Comments on: Speak Starbucks-speak!

By: Edmontonguy

Edmontonguy — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:23:37 +0000

My usual is a social drink (i.e. no caffine) and it’s a non-fat, tall, decafe mocha with no whip, no foam, extra hot and stirred. I get some dirty looks from barristas about the “stirred” part but they don’t all do it and then I get too much syrup at the bottom of the cup / end of the drink. But today I had the captial letter “T” in a circle on the sleeve of my cup. Never seen that before and it isn’t on your list. Was it a leftover from an aborted order? What does it mean? Cheers

By: zelman

zelman — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:05:38 +0000

Whipped Cream is technically “WC!”, though some baristas get lazy and lose the punctuation.

By: proudgeek

proudgeek — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:08:42 +0000

Thanks, Trainee – that makes perfect sense now!

By: StarbucksTrainee

StarbucksTrainee — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:12:24 +0000

well for the caramel sauce vs caramel syrup, the syrup is concentrated and used for the actual drink. the sauce is just caramel in a squeeze bottle for topping purposes

By: m

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:17:37 +0000

I order a Green Tea Frap w/ SOY all the time! At least in LA, they don’t look at you funny or judge you for it … LOL

By: Zooey

Zooey — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:10:51 +0000

Ok! I’ll try it next time. Thanks

By: Proud Geek

Proud Geek — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:17:14 +0000

Zooey – oh, deaf people CAN use Starbucks’ drive-thru (and any other drive-thru’s). Just write down your order, get in the drive-thru line, skip the menu / loudspeaker, and give the person in the first window (or only window) your written order. Took me a long time to get used to doing it this way myself, but my partner has been doing it for years. Now that we have two young kids, drive-thru’s are a BLESSING! :-P

By: Zooey

Zooey — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:37:08 +0000

I’m looking forward to the day when I can use the Starbucks drive thru. Why do only hearing people get to use the drive thru?

By: JS

JS — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:40:04 +0000

This entry is cool, not to mention eye-opening…it’s gotta be tough to be a barista. The baristas at my corner Starbucks tell me that they also aim to memorize the order of roughly a hundred regular customers.

If I understand this list correctly, my usual order would be a tall 1/2 A. Not too exciting, but thankfully not too expensive, either.

Unfortunately, my work has taken me for a two-month excursion to the eurozone, where the dollar isn’t worth much. In the interests of finding a coffee shop where I could just sit with a book and some caffeine, I went to one of the local Starbucks and paid $4.50 not once but twice for mere cups of coffee…nothing elaborate like a triple latte with extras. After walking out of the shop, I did some mental currency conversions, realized what I had done, and swore a mighty oath. With fortitude, I will avoid Starbucks until I need to put in some long hours back at the office in the States.

By: gnarlydorkette

gnarlydorkette — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:33:10 +0000

ONE MORE THING–
Could anybody explain to me the difference between caramel syrup and sauce?

I was asked this ONCE by a location that I don’t frequent and I was so lost so I just stumbled “um uh sauce, I guess?”