I hear S’bucks is going to offer coffee for $1.00.
Have they found the Italian word for “thimble”?
(credit Jay Leno)
Only in select areas we will offer it. But we have been told that if we are ever asked we must say yess and have a discount code just for it
Really? Just a regular coffee? What size?
I’ve always liked that Starbucks has $1 kids’ drinks available.
I still want an answer to the chantico question…
As one of the freaks who orders non-fat drinks with whip, I would like to explain that I do it because it makes me feel less guilty about the fat in the whipped cream if I took some of the fat out of the milk. To phrase it better, I order it non- fat so that I can have whipped cream.
It probably doesn’t actually do much, but it makes ME feel better.
My question - what drinks, in your opinion, justify a tip?
Most coffeehouses have a tip jar.
I visit coffeehouses probably 2-3 times/wk.
Maybe 50% of the time I just get black coffee. I never tip on this, on the reasoning that the labor involved is pretty minimal (grind the beans, load up the machine with grounds + filter, turn on the water).
Probably 40% of the time I order a cappuccino, 3 shots, what would be in what I assume to be Starbucks lingo - a “triple grande cappuccino”. I usually don’t tip on this unless the dollar amount comes out to having a coin change amount less than $0.50, in which case I usually just toss the change into the tip jar because I hate change.
10% of the time I order something a bit more fancy - mocha, or something like that. I almost always drop the change from this order into the jar, and sometimes maybe a dollar bill.
I’ve always wondered - what do the barristae think of this?
At Starbucks, you’re not tipping for labor, you’re tipping for service. Starbucks employees don’t make the piddly minimum wage that restaurant servers do and they don’t make nearly as much in tips, so they generally don’t rely on their tips as income, but more of a supplement.
Additionally, Starbucks tips are pooled, so you’re not tipping the employee that served your drink, but all the employees (except managers and asst managers) that worked there that week.
My opinion is you should tip what the service was worth to you. Figure out what you deem as acceptable service and tip based on whether that service met or exceeded your standard and to what extent. That’s the best way to tell the baristas “great job and thank you” or “shape up or ship out.”
Incidentally, it takes at least 45 minutes to an hour to grind all the coffee that will be brewed and served that day. Apparently, also it’s an unpopular job and quite a few of the baristas I worked with hated being assigned that job. The ones that really hated didn’t always get the measurements proper and really couldn’t have cared less. I’d say those people didn’t deserve part of the tips we earned because people were happy with the service of other employees, but what are you gonna do?
Well of course we want all the money you are willing to give but in all honesty i have only been tipped personally on Capiccinnos because those usually require the most skill to make. Every now and then ill mix up a hot chocolate and put a little extra chocholate or mix whip in there or something and the person will enjoy it better and give me a personal tip
So, you take personal tips that never make it into the communal tip receptacle? Is this a common and acceptable practice? (It was frowned upon in my store, but on occasion a shift supervisor would look the other way.)
Seriously, can we get some more details on the $1 drinks?