Is it just me or did the quality of the baristas at Starbucks take a serious nosedive?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know who still pays 10 dollars for Starbucks, I stopped years a go and make my own

Yeah, it’s a mystery.

Some of us have ten dollars. (Also what drink are you getting for $10, porky?)

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I have worked at both Starbucks AND McDonald's (and cleaned bathrooms at both, lol). I worked in the 90's/early 2000's when food quality was better and the process was less automated. Now the baristas just have to push a button and much of the food at McDonald's is microwaved.

At Starbucks they used to emphasize us making the customer feel welcome. Now that everything is mobile, I can't imagine the baristas have the time with all the online orders they need to fill. The tips we used to get (they were pooled) added at least a dollar an hour onto my hourly rate. I doubt people are tipping as much now. The app used to ask you if you wanted to tip but now I think you have to really go back into the app to do it.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know who still pays 10 dollars for Starbucks, I stopped years a go and make my own

Yeah, it’s a mystery.

Some of us have ten dollars. (Also what drink are you getting for $10, porky?)

DP. What the heck is your problem, Miss Nasty Pants? Be polite and clean up your potty mouth. No wonder people don't like you.

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Anonymous wrote:You're expecting an awful lot out of people who aren't being paid a livable wage....

my friends 17yo daughter worked there and made $15 an hour BEFORE tips. Thats not bad money.

$15 an hour is minimum wage and people rarely tip. My son averages $1 a day in tips. Starbucks has no mechanism for adding tips to credit cards and most people don’t have cash.

$1 a shift? No way. I always see people leaving cash tips and you can also tip on their app. Whenever I tip $2 cash they act like they don't even care, i.e. they are used to it. Which is fine, but I'm just sharing that to make a point that it's far from unusual for people to tip.

What do you expect them to do, an interpretive dance?

it is also likely a tip share so they collect all the tips for the day divide it by number of employees x hours worked and then divide by that. so your $2 for 8 people working a total of 80 hours (5am-9pm is 16 hours 430 is open shift likely and 930 is close so 17 to cover) is miniscule