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Look, I don't have any type of problem with Starbucks. I really, honestly don't. I haven't had any Starbucks in a while - well, the last time I had something from Starbucks I was on my way to Matt's for his family's picnic - we stopped at a rest stop on the turnpike.
And yeah, I had this reflective moment where I was like, ah, I like those little Starbucks double shots in the can drinks, and now Starbucks has a double shot on ice in, you know, fresh form, too, and I wondered how long that had been a available, and then I thought about how I never see Starbucks stuff anymore cause there is no Starbucks on the island, and since I don't drive, I pretty much don't leave the island, so how would I know what Starbucks has and doesn't have?
Then I just left it alone and drank my caffeine :P
But Wawa and Starbucks seem to be fighting because Wawa never has the Starbucks double shots anymore, but they're all over the boardwalk and the corner stores and stuff... anyway. Moving on.
I kind of resent having to learn Starbucks-ian in order to make people the drinks they want. "Triple grande dulce de leche frappucino" isn't supposed to mean anything to me - THAT'S NOT ON OUR MENU! "Venti half-caf non-fat vanilla latte" isn't on our menu either... in this store, we have small, medium, and large. My not knowing what the hell size "venti" is supposed to be is NOT an indication that I'm stupid - it simply means that I don't frequent Starbucks so often that I have their menu memorized!
In fact, the first time someone ordered a "venti" I was like, you want... the 20 oz cup? (Cause venti is Italian for twenty...) and the person was like, no, the venti, do you understand me?
"Triple grande" apparently means a medium espresso drink made with an extra espresso shot. We have that on our menu. It says "available in small, medium, and large - add an extra shot for 45 cents!" Imagine that.
I'm also getting pretty fed up with this one woman who works at one of the nearby stores who always gets her cappucino with extra foam - I make it with extra foam, hand it to her, she takes off the lid, looks inside, hands it back, and says, "excuse me, this was supposed to have extra foam." AND IT DOES, LADY! REMEMBER, THAT'S HOW YOU ORDERED IT?
And while I'm talking about people who can't read menus, we have this thing where we do free refills on coffee. Coffee. Not everything. Just the coffee. The only people who really take advantage of this are people who work on the boardwalk - they come in for refills all the time. Every so often someone else will bring their cup in for a refill. But it's pretty rare - most people don't drink hot coffee out on the beach in the hot sun, or even iced coffee. So no, if you bring me back your "triple grande nonfat vanilla latte" cup, it does NOT say you get a free refill. "Grande" is also not a size on our menu. Which you should know, since you read it, or, wait, you only read the part about "free refills."
Fun times, guys. Fun times.
And yeah, I had this reflective moment where I was like, ah, I like those little Starbucks double shots in the can drinks, and now Starbucks has a double shot on ice in, you know, fresh form, too, and I wondered how long that had been a available, and then I thought about how I never see Starbucks stuff anymore cause there is no Starbucks on the island, and since I don't drive, I pretty much don't leave the island, so how would I know what Starbucks has and doesn't have?
Then I just left it alone and drank my caffeine :P
But Wawa and Starbucks seem to be fighting because Wawa never has the Starbucks double shots anymore, but they're all over the boardwalk and the corner stores and stuff... anyway. Moving on.
I kind of resent having to learn Starbucks-ian in order to make people the drinks they want. "Triple grande dulce de leche frappucino" isn't supposed to mean anything to me - THAT'S NOT ON OUR MENU! "Venti half-caf non-fat vanilla latte" isn't on our menu either... in this store, we have small, medium, and large. My not knowing what the hell size "venti" is supposed to be is NOT an indication that I'm stupid - it simply means that I don't frequent Starbucks so often that I have their menu memorized!
In fact, the first time someone ordered a "venti" I was like, you want... the 20 oz cup? (Cause venti is Italian for twenty...) and the person was like, no, the venti, do you understand me?
"Triple grande" apparently means a medium espresso drink made with an extra espresso shot. We have that on our menu. It says "available in small, medium, and large - add an extra shot for 45 cents!" Imagine that.
I'm also getting pretty fed up with this one woman who works at one of the nearby stores who always gets her cappucino with extra foam - I make it with extra foam, hand it to her, she takes off the lid, looks inside, hands it back, and says, "excuse me, this was supposed to have extra foam." AND IT DOES, LADY! REMEMBER, THAT'S HOW YOU ORDERED IT?
And while I'm talking about people who can't read menus, we have this thing where we do free refills on coffee. Coffee. Not everything. Just the coffee. The only people who really take advantage of this are people who work on the boardwalk - they come in for refills all the time. Every so often someone else will bring their cup in for a refill. But it's pretty rare - most people don't drink hot coffee out on the beach in the hot sun, or even iced coffee. So no, if you bring me back your "triple grande nonfat vanilla latte" cup, it does NOT say you get a free refill. "Grande" is also not a size on our menu. Which you should know, since you read it, or, wait, you only read the part about "free refills."
Fun times, guys. Fun times.
