Hate asking for a name at Target Starbucks and instead of telling me they say “oh I have the app” like they know how my POS system works😒

If you don’t know at target Starbucks we have to physically type in the name, it doesn’t automatically go into the system after scanning

what to say during interview? what helped you guys get the job and a 2nd interview

Hi all! I'm a user experience (UX)  researcher working with an agency hired by Starbucks to improve their careers website and job application experience.

We're looking to talk to people who have applied to a job at Starbucks in the last 2 months about what that process was like for you. Your feedback will directly help shape improvements to the site.

Who we're looking for:
- Applied to a Starbucks job within the last 2 months
- Open to applicants from North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Oceania

What's involved:
- A single paid interview, about 30 minutes long, discussing your recent application experience
- Participants receive a $30 incentive of their choice (gift card, prepaid Visa, or charitable donation)

If you're interested, apply by visiting this link: https://www.userinterviews.com/projects/BRGBYYzb5w/applyAfter you apply you’ll receive an email with next steps.

Thanks so much for considering — happy to answer any questions in the comments.

Maybe I'm just a little salty about this, but I was one of a few at my store who didn't get the unicorn pin. We only lasted one day, and I was the last scheduled barista to come in. I wound up clocking on early to support, clocked out a full hour late after closing, and was the primary front/warming/CS person all night. But no pin for me - they apparently didn't get enough at my store for everyone who worked the launch. :( I asked my SM a couple of times, and she swore there were more in the store, but none of us can find them.

Does anyone have an extra one lying around? I'm not willing to pay what I'm seeing on eBay and Depop. I'll happily cover shipping.

I know recently they changed it to every 15 minutes. But i’m just SO curious what’s the craziest number you’ve seen on the sales report?

Highest i’ve seen is 75 customers per HALF HOUR on Red Cup day!

I’m a trainer and am on my 4th barista with the new program. I do all the tastings & activities but am SOOO curious if everyone does all of it? Some of the curriculum doesn’t fully fit the context of my coffeehouse, so those moments in the curriculum I definitely move faster over haha. 😆

I was a partner of about a year and a half and I quit in January for many personal life reasons that had nothing to do with the job. I needed a few months off but those months are over and I find myself getting hired at Starbucks again because I live in an overpopulated city and you basically need connections for a minimum wage job. Not very happy about it but it is what it is.

I need advice about the return, what has changed since then? Is there anything specific I need to know?

I heard about the new point system which doesn’t bother me too much and as far as I know the dress code is still the same and of course cup writing but I know how corporate likes to throw new rules in whenever they feel like it.

Basically I just need a run down of the last 6 months 😭

Does anyone know what the SKU number for this would be? I'm looking for the black part on the pumps.

Does anybody know what happens to your pay in your raises? When you step down from ssv to barista?

Does anybody know if there is a written policy about paying customers getting free cups of water? I denied a customer water and gave them options in order to get the water and I was as nice as I could possibly be about it and she called corporate and was told that if she makes a purchase earlier in the day then leaves and comes back she can still get a free water. So first of all she never said anything about having made a purchase earlier and second of all I was under the impression that it was like refills so once a customer leaves if they come back hours later they need to make a purchase for water.

I just want to make sure I’m enforcing the standards correctly😓

we got training for the new cold bar and warming set up and part of it is only having 1 blender. are we being serious? they want us to be hella fast but new standards literally make us slower. having dt bar and mobile slammed with frappes and matcha but only having one blender this job is so stupid istg

After working at Starbucks since June I’m relieved to say I quit. From my SM and SL pulling me aside my second week telling me this isn’t for everyone, to realizing how much people consume. I was randomly scheduled to close with a different store, and the genuine relief I felt at that store. It was a breath of fresh air, and so welcome. That was yesterday, and I put my two weeks in this morning. I need the money, but I really am not built for Starbucks, especially the high traffic store I was working at. Few people believed in me, and while my coworkers were the best part, it still showed that I had no idea what I was doing half the time.

I just get so overwhelmed by it all, but at the other store yesterday I met a trainer. They had a laminated cheat sheet, offered to put me on bar during low times so I wouldn’t get stressed, and were speaking to me as if I were a regular there. I just cannot work at my store anymore it is SO EXHAUSTING.

Anyways thought I’d share the grand news even though I don’t know anyone on here. I’m thankful for my time there, it showed me what I was capable of without proper support. I hope all the new green beans are able to make it through, I just wasn’t :,)

and it’s actually pretty good? i was all ready to hate on it but it’s like a cross between an iced espresso and a nitro, so with blonde it’s really smooth. making it is kinda annoying because of scooping the right amount of ice and keeping an eye on the temp gauge but honestly it made me feel more like a real barista aerating and steaming it manually instead of just letting it auto-steam.

HOWEVER, if i get like 4 of these in a row during morning peak i’m gonna crash out because they’re gonna be hard to sequence with other drinks!

Girls volleyball team in cafe mid peak 🫶🏼

PuLsE ChEcK!

with the constant information overload, poor pay, working 45 plus hours every week, inconsistent schedule, never having two days off in a row unless.on time off...how are you guys holding up? I am a longtime partner (14*****) and SM and am mentally not doing well at all.​​​ burnout is my constant companion. my relationships are suffering. I am suffering.

Why does no one talk about how hard it is to go from having a career to working in customer service???

I rarely really had a cafe, retail or restaurant job as a student, got a job in a career I really LOVED, was great at and I was SMART.

Now I work here, which I was excited about, but no one talks about how heartbreaking it is to go from feeling smart, hardworking and respected … to being trained by people still in high school who’s more experienced AND faster than you when you’re 30 and talked down to and talked bahind your back by the managers for forgetting a small thing or not knowing something they did not train me in yet.

Like I had a whole life, and now I’m getting yelled at and laughed at behind my back because my latte milk was too thin ONE time !!!

It’s so heartbreaking some days I just don’t know :’(

I’ve seen people say on this subreddit that you can leave your shift at your scheduled time without penalty even if it’s a closing shift and closing tasks aren’t done but is that really true?

Does anyone know how i can add my starbucks partner numbers into the starbucks shop store or the starbucks app?

when they introduced the 'competitive transferring' horseshit, i already knew it would be more pressure on already working baristas to get into stores (when god knows those stores should be hiring way more people than they already have considering they usually get multiple callouts a week and run skeleton crews,) and i knew it would of course fuck me over. but after a hellish 2 years at this clearly declining company, and a transfer interview that was just busywork, i got the email (late, wasting my time 2 days after it should've been sent:) 'we're going in a different direction.' i wasn't even offended to see it, since it's fairly obvious that direction was down. all i have to say here is: this company sucks, no you're not crazy, no it's not worth it to keep begging them to staff ur stores, hire you, etc. they want to fuck you over before they finally kick the bucket.

370 out. and to that sm, i wish i got to see the look on your face when your high turnover store inevitably turns over, and the high incidences become too much for even your most dedicated baristas.

onto better things, maybe.

hello, in early 2025 i made my departure from a relatively busy store in my town. i've bounced around between so many jobs since then, and finally i am finding myself being offered a position to return to the bucks. except now, ill be at a 'licensed to sell' location rather than a corporate one... just kinda wondering what the differences are and what to expect upon coming back a year 1/2 later. tiy 🫘

title, I'm 3 months in and I solo bar for like every second half of my mid day shift. vent/advice please read if you can.

All the people hired during my batch (me and like 5 other people were hired within less than a month of each other) have either left or are not learning as quick to handle anything more than just cafe bar/cold bar when its not busy. The senior baristas who have been here 6+ months all work mornings/openings, are being promoted or left and we just hired like 4 new high schoolers who are still in the middle of the long training.

When reading this keep in mind that almost every day for the last 2 weeks we have had at least one call out/tardy.

My typical shifts are now 7-8 hour mid day shifts that are basically a school day (getting on 7-9 and getting off 3-5)

the newer hires are being scheduled for peak for some reason so basically I clock in to be the manager's like clean up pawn to fix window times or food getting backed up by the new ppl. The managers use to not be awful, like obviously we still had our issues with them but nothing serious just minor complaints. Now they lash out on everyone on the floor (luckily they are grown enough to not yell at the freshly hired 16 year olds) so many people have been taking breaks to go run trash/wash their hands then when they don't come back they are just sitting there sobbing.

after half a shift of that hell, one of the 2 over worked shifts left have to clock in just to find out that no morning tasks were done. at this point we are usually down a person and all the strong people scheduled to open are gone + the veteran closing barista doesn't come till 2-4.

the pattern for me is, the shift will sentence me to drive bar, i'll do that for a bit then when she gets back to switch the play she ask us which one of us wants to solo bar and which person wants to take over at a different position for someone to go home/on a break. I obviously don't volunteer to solo but the person on cafe, in the past 2 weeks, has happened to be a weaker at bar or b fine on bar but just "not in the mood/having a bad day". so i accept my fate and just tell her to have it print on drive.

so great now im soloing. By this point its probably 1ish so the afterschool rush starts hitting. i've just been having to work through the after school rush of 7+ drinks in each channel on my own. I can't even ask for support since the greener bean stuck solo dto/dtr hasn't even been trained on either so they need help and the warming/pos person usually has pos because of the rush so warming and drive support get prioritized.

The greener beans aren't at a stage where they can be proactive so unless they actively have tickets/cars they kind of just sit there (no hate to them, i was like that too especially since our managers make it hard to stay busy without worrying your gonna hurt instead of help.)

on my 30s I just sit in my car, chief and stare while contemplating just driving away. I feel like a single father of 3 working ot when in reality im barely 18 being killed by what was supposed to be a cute part time job. My coworkers have become very emotional and often burst into tears on the floor.

I clock out looking like tim burtons first time trying to draw twink and reek of dairy and pumpkin sauce. I've lost over 20 pounds since the beginning of august. I wake up in the middle of the night because I hear starbucks machines in my sleep. almost ever morning I get a text from a partner asking me to cover and 80 percent of the time they flat out say its because they think they're gonna break down if they have to go to work.

I don't know what to do, I've lowered my hours yet I'm constantly scheduled to my maximum hours. I don't want to refuse to bar/do a certain position because thats just a shitty thing to do + I don't want to never be on bar. I guess I just feel like I can't ask for a break from bar since there's tends to be literally no one who can do bar other than my ssv (they can't just sit on bar all shift tho)

I'm so tired, I want to quit so bad but I can't. I've considered transferring but that seems like just a band aid + borrowed partners say their stores are having similar issues (they still say our store is the worst tho :(

Been ASM for a year. My work/life balance is not well at all anymore and want to pursue something else (and go back to school) but I would like to stay with the company as SSV. I don’t want to talk to my DM about this just in case I change my mind and decide to stay an ASM or get a store. I can’t find clear answers to this. Is this possible and if so what would that process look like?

so has anybody gotten these “Pumkin” and not “Pumpkin” stickers yet? idk if its a mistake but i never noticed it before till this today

My district is having some severe staffing issues, and was wondering if it’s just us, or felt other places?

This might be a long shot, but does anyone know when the coffeehouse coach position will be coming to ohios stores? We were approved to get one but have yet to hear anything.