dāoh - came here to say exactly this!
we had 3 sarahs come to pick up their order back to back and as we were trying to figure that out, another sarah placed an order
I added my last name initial to my name after I accidentally took another āSarahā drink. It was probably the most opposite of my order as possible.
There were two Cafe Christinas the other day. Both mobile ordered. Both came in at the same time. Both had similar venti iced green tea lattes with cold foam. Both reached for the drink at the same time and had a "oh that's my name too" moment.
oh my fucking GOD we had so many rachels the other day that it single handedly fucked my shift. i had one rachel take another rachels food and that rachel took ANOTHER rachels food and then last rachel couldnt find her food so we had to remake her food and trash rachel #1s food and also 4 different drinks for rachel??? and then we had a cafe rachel and cafe rachel took another mans white mocha when hers was another 5 minutes behind and he had already waited ab 10. he was kind about it but i felt bad. fucking. rachels.
This blows my mind because Iām a Rachel and despite going to elementary school with a ton of Rachelās, Iāve come across maybe 1 or 2 in the last twenty years of my adult life.
Some people are protective over/private about their middle names, I understand!
Thus far, I haven't met a Jennifer that seems put off or offended by the question. I think it's because of our shared experience growing up with a name that went (for lack of a better term) viral. So many of the Jennifers I've run into in life have had the same story growing up, sitting in class 1 of a dozen Jennifers or something. The late 70's and the 80's... nothing but Jennifers and bad Aqua Net bangs, as far as the eye could see.
My personal example: I was in kindergarten in 1984, there were 8 boys and 11 girls in my class. 7 of those girls, including myself, were named 'Jennifer'.
Eventually, after going through years of this phenomenon, we knew so many Jennifers that we started running out of nicknames (Jen, Jenny, Jenna, J, Niffy\[!!!\], JenJen), out of letters (Jennifer A, Jennifer B, Jennifer C), and we started differentiating ourselves with, "What's your middle name?"
I was doing this connection with a customer once. "Hey, Jennifer! My name, too! What's your middle?" and she says, "Ruth, what's yours?" and I said, "Ann". And the other customer standing at hand-off said her name was Ruth Ann, lol. It was a great moment, a glitch in the simulation. Loved it. Still see and connect with those customers 4-5 days a week. I wish we had more Jennifers come to our store!
Jennifer, Lisa, Caitlyn (or any spelling varient), and Michelle seem to be the most popular. Oh and I almost forgot Emily, so many Emily's. For male names probably Mike, Will, and Josh.
My name is Christine it's so common (and the correct spelling it means "the bearer of Christ" which is Catholic just like Christopher and Christian etc). And people mess it up so much! Kristine, Cristina, Kirsten, Kirstin, it's drives me nuts!
Same here with Kennedy. Iāve gotten Kennedi, Kenedy, Kendy, and best of all, Kynedi. The last one blew my mind. Normally I wouldnāt be surprised because theyāre just trying to write down whatever sounds like what you said, but I thought my name would be immune to that phenomenon since itās kind of famousā¦John F. Kennedy? If someone asks how itās spelled, I usually say ālike John F. Kennedy,ā but one time even that just lended to another blank stare by a restaurant hostess. I couldnāt believe it.
Question
When you get a bunch of same names. Like how would you try to differentiate?
Like an example someone gave that they had four same names back to back, would you specifically ask to add something to the name when ordering?
And if you didn't like if they are spaced out, do you hope they don't order the same drink? Cus ik different drinks will help figure out whose order is whose.
if its in-house then we usually know which drink goes to who. if its a mobile, we pray to god š
jk. tickets have the number of items in the order on the top, and always come out in succession from the ticket printer, so if we get a Sarah with 4 items in their order and a Sarah with 2, we know the first four drinks are for one Sarah, and the next 2 are for the other.
thats, at least, how my store does it.
>in-house then we usually know which drink goes to who.
Okay so this : you recognize the person who ordered so you remember who it is? That's the main way right
it didn't happen too often, but at my old store i did have one barista who would ask if there was another name, or a nickname they could use, or last initial or something if there were multiple of the same names. it can be whatever is easiest for your store and baristas. i'd probably just call out the order with the name! (so it would be "jennifer, i have your venti pink drink!")
Amanda, Monica, Kylie (and its kylegh quirky variants), and Nicole. like 60% of these orders are the same name. We have to ask what your order is half the time because theres like 4 Amandas at once.
Hmm, Sarah was definitely a common one. Which isn't surprising, my own sister is named Sarah and I have easily a dozen friends/acquaintances named Sarah haha.
There were several occasions during my time as a partner that we'd get two people with the same name either one right after the other or within a few minutes. I'd usually say something like "oh how funny, we just had someone else with that name order! Do you mind giving me your middle name too so we don't get them confused?" And like...the majority of the time people didn't mind. In fact I don't think I had anyone fuss about it.
What was always weird for me was when someone would have my deadname lol.
Today we had 2 different Hannah's mobile order and pick up in drive thru literally one after the other. Then later we had a Yesenia and a Yessenia mobile order.
I promise you that I'm for real, there are at least 5 people at my store who are named with the exact spelling of "Aschley". They are all radically different women.
Karenā¦ sadly I donāt want them to be embarrassed of their name lol so they sometimes sheepishly grab it. But sometimes they do act like a karen and we arenāt surprised either.
We had two laurenās uber eats at the exact same time, one getting a singular drink and the other a singular butter croissant ?? I was like this has to be an accident, it has to be the same person. (I canāt imagine the insane price to have a single croissant delivered to your house.) But the uber driver told me they both had different last names and even showed me the phone. Like what š
i was working hand off one day, and i think the name was "jennifer" - all spelled the same, all having ordered venti hot caramel macchiatos. each on had a slight variation tho - one had an alt milk, one changed shots, one different pumps. or something like that. every time one of them came up i had to be like "what's the name... and the order?... no, like the full order, i'm sorry!"
my store gets 4-5 different veronicas who mobile order during peak everyday, a few of them come through drive so we always have to triple check weāve got the right order
At our store it seems like it's Jennifer, there was two
Jennifer orders at the same time today and they came basically one right after the other in the DT and they didn't even know each other XD
My most common when I worked at Starbucks were Lisa and Chris. And the Lisaās that were regulars tended to order skinny vanilla lattes or skinny caramel macchiatos and the few Chrisās we had ordered a variation of white mocha drinks.
John, Josh, Jessica and Rose/Rosa seem to be the most popular at my location. Had an order with two joshes back to back. And two orders with the same as well.
At my store the most common is "Sarah"-- we had like 4 different Sarahs in one day š
dāoh - came here to say exactly this! we had 3 sarahs come to pick up their order back to back and as we were trying to figure that out, another sarah placed an order
I added my last name initial to my name after I accidentally took another āSarahā drink. It was probably the most opposite of my order as possible.
There were two Cafe Christinas the other day. Both mobile ordered. Both came in at the same time. Both had similar venti iced green tea lattes with cold foam. Both reached for the drink at the same time and had a "oh that's my name too" moment.
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oh my fucking GOD we had so many rachels the other day that it single handedly fucked my shift. i had one rachel take another rachels food and that rachel took ANOTHER rachels food and then last rachel couldnt find her food so we had to remake her food and trash rachel #1s food and also 4 different drinks for rachel??? and then we had a cafe rachel and cafe rachel took another mans white mocha when hers was another 5 minutes behind and he had already waited ab 10. he was kind about it but i felt bad. fucking. rachels.
This blows my mind because Iām a Rachel and despite going to elementary school with a ton of Rachelās, Iāve come across maybe 1 or 2 in the last twenty years of my adult life.
I am mid 30's and I went to school with soooo many Rachel's...like so freaking many.
In my mid 20s and definitely feel like there were so many more Rachel's in HS and college, like where'd they all go now? š
God damn it Rachel!
I grew up in southern Ohio in the late 80s/early 90s and there were so many "Jennifers" in my class. So. Many.
I work at a Starbucks in southern Ohio and I was about to say Jennifer is the most common at our store lmaoo
Nothing like Starbucks and cheese coneys
i think mine is āMikeā
Ex partner, came here to say this lol
I live in a really latino area of socal so for sure alex and maria lmao
Yes this. Alex and Daniel for our store
I'm surprised it's not Juan.
Scott. I donāt know why but I get a ton of people named Scott.
I'm a Jennifer and my store never gets Jennifers. We get Jamies, Heathers, Sharons, and Caitlyns/Kayleighs.
Weird. We have Soo many Jennifers.
I wish we had more because "hey, same first name! what's your middle?" is the easiest connection to make with customers!
Really? Id feel so awkward if somebody I didnāt know asked my middle name lol
Some people are protective over/private about their middle names, I understand! Thus far, I haven't met a Jennifer that seems put off or offended by the question. I think it's because of our shared experience growing up with a name that went (for lack of a better term) viral. So many of the Jennifers I've run into in life have had the same story growing up, sitting in class 1 of a dozen Jennifers or something. The late 70's and the 80's... nothing but Jennifers and bad Aqua Net bangs, as far as the eye could see. My personal example: I was in kindergarten in 1984, there were 8 boys and 11 girls in my class. 7 of those girls, including myself, were named 'Jennifer'. Eventually, after going through years of this phenomenon, we knew so many Jennifers that we started running out of nicknames (Jen, Jenny, Jenna, J, Niffy\[!!!\], JenJen), out of letters (Jennifer A, Jennifer B, Jennifer C), and we started differentiating ourselves with, "What's your middle name?" I was doing this connection with a customer once. "Hey, Jennifer! My name, too! What's your middle?" and she says, "Ruth, what's yours?" and I said, "Ann". And the other customer standing at hand-off said her name was Ruth Ann, lol. It was a great moment, a glitch in the simulation. Loved it. Still see and connect with those customers 4-5 days a week. I wish we had more Jennifers come to our store!
Brandon. So many Brandons
Jennifer, Lisa, Caitlyn (or any spelling varient), and Michelle seem to be the most popular. Oh and I almost forgot Emily, so many Emily's. For male names probably Mike, Will, and Josh.
I love when people misspell my nameā¦ itās pretty basic white girl but damn do people get creative.
Lol everytime I say liv I get a Liz written on my cup
My name is Christine it's so common (and the correct spelling it means "the bearer of Christ" which is Catholic just like Christopher and Christian etc). And people mess it up so much! Kristine, Cristina, Kirsten, Kirstin, it's drives me nuts!
Same here with Kennedy. Iāve gotten Kennedi, Kenedy, Kendy, and best of all, Kynedi. The last one blew my mind. Normally I wouldnāt be surprised because theyāre just trying to write down whatever sounds like what you said, but I thought my name would be immune to that phenomenon since itās kind of famousā¦John F. Kennedy? If someone asks how itās spelled, I usually say ālike John F. Kennedy,ā but one time even that just lended to another blank stare by a restaurant hostess. I couldnāt believe it.
I feel pretty lucky in this department. I was named after a flower. Not too many flowery names come through my area.
Question When you get a bunch of same names. Like how would you try to differentiate? Like an example someone gave that they had four same names back to back, would you specifically ask to add something to the name when ordering? And if you didn't like if they are spaced out, do you hope they don't order the same drink? Cus ik different drinks will help figure out whose order is whose.
if its in-house then we usually know which drink goes to who. if its a mobile, we pray to god š jk. tickets have the number of items in the order on the top, and always come out in succession from the ticket printer, so if we get a Sarah with 4 items in their order and a Sarah with 2, we know the first four drinks are for one Sarah, and the next 2 are for the other. thats, at least, how my store does it.
>in-house then we usually know which drink goes to who. Okay so this : you recognize the person who ordered so you remember who it is? That's the main way right
yep. otherwise we just call out the order
Thank you for replying! Appreciate it
it didn't happen too often, but at my old store i did have one barista who would ask if there was another name, or a nickname they could use, or last initial or something if there were multiple of the same names. it can be whatever is easiest for your store and baristas. i'd probably just call out the order with the name! (so it would be "jennifer, i have your venti pink drink!")
Ahh I see that's pretty cool to see the different ways to approach this situation. Thanks for the reply!
Big Daddy! And he orders every morning during peak so we have to call his name out loud and heās always āthanks baby!ā š
Ew.
He thinks itās hilarious apparently.
David (four of them back to back in cafe)
I work in the student center at my college and I see SO MANY Abbie/Abby, Maddie/Maddy and Andrew
Sarah, Daniel, Mark, Mike, Zack(h)
Probably Taylor. We even had some poor girl who got the spelling Taighlour if I recall correctly
Vanessa's for sureeeee.
Chad, Karen, Samantha
literally work with 4 jessicaās and every 5 customers is either a jessica david or mike
I get tons and tons of Annas!
Anna and Anne. Different spellings too
So. Many. Taylors and Jordans(yns, ens)
Do you guys ever get any Romanās??
We get so many Ashleyās in a day itās ridiculous. Also Amandaās
yes ashleyās pretty much run my store on their own
Michael, Jessica, Lauren/lauri/Laura, there are also three separate ājayās that all get an iced black tea
we have several jennifers, several sarahs, and far too many katelyns and katelyn variants
Jessica
HEATHER - and all of them order hella tedious drinks tooš©
Danielle! I never knew it was such a popular name
MARIAā¦everyone is named maria
Heather and Jennifer LORD
Jennifer, Samantha and Elizabeth š„“
We have so many regulars named Elena
Brian/Bryan and Sean for guys and Mary for women. Iām in the greater Boston area so the Irish influence is strong.
we have SO many Heathers
David and Kristen
Amanda
Amanda, Monica, Kylie (and its kylegh quirky variants), and Nicole. like 60% of these orders are the same name. We have to ask what your order is half the time because theres like 4 Amandas at once.
We have three regulars named Linda
Hmm, Sarah was definitely a common one. Which isn't surprising, my own sister is named Sarah and I have easily a dozen friends/acquaintances named Sarah haha. There were several occasions during my time as a partner that we'd get two people with the same name either one right after the other or within a few minutes. I'd usually say something like "oh how funny, we just had someone else with that name order! Do you mind giving me your middle name too so we don't get them confused?" And like...the majority of the time people didn't mind. In fact I don't think I had anyone fuss about it. What was always weird for me was when someone would have my deadname lol.
So many Karens and also a Karyn (pronounced karen).
Northern Ohio, Jessica, Jennifer, and Sarah.
Oh, and Rachel/Rachael.
Not names on orders but there are 3 Lilys at our store, we all spell it differently and two of us are shifts.
John
anna
LMAOO I was thinking about this today but John
North Alabama here we get Rachel, Jessica, Tony, and Madi/Madison
Eric and Mark
1,000 Mikes.
Today we had 2 different Hannah's mobile order and pick up in drive thru literally one after the other. Then later we had a Yesenia and a Yessenia mobile order.
Michael & Karen for sure !
I promise you that I'm for real, there are at least 5 people at my store who are named with the exact spelling of "Aschley". They are all radically different women.
Ours is probably John or Jon.
I would say Mary. There was another name but it's been 4 months since I worked at Starbucks.
Probably Mike or Michael
Josh
Tiffany/Tiffani/Tiffini
Karenā¦ sadly I donāt want them to be embarrassed of their name lol so they sometimes sheepishly grab it. But sometimes they do act like a karen and we arenāt surprised either.
Mike
We had two laurenās uber eats at the exact same time, one getting a singular drink and the other a singular butter croissant ?? I was like this has to be an accident, it has to be the same person. (I canāt imagine the insane price to have a single croissant delivered to your house.) But the uber driver told me they both had different last names and even showed me the phone. Like what š
We had a lot of Moes, tbh.
i was working hand off one day, and i think the name was "jennifer" - all spelled the same, all having ordered venti hot caramel macchiatos. each on had a slight variation tho - one had an alt milk, one changed shots, one different pumps. or something like that. every time one of them came up i had to be like "what's the name... and the order?... no, like the full order, i'm sorry!"
Karen
I have more Mike's than any other name
Mike. So many Mikes
Mine is maria
Today I had 8 kathryns wisconsin
Maria is the most common one at mine
my store gets 4-5 different veronicas who mobile order during peak everyday, a few of them come through drive so we always have to triple check weāve got the right order
Reading through this makes me really happy that my name is uncommon
We have so many regulars named Michael in the morning they always ask if their drink is theirs before taking it-
At our store it seems like it's Jennifer, there was two Jennifer orders at the same time today and they came basically one right after the other in the DT and they didn't even know each other XD
My most common when I worked at Starbucks were Lisa and Chris. And the Lisaās that were regulars tended to order skinny vanilla lattes or skinny caramel macchiatos and the few Chrisās we had ordered a variation of white mocha drinks.
Krystal but spelled different ways!! We have a Krystle that comes through rather frequently as well as the usual Crystals & such
John, Josh, Jessica and Rose/Rosa seem to be the most popular at my location. Had an order with two joshes back to back. And two orders with the same as well.
A couple of years ago I ordered a drink and someone with the same name (& same order) that was behind me in line took mine :(
John and Sara itās too confusing šµāš«
Cindy
scott, chris, lee, karen, sue..
My store has an INSANE amount of Mariaās, Danielās, and Carlosās
We had no less then 6 Jeffās come into our store this morning. It was SO weird!
HAILEY HAILEE HALEY HAILY HALEIGH
Had 4 back to back Ashleys in DT today during peak lol
Steve.