Posts Tagged "starbucks"

Before I paid for Starbucks by waiving my phone around, I used a Starbucks card. This was when you could customize your card with your fave drink and a message. I’ve since cut the calories and removed the yummy cinnamon dolce, but this was my card. It’s the closest I could come to a medical […]

I have a “usual” Starbucks. I go often for the last few years. Why do I go? I have an espresso machine at home. We have stick-a-pouch-in-a-machine things at work. I have Starbucks Via in my desk at work. Why go to Starbucks roughly every other day? There is a barista named Stephen. He makes […]

Who cares? I wish more restaurants did. Because I and other people care. I’m one of many people with serious food allergies. My main food allergy is fish. I can have shellfish. I can’t have fish fish. To the extent where when I get sushi (usually with shrimp), if the sushi chef cuts something before […]

Starbucks baristas getting people’s names wrong is an old complaint, though it got new again with a recent SNL commercial spoof. My boyfriend tells baristas he’s “Igor,” and that’s not his name. Other guys I dated came up with Starbucks names, sometimes that were nowhere near their real names. Why. They claimed that Starbucks staffers […]

[content-shortcode post_id=6330] When you get to a Starbucks, you have to agree to terms to log into the free wifi. You’re then dumped on a screen that I’ve never cared about until one day when I screen shot this screen I got after logging in (click to enlarge): I suddenly noticed it was telling me […]

The Starbucks card. I use it plenty. I just went gold. Evidently, 3 drinks a week makes you gold! But I realised it was killing tipping. When I pay cash, I normally dump my change into the tip jar. When I paid with a debit card, or the Starbucks card, I’m not opening my wallet […]

I got a postcard from Starbucks for my birthday. It was very cute. It told me they would never forget my birthday, and I can take that card into any Starbucks to get ANY drink I want. Well OK! I was visiting home this week, so I wandered into my old Oro Valley Starbucks (10785 […]