick with very visible self inflicted cuts all over her arms as their employees I see most often. Some how I don't think that's what they would have ended up with if they had really been that selective.

Starbucks is supposedly a decent job. I can't say for sure since I've never worked there. The former hot topic employee I mentioned quit Starbucks for a while to go work at the local indie coffee shop for a while. She ended up coming right back to Starbucks. The local coffee shop didn't watch out for their employees like Starbucks did and over worked her to the point that she would cry sometimes. She also said that Starbucks actually trained her and the indie shop didn't. She said she would have been completely fucked working at the indie coffee shop had she not worked at Starbucks first. The only perk she got from the indie shop was she didn't have to wear a uniform.
So I can't say from personal experience but Starbucks doesn't seem like such a bad place to work to me.

take it as an opportunity to discover the endless variaty of interesting customer you are going to serve. that busy lady everyday? talk to her. that bald business man that order the same thing everytime? get to know him. that homo who spit and pee on the floor? well you better fuck them up...

see as you grew with your company you'll built up lots of interesting stories to tell. but if you treat it like a shitty job that serve like a robot then complain about how it sucks scrotums, you are going to waste a chunk of your life remember it as shit age.

>>1167994
Oh look, another rude, bitter Britt, who doesnt have a job and trolls /ck/ so they can insult americans. WOW like THATS a novelty.

>>1168690
no, his rant is far, far too populist for Rand..

>>1168914

How were you able to make it through the whole post? When I try to read that I get a feeling in my brain like I imagine it must feel when you huff glue from a plastic bag.

>>1168936
if i can make it through Atlas Shrugged and the Bible, i can make it through anything

FAP IN THE COFFEE
FAP IN THE COFFEE
FAP IN THE COFFEE
FAP IN THE COFFEE
FAP IN THE COFFEE
FAP IN THE COFFEE

POISON THE YUPPIES!
POISON THE YUPPIES!
POISON THE YUPPIES!
POISON THE YUPPIES!
POISON THE YUPPIES!
POISON THE YUPPIES!

lol at you starbucks fags who think you were real baristas

enjoy following your manuals, formulas, and machines.

i had to make do that shit from scratch, by memory, instinct, and skill.

indie coffee shop FTW

>>1168986
WOW. You can make a cup of coffee.
The new queen of /ck/, ladies and gentlemen.