Posted on 08/21/2015 9:25:25 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
A Starbucks barista named Brad describes a guy who bought 365 Starbucks gift cards and registered each of them with a different birthday so he can get a free drink every day. That's already a dick move, but the guy makes it worse by being a real jerk to the barista. When he comes in to the store he asks for a Venti cup and a marker and writes instructions on the cup before handing it back:
[He draws lines and arrows and writes all over the cup while telling me: Two pumps of white mocha here, then add five pumps of vanilla. That should take us to this line here where youre gonna add cold heavy cream up to this ridge here...it should be halfway between this line and this line. Make sure to add the heavy whipping cream before the espresso, it changes the taste if you do it out of order. Then add your four shots, three regular and one long shot. That long shot is important, since you guys reformulated your machines, its been Hell trying to get my drink right. That long shot helps balance it. Then stir it for me, Mister Brad. Now do me a favor and add ice to the top there and itll be easy as pie. Im not picky so dont worry about shaking it or anything like that.]
A drink like this is normally $6.50, which would make it ineligible for the free birthday coffee, so he instructs the barista to ring it up as a "one quad espresso, add white mocha, sub vanilla, sub heavy cream."
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“Aholes like this ruin it for everybody.”
I am suspicious. There is either ‘more’ to the story or ‘less’ of a story.
They let him do this 365 times?? No wonder those “baristas” can’t get a job with their PhDs.
I’m sure he’s diagnosable, but he’s probably ‘competent to stand trial’.
Eh. I hate Starbucks, everything from their idiotic “Let’s Talk About Race” campaign, to “Fair Trade Coffee” signs, not to mention their overpriced coffee.
If I was behind that guy in line, when they handed him the drink and he turned to walk out with a smug look on his face, I would consider either sticking out my foot, or giving his coffee-carrying forearm a stiff nudge as he removes the cover to stick more “stuff” in it.
Does he get hi secret service detail anything?
LOL, that was my thought as well.
I have an intense dislike for them, but you do have to wonder...how would they manage to make a profit if there wasn’t a legion of dummies willing to pay that price so they can have “morally sound” coffee?
I know of a couple of independent coffee shops that are run by obvious liberals (I won’t go into how I can tell...) and I am amazed that people actually go there, because I have gone there a few times myself, and also walked in with others, and they seem to have absolutely no idea of how to get out of each other’s way. They will have six people behind the counter, a long line of paying customers, and all six people look like they are busy, but...nothing gets done. It is almost as if someone wrote a sketch.
If liberals weren’t so damned potentially dangerous and frequently annoying, they would be hilarious.
Hillary voter. Probably registered in multiple precincts.
Hahahahaha...now that made me laugh!
I don’t why anyone would want to go to Starbucks. Their coffee tastes like crap and its way too high. I think most of their sales psychology is appealing to the customer’s ego because he is drinking the “special” coffee. My Keurig makes far betterr coffee and costs 15 - 20 times less.
Free? ...how much does 365 Starbucks gift cards cost?
The reason I think the story is made up
No clue. By my office, there is a Starbucks two doors down from a local coffee shop that offers pretty much everything Starbucks does (all of the espresso-based drinks, etc.), only cheaper and much better. And yet, every morning, people are lined up out the door at Starbucks, while the lines are much shorter at the other place.
How much did he pay for each gift card? Now multiply that number by 365 and that's the minimum he spends at Starbucks each year. On Starbuck's website, I couldn't find a gift card for less than $10. So this guy is potentially spending $3650/yr at Starbucks. Sounds to me like he is a valued customer no matter what complicated drink he is trying to "scam" the company out of.
If gift cards are free, then clearly I am wrong.
It would be interesting to watch the customers at each business. I might be interested in checking out the women at the non-Starbucks place.
GMTA
Bought 365 cards? Isnt that a bit much for a free cup of coffee?
It must be the pizza store owner from a few days back who closes his shop during lunch hours.
awhile ago, you can just put 5$ on a gift card and sign up online, with a bday. then you can move/gift the money away to another account.
365 seems like too much work, and drinking a special coffee like that daily... perhaps is too much...think of the calorie intake!
if I was doing it, I could settle for 52 cards, one a week. I’m not that greedy. or heck, one for each starbucks that we have around town.
That and nobody remembers the same guy coming in everyday and using the B’day ruse? Barista’s are geniuses!
Not so fast. If he would have skipped the feb 28th and March 1st card he could have used a card from Feb 29th! lol
They probably would have let him slide on the day before and day after. lol
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