A lot of people still think venti hot teas with one bag are the same price as a grande. Actually, I'd say the majority of Starbucks customers do because every time I charge them correctly for a venti tea they flip out. They get so uppity, I hate them! At first I'd just accept their anger because I'm non-confrontational. But from now on I am taking them to task. NO, it's changed ahole. The phrase "A sucker's born every minute" is so true. They're paying an obscene amount for something that would taste literally exactly the same had you made it at home. **** you tea drinkers!!
And everyone who asks for decaf tea. When have you ever heard of anyone getting heart palpitations from a pussyass cup o tea? Maybe I'm bitter cause I've developed a resistance to caffeine since working here. But yeah, **** tea.
Tea-related freakouts
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Oh and I hate when people ask for super specific teas. No we do not have any jasmine, ginger, or chaigreen (srsly someone demanded this) tea! You'll take the tea selection you're presented with and LIKE it!
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I love it when people ask for tea, and when I ask them what kind, they say "just regular tea." If you want regular tea, spend two dollars less and go get some Lipton from the gas station. You will not notice the difference. It doesn't bother me; most of the time they just get Awake. I mostly just don't understand why they come to Starbucks for insanely expensive tea when they don't really want it.
I also love when people ask for "full leaf tea" as if that were a flavor. I had one lady get upset at me when I asked her what kind, and she replied, "FULL LEAF." Um. All of them are full leaf. What kind?
The kind of person that thinks leaf-flavored tea is tasty probably also buys Chocolate Smooth Move laxative tea and thinks it's good.Posted 2 years ago # -
there's a couple that always comes in and the woman gets a venti awake latte with one tea bag , skim with the splenda shyt bla bla. she demanded i charged her for a tall, and was angry the first time i rang her and did a venti. now she demands a grande.
i mean technically with the venti size, you're getting more milk. but i won't argue with miss hillbilly
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oooh. I hate it when people get offended cause I ask for specifications on tea. There's no such thing as "regular tea" and we don't serve Lipton.
Also, I'm from the south and live in the north, and I find the black iced tea to be unpalatable, yet, there's these people who come in and chug it. We have a brigade of girls who order a venti NO WATER black iced tea. Which makes me think, "Thanks! Now I have to brew even MORE black iced tea, AND we're in the middle of a rush!"
Also, we have a few **** heads who want lemonade in their tea, but don't want to get charged for it, because they just want a small amount. If I gotta add it, you're gonna get charged. OH and ESPECIALLY if it's a "refill"
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I've never understood serving tea in a coffee store in the first place. I've tasted some of the teas and can't tell a difference between Awake and Earl Grey. Now between black and green I can. However, it's a coffee company and they should just open StarTazo Tea Stores. It won't be long before they'll be making us serve veggie burgers and soy french fries!!
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I HATE the people who just want a "splash" of lemonade! I refuse to budge and refuse to charge them for just the tea...mostly just cause I feel like it and they're **** =) Yet there's a really nice guy who comes in every other day and orders an iced venti sweetened BTL and I just charge him for an iced tall BT. Maybe try being nice to your barista sometimes, idiots.
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I hate it when people order an iced version of a hot tea, like an iced Orange Blossom.
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You know what, if their nice to me and ask me how I'm doing before I ask them, maybe, just maybe will I let you get away with your little sbux scam.
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I'm reaching my breaking point on this tea bs. I charged this crusty ol khunt correctly for a venti tea and she insisted that it was wrong (bc other people have been doing it incorrectly). She was basically calling me a **** liar so I said "Well that's incorrect but I'll charge you for a grande now." I will **** eviscerate the next **** who tries to pull this!!!!!
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I have a question about tea. I was in DT and ordered a Trenta 12p cl no H2O BT. It tasted like it had about 3p of cl in it with water. I go in and kindly ask if they could remake it, no problem. The new drink is fine. My question is this, what would cause a tea if anything, to taste one way and taste another way even though they are made exactly the same way? I am really curious about this. Also they offered me a recovery coupon which I declined, because I am not that type of person. But they look at me weird when I deline the coupon when they offer it to me, and it has been a few times over the years. All mistakes and I have never freaked out on you guys. So is it so bad to turn down a recovery coupon?
I don't think of this as a freakout, just the most apporopriate thread I could think of. Thanks.
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Nah, it's in good taste to turn down a recovery coupon if you had them remake it. It probably brightens their day a smidge, too, if you weren't yelling and yowling at them.
Since the original came out of a DT, they probably heard it/entered it/just made it wrong. It happens, especially when it's busy or the DT barista is worn out and exhausted, so on and so forth..
.. also, damnit cruisy, ordering trentas kills our tea supply. Makes us have to brew more, which is why I'm so glad we don't have trentas around here. Seven ventis in a row is bad enough, though.
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I'm guessing that a Trenta is about half of a tea pitcher?
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Haha. I guess. I don't know the exact measurement, but when we brew it, a single batch is two liters.
A venti is 26 ounces, so if we divide that up by thirds not counting syrup, it's generally twelve ounces tea, twelve ounces water, twelve ounces ice.
So, the tea for an iced venti unsweetened black tea is a third liter. I can only assume a trenta is about a half liter.
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SO IN CONCLUSION or whatevz, a trenta no water black tea is about a liter of tea. I got distracted by food. Omnomnomnomnom food that isn't sbux pastries..
.. which .. yeah. You're right. A no water trenta is half a brewed tea pitcher.
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Cruisyeyes, I think we should make you an honorary partner. ALL IN FAVOR?
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AYE.
May as well, he knows of our great struggle for crappy wages.
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Aww ****. I can't wait for the "4 Iced Trenta No Classic No Water" orders. We better get familiar with brewing tea.
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Toss a big ole bag in the Workhorse Pitcher (TM!), fill it up with a liter of hot water, wait four minutes, discard the bag and fill with a liter of cold water. Bam tea.
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Am I really the only one who thinks it's ridiculous to charge tea by the size of the cup? We give away hot water for free! FOR FREE! I hate Starbucks so much.
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Nah. Hot tea prices are pretty ridix. Back before Simphony, IIRC prices used to be by the teabag basically. Now they're by the cup size for the most part.
For your cool regulars, and I suggest using this sparingly, but you can always befoul the system by doing a cup of water + add tea bag. I haven't tested this out, though, so I'm uncertain if it'll give you the chance to pick WHICH teabag, given our inventory debacle and such. I suppose for inventory purposes, the best you could pull off is, say, a short add teabag china green tips and that'll count the two bags for a venti. Just be clandestine about it, because I'm going to surmise that the ~three bucks we charge for a venti tea is about 90% profit.
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Nah. Hot tea prices are pretty ridix. Back before Simphony, IIRC prices used to be by the teabag basically. Now they're by the cup size for the most part.
For your cool regulars, and I suggest using this sparingly, but you can always befoul the system by doing a cup of water + add tea bag. I haven't tested this out, though, so I'm uncertain if it'll give you the chance to pick WHICH teabag, given our inventory debacle and such. I suppose for inventory purposes, the best you could pull off is, say, a short add teabag china green tips and that'll count the two bags for a venti. Just be clandestine about it, because I'm going to surmise that the ~three bucks we charge for a venti tea is about 90% profit.
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I just want to point them to the retail wall full o' $7 tea tins and say GTFO, boil your own water and stop bothering me.
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here's a tea-related freakout
on my first day on register in the middle of a rush someone ordered a hot tazo tea and i, being 4'11", could hardly reach that particular teabag, which hadn't been fully stocked, so i thought "hey, maybe if i tilt the tea holder -slightly-..."
and the tea holder falls off the shelf and there are tea bags all over the ground
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There is a particular regular customer at my store that makes me wish starbucks would take tea off the menu.
She comes in everyday and orders a Trenta passion tea, no water, no ice, and a cup of ice on the side.
She will then also, before leaving the drive thru, poor her passion tea into the cup of ice, and the remainder into one of her own ghetto cups and ask for a refill while still in the drive thru!!Then almost daily, she comes back thru saying we messed up her drink! She always says we forget to sweeten it, after drinking over half of it really you barely noticed if that is true?!?!
And then sits and tries to talk to you for 20 minutes about how starbucks shouldn't use the tazo tea and should switch to whatever brand it is she likes...wtf lady tell somebody who cares!
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The other day A lady and her friends came up to the register and ordered a tall awake tea, in a grande cup, with extra water.
I charged her a grande.
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Haha. COLD. But, you caught them trying to pull a fast one on you. Once again, tea discounts to nice customers, but that right there is a shennanigan, unless she hasn't realized that for the last like year and a half we've had all the teas in full-leaf and the bags-per-cup changed.
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Its funny because I live in an upscale town and all these yuppies come in and out with their expensive cars and expensive clothes and their heavy **** credit cards. You know the ones, the black ones that feel like they're made of solid steel, and you have to have a credit score of like 1,000,000 to have one. And then they try to cheat you out of their $5 drinks.
Seriously?!?! There's McDonalds right next door, and 2 gas stations. You can get a cheaper cup of whatever you want there.
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Oh tea people, they come in,I am so sick (who cares and should you be here) I think not, keep your germs to yourself!! What tea should I get that will make me feel better, if I where an md would I been working here? Green Tea with honey now go home!
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^ ahahha
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