Starbucks — Restaurant in Hermiston

You have too many napkins, sir. You have too many sugars, mister. Hey you? You used too much cream. Sound familiar? Not at Starbucks. You'll never hear those words here. But their actions say it all. We all know that Starbucks, under the guise of disease prevention and cross-contamination prevention, officially discontinued the self-serve condiment and toppings bar over SARSCoV2 concerns. Okay. I get it. But not sure why a company that overwhelmingly promoted the jab to its employees would now be afraid of the same vaccine's efficacy? 🤔

I think a more accurate interpretation of the new policy is "cost reduction." If I'm being honest, I was wasteful. Now, I'm not. A decision was made by someone way smarter than me at corporate to further regulate my coffee experience, and tada! I'm now compliant. It feels good to know that I'm doing my part without the burden of critical thinking or self awareness. But I digress.

Fortunately for me, I can not be trusted to safely regulate my own condiment use. I also need to be reminded, albeit politely, that if I want the proper amount of extras, I must also indicate the desired measure with my fingers. What? Sign language proficiency, too? Over 300 different types according to online sources. Well done, Starbucks.

Apparently, words can be misinterpreted and hand gestures are iffy at best, say seasoned Barristas and other so-called Starbucks officianados. Take the infamous, "half inch of cream" request. Some stores add less, some more. It all depends on the "room-in-da-cup" prepped by the barrista. What about those with a penchant for the metric system like scientists, med pros, and foreign nationals? Is half of an inch a subjective measure or an absolute truth? Who knows anymore. Isn't time consuming to keep up with the rate of acculteration and cultural amalgamation these days? I think it's time for Corporate to consider adding "Barrista proof" hash marks to the inside of the cup so that a half of an inch is the same worldwide. Just say, "You're welcome."

Or, I can let my actions can speak for...

Love you guys, the Starbucks fam, these genius coffee drinks are to die for. Although, I went over here with my mom and we got refreshers just cuz it was almost 7pm and the kiwi refresher was well made but they were out of mango dragonfruit refresher and strawberries for the strawberry acai, and I mean ik I could’ve just gotten something else had I known they were but she didn’t say anything about it and my drink tastes like liquid lollipop because there was no fruit to give it a nice fruity taste. She simply made it for us just with the refresher and handed it to us and explained that there was a new manager and was experimenting a lil bit with the supply of stock. I think that it totally okay but not the fact that i spend $4 on a little drink that wasn’t fully made correctly because they didn’t have their own ingredients 😬. Sorry if I made this sound worse than it was, but the drink was so sad. Much rather have gotten something more enjoyable but I can’t read minds so I had no knowledge on that the drink...

It took over half an hour getting a coffee through the drive thru today. The lobby has been closed for weeks and plans on being closed for several more weeks while they "train new employees". The drive through wraps around the entire building and blocks the drive through exit including cars stopping in the road and blocking traffic. So nobody can go anywhere. This is unacceptable. People literally just sit there and don't move so nobody can get out of the drive thru. I had to get out of my car and ask a lady to move so she could let cars go by. Then they only had one person working the window and taking orders so as I sat there waiting for my order that was just sitting on the counter, along with several other orders, for over five minutes while the person taking the orders in the drive through could have just handed it to me, none of the other workers helped him or me. Once I finally got my order, it was cold and I was late for work. I sure hope their "training" improves things because this is a...