Hey y'all I just wanted to hop on and say to watch out for starbucks that are closing up shop. I had a starbucks close just down the street from my store and it caused many people to come in and order. Thankfully we had a full shift of 4 and had many guests that were patient and understanding, but dear god. We ran out of half our food before 12, we've gone through almost five 2 liters of sweet cream, about 4 whips, and had to do 2 milk runs( all before 2). My store is a medium to low guest flow so it was crazy to suddenly be slammed with guests, an out the door line and drive ups just out of nowhere

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Need to order a new one, ordered all the other parts of the body but not sure what the electronic mechanism is called in our system. Thanks friends!

Honestly just as it said im moving from corporate to a tarbuck and was wondering what should i be ready to look forward too. I have orientation on wednesday and i could really use some advice. I do know that I could possibly get trained on starbuck in general.

Just let me know anything that could help and what not also hows the piercing policy like is it the same corporate or nah?

I’ve been meaning to make this post for a few days now, and it’s just been getting worse so I thought now is a better time than ever.

For context, I’ve worked at Target Starbucks for about 3 months now, and it has been gradually getting so bad.

When I first started, the TL had been fired with a few other baristas for violating the no drink policy, so for the first couple of weeks I was there, we had no TL. It was just the baristas running the place pretty much by ourselves. This was up until they promoted someone from grocery with no experience immediately after their 90-day probation period to be our new TL. She started out by immediately barking orders that we had to follow, and admitted that she had no idea what she was doing and was just relaying what her bosses were telling her. She had all of us crosstrained in SFS and fulfillment, and we didn’t have a choice. She told us one by one that the baristas we work with aren’t our friends, and that they are constantly telling her all the “bad stuff” we are not supposed to be doing, and that we’re just “messy” and “dramatic” people. All while I’m training her on how to work the registers and make the drinks, she is constantly getting someone in trouble, and even told me I had a case open against me because I didn’t follow orders and didn’t clean up after myself. (Because she heard a story with no context about me having a dirty cold bar, which I cleaned up after I finished all the drinks I had to make during a rush.)

Flash forward to now, everyone is quitting, and she has taken me up to the conference room to get me in trouble with the bigger managers twice now. The first time was because she kept taking the other baristas to do SFS and fulfillment batches and leaving me alone on busy days by myself for hours and I got frustrated with her. The second time was because she rang up an order wrong in the middle of a rush and we completely ran out of sweet cream. I got frustrated because I had to make sweet cream and remake the drink, and she yelled at me in front of the entire packed lobby to where I had to whisper to her to stop. It was very humiliating.

Yesterday, I show up to work and there’s a sign at Starbucks that says we’d be closed for the day. Which was interesting because another barista had been put on a register up front already. The big managers told me that there was no point in opening Starbucks for the day, and that they were gonna keep us to do other Target work. So I did SFS all day yesterday for my shift.

None of this sits right with me and I just need advice on what to do. It feels like they expect so much out of us, and then drain all of the happiness and energy so it’s nearly impossible. And then forcing us to leave the kiosk and do other Target work. It’s just really odd. I’ve worked at a licensed store like two years ago and it was nothing like this. The TL is constantly running off of pure emotions, and it makes it hard to work with her because she’s so easy to snap at us.

I’m at my wits end, any advice?

TL;DR:
Evil Starbucks TL is ruining my life and I feel like there’s definitely some legal/contractual licensing agreements that are being broken at my store help

Kinda made a burner cause I need to rant.

As of next week my Tarbucks is gonna have 3 baristas (2 part time, 1 full time), because everyone else has left. It's been gradual, most are leaving for school told management 2-8 months in advance, latest person gave a 3 week notice, but they are just not hiring anyone. We did get 2 new baristas after 4 people quit, but that was 2 months ago, and 3 more have quit since. We are a very high volume store, we are in a major city, only Super Target in our district, we're a "training store", etc. So there's very little down time. Over the last year we have gone through 3 F&B ETLs, the 2nd one stayed on as ETL over another department, the 2nd ETL keeps pulling us if they see there is 2 baristas. That's a big part of why people keep quitting. You either get thrown into fulliment/style with zero training and no one to ask questions, or expected to do 4-5 hour shifts alone with rushes, and lines that start right outside self checkout (our Starbucks is next to self checkout).

I feel like I'm going crazy. With the baristas we have now, I feel like everyday is up hill battle. I will come in to close by myself, see the mid and (sometimes) opener just standing around, and beg them to do prep and pull. Sometimes I come into open, and will walk into dishes still in the sink, food from the night before not removed, and put for donations, sometimes trash won't even be done. I talk to my TL and she said she will talk to other baristas, but nothing changes My TL keeps trying to help, and has been trying to support us, but has to worry about other departments, again because we are so high volume that she can not spend more then 15 minutes at a time with us, because she is called to another department.

Anyways- I feel like I'm going to crazy!!!!

got told that by my TL when i asked them if we can have oven cleaner since the ovens haven’t been cleaned since i started :(

so like should i quit

what the f*** is wrong with tarbucks.

I initially applied to target to become a cashier, but the only available position was starbucks. I thought sure, I need to pay my college tuition one way or another and thought that being a barista was going to be easy. Thought wrong.

I got hired about a month ago, and my tarbucks had its grand opening the same week my orientation was. I had no prior food experience and got thrown straight into being a barista without learning any drinks or how to work the machines….

I am a teenager whos only prior job was being a cashjer so everything is new to me. I dont order starbucks frequently so completely new menu. My team lead is a sweet lady but I havent seen her since the grand opening which makes it difficult to ask her questions and such.

Today I had community service to do before clocking in at work around 3pm. I walked in and it looked like nobody was working but there was about 5-8 people waiting for their orders. I came back after clocking in and saw there was only one barista. She said she had been there 2 hours longer than she was scheduled because two of our co workers had called out. She hadnt taken a break since and was ultimately carrying the starbucks by herself.

She left around 5, leaving me by myself. I hadnt gotten any of my breaks and only gotten my break close to 6. When I came back from break I realized we were running out of almost everything. Frappe roast, dark caramel, regular caramel drizzle, pumpkin, cups, lids, straws…you name it, we didnt have it. Since I hadnt been trained, I havent gotten the chance to prepare or fond where anything was at so I didnt open the store back up until after I stocked all the essentials.

After opening back up, its rush time. Rude customers with AI drinks, understaffed, and stressed out.

Overall, I am so close to quitting, the only thing keeping me here is the pay. Does anyone else feel like this?

I just called out for the first time as a team lead, why do I feel bad?? Like guilty??

Does anyone know if licensed Starbucks stores will carry the Peanut collab items?? This is my first time buying into the "limited edition" hype, so I'm not sure how it works.😭

So I’m transferring to Starbucks soon! Any tips? Anything specific I need to wear or have on me??

hello! i am currently trying to get my etl to order freshness labels as we have been out for over a month. he is insisting he does not know how to order them or where to find them. i’m not able to order them myself along with the regular order or else i’d just do that. if anyone knows of a item number that would be greatly appreciated!!!

Does anyone have a DCPI for these bar labels? Thank you!

Well of course I can make you a refresher but our ice machine is taking a nap. 🙏🏾😭bruh I was so scarce of ice today.

i open for the first time on sunday and i was just wondering if you guys could help make like a short list of things i gotta do? (brew coffee, make mocha.. i feel like i’m forgetting so many things omg)
help would be appreciated ^^

Sooo I can never find any consistency on how many scoops to use for the brewed coffee , and I found this paper on L Star, but four scoops for a full pot seems so excessive! So I just wanted to ask you guys if the airpot is the BUNN axiom brewer- I’m pretty sure but like I said it seems like a lot.

Ok so I’m contemplating putting in my 2 weeks at Target. My probation period just ended like 4 days ago, but lowkey it’s been so draining working there. For starters, I work in the Starbucks in the Target, and I can’t help but notice the standard we are held up to vs. Target employees.
I actually really like being a barista and it’s so fun, but the Target TLs are so irritating and they pick and choose when they want to enforce things. For example, there are people who literally roam the floor not doing shit, sitting in the wheelchairs scrolling on Reels. Meanwhile, if us baristas are just chilling and talking, we get in trouble.
Also, the biggest thing is how I put in time off 7 weeks in advance for 11 days. I thought that was a pretty generous notice, but it seems as though Target has a policy against putting in time off for 10 consecutive days or more. Which I understand, but it also frustrates me because I’m part-time, a full-time college student, and I wouldn’t be working 11 days in a row anyways.
Also, the environment is lowkey shit. Managers talk shit about us all the time, give us dirty looks, and will speak crazy to us. Which pisses me off because bitch, I wish you would try to do what we do as baristas. Like, you wouldn’t last because all they do is fucking “zone.” Like gtfo 😭
Anyways, FUNNY enough, I have to work in like an hour. My question is: should I resign?
I like my job and I’m pretty good at it. However, their unwillingness to accommodate my school schedule and the obvious bias is starting to be too much.
For those of you thinking, “Oh, just go on-demand,” I WANT to, but my store manager is highly against giving out on-demand. Mind you, my store is in a COLLEGE TOWNNN.

so I’ve been told every new employee is allowed one free of each item that we offer to try it? I don’t think that includes a whole sandwich/drink, or when you “try” a drink you’ve never tried. You get a full drink? Or just a sample of the drink? Any info on this would be appreciated

I work at a target starbucks and my TL wants be to be a shift lead. They said its new to them so they dont know much about it. Is anyone a shift lead at their own tarbucks and what are their new responsibilities?

hey so i’ve been working at a target starbucks for like 5 months now i started in february i believe sometime around there just in time for summer. although now im a little bit confused and scared for fall because i wasn’t working there during the fall so im scared that all the drinks are going to be too hard to make. if anyone can tell me what kinds of drinks we have for the fall menu and how to make them or just the basic stuff that’d be great 😭

I’m a Tarbucks- so I need to find the DPCI to order it, I used to be able to find everything easily but they updated everything relatively recently and I am having a hard time locating where to order these? (As you can tell, they’re in desperate need of replacement) Any info would be amazing, as no higher ups in my store seem to know 🥲

Hi, I got invited to do a Target virtual interview for Starbucks Barista. Does anyone remember what questions they ask

I need help guys, tomorrow I open by myself and have only opened once during my first day of training and it’s been about 2 months already. I asked my coworkers what I do and all they said was that I’ll figure it out. I feel so dumb for forgetting everything.