Do you tip at the Starbucks drive-thru?

[Anonymous]

I used to work at Starbucks. Years ago and way before the app. People were fairly generous with their tips. The manager would pool the tips and you would get a percentage based on the hours you worked. It often added a dollar or two to each hour I worked.

I used to tip at Starbucks in person and then via the app. Now, the app doesn't seem to prompts me anymore and I don't see a space for tips (at least on my app) so I don't. I do tip when I go into independent places.

[Anonymous]

There’s no starbucks where I live, but we do have a coffee shop and I always tip. They know my car and will start my drink when I pull up. They put sprinkles on my drink even when it’s not Friday. During tourist season, they make my drink when I pull up and just put it on my tab to be paid when the line is not 20 people long. When I was sick this winter, they dropped a pound of beans off at my house. If you’re a regular anywhere, you should tip. That’s how you get the best experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:um.. yes? Every drink is hand crafted no matter how snotty you think they are. Most of us are good people, and in school. Tip your freakin barista.

Yes and you get paid a pretty decent wage to make the delicious hand crafted drinks. It’s literally your job. You get paid. I don’t understand your point?

+1.

You say hand crafted like it’s rocket science.

When in reality you get paid to pour some milk, froth it, add espresso and some flavoring, top it with whipped cream, and drizzle some syrup on it.

For $15 bucks an hour.

No tip necessary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s no starbucks where I live, but we do have a coffee shop and I always tip. They know my car and will start my drink when I pull up. They put sprinkles on my drink even when it’s not Friday. During tourist season, they make my drink when I pull up and just put it on my tab to be paid when the line is not 20 people long. When I was sick this winter, they dropped a pound of beans off at my house. If you’re a regular anywhere, you should tip. That’s how you get the best experience.

I'm fine not tipping and getting the experience of them making the drink I asked them to make and paying for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s no starbucks where I live, but we do have a coffee shop and I always tip. They know my car and will start my drink when I pull up. They put sprinkles on my drink even when it’s not Friday. During tourist season, they make my drink when I pull up and just put it on my tab to be paid when the line is not 20 people long. When I was sick this winter, they dropped a pound of beans off at my house. If you’re a regular anywhere, you should tip. That’s how you get the best experience.

I'm fine not tipping and getting the experience of them making the drink I asked them to make and paying for it.

+1

What the pp described has zero value to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:um.. yes? Every drink is hand crafted no matter how snotty you think they are. Most of us are good people, and in school. Tip your freakin barista.

Yes and you get paid a pretty decent wage to make the delicious hand crafted drinks. It’s literally your job. You get paid. I don’t understand your point?

Starbucks is also paying for your school among other good benefits for a job that has minimal requirements. As long as you're breathing, you can work at Starbucks.

Take a seat.

[Anonymous]

You need to tip your Barista in cafe or drive through. Tips are a part of a starbucks baristas total pay.

[Anonymous]

Coffee at Starbucks is eye-wateringly expensive. No way I would tip on top of that.

[Anonymous]

No way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s no starbucks where I live, but we do have a coffee shop and I always tip. They know my car and will start my drink when I pull up. They put sprinkles on my drink even when it’s not Friday. During tourist season, they make my drink when I pull up and just put it on my tab to be paid when the line is not 20 people long. When I was sick this winter, they dropped a pound of beans off at my house. If you’re a regular anywhere, you should tip. That’s how you get the best experience.

This is...completely different than going into Starbucks periodically. I think it's nice, and this is not the experience that Starbucks or any other chain offers.

[Anonymous]

I stopped at the Starbucks in my grocery store the other day, ordered 2 drinks and 2 cake pops. Barista asked me if I wanted my $3 change back or not!! I was so flummoxed I said it was fine, but I thought it was completely bizarre. I will usually put a dollar in the tip jar, especially since covid, but wth?!

[Anonymous]

I tip them always because the one I go to they are beyond kind.

They know every repeat customer's name. They have protected minorities when Trumpers were god awful during the pandemic and still are. They have gone out of their way to be kind humans always.

Yes, I go every day so I know the ones at mine.

[Anonymous]

I am not 100% sure that the barista didn't have several other reasons to ask you that, yet, you only see one.
Nobody wants to deal with coins. I would've asked only dollars back, not the change.

[Anonymous]

Tipping at Starbucks for their "overpriced" coffee defeats the purpose of paying extra for a product so that workers can be paid a living wage. WTF is wrong with people - this is why we can't have nice things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tipping at Starbucks for their "overpriced" coffee defeats the purpose of paying extra for a product so that workers can be paid a living wage. WTF is wrong with people - this is why we can't have nice things.

Well until that happens, the "overpriced" coffee profits are going straight to the company. They could raise salaries right now, but they aren't.

Of course we should tip. If we are fortunate enough in this world to be able to buy $5 coffees, we are fortunate enough to give a tip to those people who can't do it as much as we can.