Im not sure if anyone has ever worked in a Target Starbucks, or a Starbucks inside another store. However at my Target Starbucks we rant even allowed to take tips! You guys think your lifes suck, try working somewhere that forces you to be extreamly nice to every single customer, still have a Crappyhour, and deal with an extra four managers. I have been offered a twenty dollar tip once and could not take it! They have a camera right in front of the counter and if we even take a 5 cent tip then we are fired. I wanted to know if anyone else on the site was in the same situation? However they do TRY to compensate for us not being able to take tips but I still think I could make more with tips. Is there any way to make Target allow us to get tips? Someone also told me that if you work at a real Starbucks then you get free coffee, free coffee beans and other free crap. Is this true?
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Posted 12 months ago #
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There are a lot of things licensed partners don't get. No bennies, no markouts and I don't think you have an unlimited partner beverage policy either, right?
The folks up at my tarbucks (haha, I like that ;) ) always look really disgruntled.
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Well I am still fairly new to Tarbucks, but you are right. We don't get any mark outs or any free drinks. However all of the other workers steal the drinks or give them out at really discounted prices. Another thing, we always run out of cups!!! We had zero cold cups for over a week. That meant no Crapichinos, and no iced teas. So my manager made me work every single day that week so I had to deal with the bit ching customers because they couldn't get their precious drink. Fu ck Tarbuck.
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I worked at a Target Starbucks for two months before I applied to an actual Starbucks. Best decision ever. You should probably do the same. The benefits are really good and the customers aren't as bad usually.
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What is the average pay at a real Starbucks? And how much do you usually make in tips?
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Minimum wage lol, but I get 40-50 in tips every week (on average). I work a fair amount of hours though.
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They started me out at 10.50 but we don't get any tips. I get at least ten people tring to give me a tip and can't take any.
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You also get raises more often at an actual Starbucks than you do at Target.
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You won't make more than 50 in tips each week. That bumps your pay up only a little more than a dollar per hour if you're full time. And I don't know where you are, but here the corporate Starbucks start at minimum wage.
Which is why I stay at my licensed store. Even though I don't get tips anymore. :/
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i don't think it's fair to say it's $1~ everywhere. i've worked in stores where tips are nearly $5/hr.
edit: wanted to add, just look at the thread dsharpz linked to.
you people should use the search option... it's pretty useful sometimes...Posted 12 months ago # -
I'd say, in order to make more than $1 p/h you'd have to find a store that was either extremely busy... the store where I made $50 per week in tips did an average $5,000 in sales every day (and understaffed). Or a store with really, really generous regulars. We didn't have regulars so I'd say the customers tipped the stock standard amount which Starbucks customers would tend to tip. And they tend to be stingy. Also, from others here I've heard mostly a range of $30-50 per week.
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Tips completely depend on where you are/what your customers are like. We get mostly tourists and 90% of our tips are pennies, nickels and dimes that people leave because they can't be bothered to take a few cents in change.
The most I've ever gotten for one week - while working full time during the busiest time of year - was $20. Lowest was $2.50. $5 every week is average when I'm working part time.
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I also work in a tourist area and ours avg $1.05/hr. For me, that's approx $35 per wk.
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Tarbucks, I too work in a Starbucks located in Target and I feel your pain! My first thread on this forum was about the same thing. Everything about Tarbucks is BS, from having 4 managers to one person closes. The only benefit is being able to cross train in different areas of Target. It is really easy to work full time because of the volume of workers and the number of call outs. I don't know if I would have the same ease picking up hours at a corporate Starbucks so for now I'm staying where I at until I start to feel miserable.
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@2Hot2Handle: you'd get as many hours as you want, working corporate stores in New York City. I'd work the bare minimum of 20 if my SM wished it, but nooo... she's got me stuck with close to 40 each week.
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If you get cross trained do you get paid more? I was thinking of asking to get cross trained in Food ave, but will they pay me more if I ask? Right now I am a cashier and a Starbucks employee. Any help?
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2hot2handle: I'm not in NYC (nowhere freakin' close to it!), and I've never had a problem picking up hours.
Most weeks I'm scheduled 25 hours or so, and I end up working 33-37. All of the people who work for Starbucks are either in school, have second jobs, or have a life outside of work. If you make it known that you're the go-to person if they need shifts covered, you'll get close to 40 each week.
Edit: and the free coffee each week is pretty sweet, along with the free food from nightly mark-outs.
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Tarbucks, I am pretty sure that no matter where you work in Target you would still get paid the same amount of cash that you would receive at Starbucks. That is the way it works at my location. I'd recommend asking your manager or your HR manager. If they don't know the answer then they should be able to direct you to someone who does. fyi, Food Ave is tedious work. 75% of your time is spent washing dishes or having someone yell at you because the pizza doesn't taste right or because the chicken fingers aren't warm enough. And pray to God your dishwasher doesn't break, which occurs regularly at Target because the dishwasher is shared between businesses. But what can you do except roll those sleeves up and get to hand washing hundreds of pots and pans?! At least you're only dealing with drinks at Starbucks(we don't have sandwiches[yay!]). I am speaking from personal experience from working at several different Targets. Things may be different at your location; You'll never know until you spend a few days working there. Yup, just something to keep in mind. At the end of the day, a job is a job. Good luck!
edit: Thanks for the heads up, guys.
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Food Ave and Starbucks are at the same pay level, if you're trained in other areas, you get the pay level of whichever one you work the most at.
For example, if you're cashier and Starbucks, but you work two days Starbucks and three days cashier, you get cashier's wage (which is less than Starbucks)
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At the licensed store I worked at in a childrens hospital, we didn't get the tips, they were given to pastoral for various things. But on the upside we were paid really awesome wages thru the hospital and even better benefits. The only reason I even applied was the opportunity to transfer departments after being employed at the hospital for six months, which i did and now I am a secretary on the night shift and have four days off a week :)
lol and I WISH i had experienced these dishwashers you guys speak of...they are all washed by hand in my old bux.
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tacofan666: Most of our stores use a "Hobart LXiH dishmachine" which cleans and sanitizes our dishes, anything that comes into contact with food/liquid products.
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You know you've been working at Starbucks too long when you know the Hobart's model number off the top of your head. :)
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yea one of our leads (equivalent to a shift or whatever) told me about those because he had corporate sbux experience. I liked the name HOBART, and would have killed to have one :( but nope all washed by hand. Towards the end of my career at that sbux, lazy co-workers stopped scrubbing the dishes and everything got REALLY dingy. Like powdery coating on everything. so gross. I did the dishes once a week and had to use bleach on everything bc the rest of the week, lazy incompetent coworkers just dipped them in soap/water/sanitizer, never actually scrubbing.
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@talldirtychai: I actually came across the "STORE CLEANLINESS AND EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE" manual today and managed to take photos of a lot of pages (corporate espionage teehee). This information is still extremely helpful. I plan to post it online when I get the chance.
@tacofan666: I'm OCD about dishwashing. If I see a crumb, discoloration, or speck of food on something, I'm using the blue dishwashing detergent and scrubbing it by hand before I sanitize it. I'd rather the Hobart get all soapy and filled with foam, than have chunks of food floating in the water.
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on the flipside, my SM used the wrong soap to refill the machine a few weeks ago, which resulted in a good hour and a half of foamy soapy bubbles vomiting from the sanitizer all during the morning rush.
fun times.
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@2hot2handle we are getting sandwiches in the next couple of months. ahhh
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misquote because i'm drunk "corporate starbucks customers aren't as bad as licensed store blah blah blah"
....um....
**** EVERYONE who walks in at open.
Grumpy "I haven't had my coffee yet so it's okay if I treat you like ****" motherfuhckers
Excuse me.
I'm a PERSON just like you and its FIVE IN THE FRUCKING MORNING. P1ss off.
Posted 11 months ago # -
@myusername nuuuu! I will hunt down whoever made that decision and spank him. That's not happening. Nooo freaking way.
I'd imagine that all Starbucks customers are rude idiots, it doesn't matter the location.
Posted 11 months ago # -
I work at a Tarbucks. Maybe I just have a good manager, but it's not bad. I wish we had freebies and markouts, and I was surprised at how many customers were upset about the fact they couldn't tip. We do sell sandwiches at our store. The biggest pain in the rump to me is that our cooler/freezers are on the opposite corner of the store and it gets old trotting back and forth...
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