I used to use a reusable cup all the time at Starbucks, but they stopped allowing them during Covid. OP, I also prefer my own insulated cup to their paper one!

BUT! I read recently that they're bringing it back as part of an effort to get greener.
Here's an article:
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/15/starbucks-unveils-new-plans-to-eliminate-single-use-cups-encourage-reusable-mugs.html

Anonymous wrote:So you held up the drive through line and then went and held things up inside too?

There was nobody behind me. I didn't hold up the line because I wasn't waiting for a drink. I was the one stuck behind a car.
I didn't hold anything up inside. You realize getting drip coffee is about the quickest drink order one can get at Starbucks, right?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They stopped allowing you to use a personal cup in 2020 COVID. I used to always use reusable cups at Starbucks, I would bring a clean cup from my home and have them fill it. Since we can’t use our own cups anymore, I know Loco go to Starbucks. All the Starbucks cups being sent to the landfill sicken me. I buy my coffee and brew my own

The hot drinks are served in a paper cup. It breaks down very fast.

Disposable coffee cups typically have a plastic resin, or polyethylene, lining. Polyethylene is a petroleum-based plastic, requiring more than 231,000 barrels of oil to line our paper cups every single year.

So you held up the drive through line and then went and held things up inside too?

Anonymous wrote:They stopped allowing you to use a personal cup in 2020 COVID. I used to always use reusable cups at Starbucks, I would bring a clean cup from my home and have them fill it. Since we can’t use our own cups anymore, I know Loco go to Starbucks. All the Starbucks cups being sent to the landfill sicken me. I buy my coffee and brew my own

The hot drinks are served in a paper cup. It breaks down very fast.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They stopped allowing you to use a personal cup in 2020 COVID. I used to always use reusable cups at Starbucks, I would bring a clean cup from my home and have them fill it. Since we can’t use our own cups anymore, I know Loco go to Starbucks. All the Starbucks cups being sent to the landfill sicken me. I buy my coffee and brew my own

This is Starbucks policy for the past 2 years? I've been going to my local coffee shop where they happily take my reusable cup, so I guess I never noticed. Unfortunately moved recently and there's no local coffee shop.

I guess it's time for me to buy a coffee maker.

Anonymous wrote:They stopped allowing you to use a personal cup in 2020 COVID. I used to always use reusable cups at Starbucks, I would bring a clean cup from my home and have them fill it. Since we can’t use our own cups anymore, I know Loco go to Starbucks. All the Starbucks cups being sent to the landfill sicken me. I buy my coffee and brew my own

This is Starbucks policy for the past 2 years? I've been going to my local coffee shop where they happily take my reusable cup, so I guess I never noticed. Unfortunately moved recently and there's no local coffee shop.

They stopped allowing you to use a personal cup in 2020 COVID. I used to always use reusable cups at Starbucks, I would bring a clean cup from my home and have them fill it. Since we can’t use our own cups anymore, I know Loco go to Starbucks. All the Starbucks cups being sent to the landfill sicken me. I buy my coffee and brew my own

Anonymous wrote:Total thing of the past

I don't even know what this means. I just don't want to be drinking my coffee out of plastic lined paper.

Anonymous wrote:Have you heard of Covid?

Nobody was wearing a mask in there except me.

That’s so 2019.

Total thing of the past

wait, people actually take reusable cups to the store? That’s gross op. I would have done the same thing

Have you heard of Covid?

Drive thru: Um so we can't do your cup in the drive thru.

Me: Ok, I"ll just come inside.

Me: I'd like a tall pike place. *puts reusable coffee cup down*

Barista: Do you want it in this cup?

Me: Yes please.

Barista: *come back with paper cup full of coffee, dumps as much as possible into the reusable cup*

Me: *mouth agape...*

Barista: Uh, here *gestures at my cup which is absolutely full to the brim and cannot be closed*