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Starbucks has rolled out a new tipping system and customers are freaking out
Fortune ^ | 12/6/22

Posted on 12/06/2022 5:38:37 AM PST by EBH

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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I see them on every corner, in every grocery store. I had a meeting there. Once.
I think they sell coffeeish thingys. Expensive, I’m told.


21 posted on 12/06/2022 6:01:17 AM PST by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'll go ahead.)
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To: EBH

“Customers are freaking out”? All customers? Some customers? Two customers?

Ok, a few people who posted on Twitter.

Great reporting there, dude.


22 posted on 12/06/2022 6:02:06 AM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Starbucks tastes like piss.

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You drink piss? What is the taste resemblance between the two?

23 posted on 12/06/2022 6:02:46 AM PST by deport
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To: EBH

Here’s my rule for tipping...
If you order from a menu-—tip.
If you order from a menu board, even if they bring the food to you when it’s ready-—no tip.


24 posted on 12/06/2022 6:03:50 AM PST by FredSchwartz (What ever happened to common sense and simple logic?)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Starbucks over roasts its coffee, removing all possible good flavors. Even their “light” is a “dark.”

French roast has a history, and its not good.

It’s laughable at how they got people to choose what the French did under great duress, with bad/spoiled beans, just to have “something,” from what normally had been garbage.

People pay for that!


25 posted on 12/06/2022 6:03:56 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: EBH

Only times I’ve ever been in a Starbucks were when a training group met there to drive to a private range.


26 posted on 12/06/2022 6:09:40 AM PST by real saxophonist (Hoplophobia will never be in the DSM, because the DSM is written by hoplophobes.)
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To: deport

Sorry to offended you. I didn’t think we had Starbucks drinkers here. It still tastes like piss from a fluffy little French poodle.


27 posted on 12/06/2022 6:10:13 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Hey Amerika! The whole world is watching and laughing their asses off. )
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To: EBH

I’d love to see tipping statistics broken down by demographics. When my son was in the pizza delivery business he told me on several occasions that a particular race were horrible tippers.

At first I thought it was just an anomaly, but since then I’ve had several tell me that they had the same experience.


28 posted on 12/06/2022 6:12:18 AM PST by CodeJockey ("The duty of a true Patriot is to protect his country from its government.” –Thomas Paine)
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To: EBH

There’s a Starbucks 5 minutes walk from me and I’ve never been there ,LOL


29 posted on 12/06/2022 6:12:42 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: EBH; All

First of all, such FUN hearing about your business! My sister does pet sitting on the side and she makes really good money at it. People are very generous when it comes to quality pet care.

Secondly, if it ever appears that I have a, ‘favorite barista’ I request that one of you shoot me, LOL!


30 posted on 12/06/2022 6:15:41 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: CodeJockey

Well, putting it another way, those who expect reparations from people who died a hundred years ago or more are not likely to be tippers today.


31 posted on 12/06/2022 6:16:41 AM PST by SamAdams76 (4,692,256 | Truth Social | 87,850,338 | Twitter | Trump Followers)
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To: EBH

They do it at subway too. If they’re not bringing it to my table no tip.


32 posted on 12/06/2022 6:19:13 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: EBH

Thank you. This is a very solid and admirable approach.

In the past, I have left our private garbage man a tip in an envelope attached to the can. Got no thank you or other response.


33 posted on 12/06/2022 6:20:30 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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To: EBH

No skin off my nose. I have never been inside a Starbucks and intend t maintain my record for life.


34 posted on 12/06/2022 6:21:33 AM PST by arthurus (covfefe-)
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To: atc23

Thanks, I just had a conversation with a colleague who runs a much bigger pet business. He keeps referring people to us because the potential client is ‘too finicky.’ LOL. His dog walkers rarely get tips. And he admits his people are not trained to deliver ‘personalized’ service. So there ya’ go.

And yes we are busy. Been fully booked for November and December since August! Even in these inflationary times, people still go home for Christmas/Thanksgiving. I cannot wait to see what the team comes up with for this Christmas pets experience!


35 posted on 12/06/2022 6:21:35 AM PST by EBH (Ok Republicans, work like our Republic is the last one on earth.)
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To: EBH

I quit Starbucks two years ago and don’t miss it one bit. Tipping is for service above and beyond...which you don’t get at Starbucks, neither at the drive through or even in-store where the automatons behind the counter do nothing to make a visit noteworthy and seemingly don’t have the time to clean up the fixings bar, empty the trash during peak periods or clean the bathrooms.


36 posted on 12/06/2022 6:21:48 AM PST by O6ret
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s a place where you deposit a lot of your hard-earned cash.


37 posted on 12/06/2022 6:22:44 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker!)
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To: CodeJockey

Canadians, lol?


38 posted on 12/06/2022 6:23:51 AM PST by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman)
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To: Mr. K

They can’t spit in your coffee if you never go to Starbucks.


39 posted on 12/06/2022 6:25:28 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Fake News. Might be true; but it’s designed to distort, mislead, brainwash and BS sheeple. )
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To: EBH

I never go to starbucks, but I have family who do.
If I want coffee on the road, I go to McDonalds ot a QT for gas. McDonalds large coffee runs between 1 And 1.50 for a large.

Anytime a business trys to grab extra money they aren’t entitled to, my answer is always NO. Like when those pink ribbons for breast cancer were begging $ at the register....no. I k ew it was a Planned Pare thood deception. I think it’s rude.

I went to a cracker barrel and they tried to slide a tip through....no. They don’t know if I left cash on the table or quietly put it into my waitress’s hand so she could hide it. It’s not my responsibility to pay your employee’s wages. Tips are a secret thing between me and the waitress.


40 posted on 12/06/2022 6:26:00 AM PST by PrairieLady2
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