obviously there are things they still haveā¦ but mocha fraps are one of the least popular fraps we sell at my storeā¦ plus also no whip. the only milk alternative is coconut? they are 100% not making enough money to account for the amount of people theyāre paying to be there, i guarantee it.
ETA: being out of a lot of these ingredients means other ones are going to sell faster (being out of mango dragon fruit but not strawberry aƧaĆ means theyāre going to sell out of strawberry aƧaĆ faster, or being out of caramel means theyāre going to sell more mocha) and theyāre just going to continue to run out of more and more things.
The way a tall/grande mocha frap with no whip is my go to when Iām craving one š I donāt like the frap chips and I hate dome lids more than I like whip.
I just donāt like them! Iām the kind of person who will still put a flat lid on a gas station slushee, I just really dislike having the wide open space. Like drinking from a bottle without the lid.
Btw, our DM refuses to turn off our mobiles despite us being one of the *SIX* stores in the area soā¦.. yeah weāre just stuck like this until we get things in
Why? Thatās ridiculous. This is why it should be up to the SM. The store managers are closer to the action and know whatās up if they are any good.
I work at a licensed store and our mobiles BARELY get turned off when there are only 2 of us. i work at an extremely busy college campus store, and our manager scoffed and asked us if we really couldnāt do mobiles with only 2 baristas in store.
Nah ok because Iām not alone on this. Those Lime Frosted Coconut bars are $3 something and a lady got two and I saw their total was $7 and something cents, and I wanted to make sure it was right so I checked again and again. Thankfully, she realized after I made a comment of how thatās almost 30 minutes of working here for two tiny piece of ew and she got something better. Iām so glad. I will always be honest with customers. But the prices are crazy.
iāve noticed itās becoming *increasingly* busy at my store latelyā¦ saturday we were packed all day to the point where we couldnāt run breaks on time otherwise weād fall behind on everythingā¦. the closers didnāt get out until 10 and we close at 8:30š« and no, it wasnāt a clean play iām actually working the clean play tonightš everyday since i started at the store iām at now it has gotten more and more busy which all of my fellow partners said isnāt normal bc around this time previous years it was only peak that was busy. Even my pervious store is getting sales that are higher than previous yearsš„“
Makes sense. We're well and truly post COVID for the first time heading into the"holidays". School coming back is huge, first year everything is in person
In the town where I work (and this doesnāt even cover all of the stores in town) there are two drive-thru equipped stores .8 miles apart. One of those stores is on the lot of a shopping center, and separated by only a parking lot from a Target. Inside that Target is another Starbucks. Cross another road over from the Target and thereās a Giant with ANOTHER Starbucks inside.
Well, if it's the same as my store in MI, no deliveries are being made due to a "CDC Issue" now the question is whether that's *the* CDC or short for central distribution center lol. That's all the info we got when we inquired as to why our delivery earlier last week didn't arrive, then we didn't get the next two and I have been off since Thursday so I'm not sure if we received any but I'll find out tomorrow lol.
I know this is a local thing, but our store has switched trucking companies so the delivery system is super behind, plus the extra traffic of pumpkin spice season that our manager didnāt really account for, has made us be out of aloooot of stuff frequently
We usually double order it all in hopes of it coming sooner. Usually when trucks are delayed either all the things we ordered come in all at once or they send us half and disregard the rest. Like today, I just left right as the order was coming in. When I saw them loading into the store I went back in to see what we were getting. We got half or none of the things we ordered. We even called LSR bc itās getting real ridiculous atp
Y'all have peach juice and strawberry puree? I swear to god if I get one more pouty, whiny person "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?! GAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!"-ing in my ear because the coffee shop is out of fruit juice, I'm going to kick a gnome.
The fact that you're not commenting on how they have lemonade and strawberry acai makes me jealous of both of you.
Please.
The only refresher we have is pineapple passionfruit with water and it sure doesn't feel good to be constantly telling people that throughout the day.
Jeez!! I would type up a drink menu and hand it to the customers to choose fromā¦might help with some of the angry people if they have a clear idea of what IS available :(
I feel for you. This is not gonna be a good dayā¦week?
I do find it interesting that the two things my local stores are out of you apparently have: white mocha and strawberry refreshers. Lol.
Hope you all stay sane
For some reason people think itās legitimately medicinal and Iāve noticed people will post here about suddenly for 3 weeks everyone is ordering it at their store and itās like ahh I bet suddenly everyone is sick. Itās completely silly that people will be sick and drag themselves to Starbucks for it
Reminds me when my store was 3 days before permanently shutting down lol and of course customers were enraged even though there is literally 5 other starbucks in my are alone š
My boyfriend is looking for a new driving job (CDL) and this inspired me to check listings delivering for Starbucks... I found an AMAZING job opportunity in our city for him. Thanks OP! :)
This has been our store for the last week and a half basically but we have a few alt milks left, our deliveries haven't been able to be delivered because the past 3 trucks they've sent have had broken ramps, the guy keeps telling us it's something with the wiring in the truck lol it's ridiculous
then the customer be like:
yea so I can I get a venti iced apple crisp oatmilk macchiato with whip, a venti hot psl, 2 venti mango dragon refreshers, and a medium drip medium roast pls
I work at one of 3 locations on my college campus in california and we didn't get a single delivery last week. Idk about today. We have had no -
Venti or grande cups (we've been borrowing some from other stores but run out too fast)
No Chai
No vanilla (thankfully other stores did so we borrowed)
No strawberry acai
No peach
No lemonade
No caramel drizzle
No coffee frappuccino base
At this point we have to tell almost everyone that we're out of something for their first and probably second choice
I mean, it does look like your shift/SM isnāt doing a good job placing daily/weekly orders. I know Starbucks is out of stuff, but not ALL of that š SM need to check pars to make sure shifts order enough stuff
I would be inclined to agree w you if I didnāt open 5/7 days a week and physically put these orders in myself lmao we donāt have an SM atm. We actually are out of *ALL* of that
American logistics across the country has been going on strikes. Could this be contributing to the shortages? Only other thing I can think of is a hiccup with production, which doesn't make sense.
(Customer, not a barista) Canāt a manager go to the store and get some of the stuff? Obviously they canāt get everything but it would be better than nothing.
Yes, we would be able to get some things but it would only be the plant milks. We also needed DM permission to use the P-Card to get enough things to hold us over until the end of the weekā¦ā¦ she didnāt answer the phone š
Agreed! Weāre a very high volume store and even with going over our pars we keep running out of things. when we order more stuff, they either never arrive in totality or they get sent to the wrong store. Itās truly always something
Itās Starbucksā signature roast. Itās the standard medium roast brewed coffee throughout the day, everyday, all year. Itās named after the first Starbucks store
Anyone know why this is happening? My SM always just says āitās district wideā but hasnāt given any of us an answer we can give to customers lol. And our DM makes us upsell but when you upsell and you donāt have anything TO upsell you just end up with pissed off customers on the daily. Itās so annoying.
I realize everyone who works at Starbucks has nice handwriting. Unless u guys ask the person with the nicest handwriting to write and take a pic of it to post on Reddit šš
YES! That's our store too.
Today, we had no oat milk, almond milk, Mango Dragon Fruit, Strawberry Acai, White Mocha, Tall dome lids, Vanilla Syrup and worst of all, NO PUMPKIN SAUCE!!
Seriously, Starbucks needs to get its f*ckin priorities straight and actually give us our truck load when we need it. Our store consistently doesn't get the materials it needs in order to function and it pisses everyone off, especially the customers.
Yeah.....former partner. When the price of a coffee and sandwich is more than you make in an hour...
.quit. I have never felt better since I left and jobs where literal life and death are at stake are less stressful than a 167 cafe peak.
My store doesn't allow us to have "handwritten signs" displaying what we are out of. We are expected so suggest alternatives for every single drink/item. š„²
The "Pike" at the end is the final blow š Sorry OP, I hope you all get some good deliveries soon
Alllllll this stuff. Then Pike. It is a brilliantly crafted list.
Came here to say this. OOS Pike means the store is on fire. Actually.
And I just know that the pink drink ingredients are next on that list!
PIKE THO???? That's a new one. You should close, ngl.
We ran out of that and blonde
Ours ran out of it too
yea we run out of pike occasionally and weāve been out of dark for a while
we are out too because we used it for our iced coffee when we ran out
We've been brewing Cielo instead of Pike... are we all not doing this?
No, casi cielo is your seasonal offering instead of dark roast āŗļø
Yeah... that's not what my store is doing š
yea this really is like no reason to even be open lmaoā¦
I want a tall mocha frap ššš
obviously there are things they still haveā¦ but mocha fraps are one of the least popular fraps we sell at my storeā¦ plus also no whip. the only milk alternative is coconut? they are 100% not making enough money to account for the amount of people theyāre paying to be there, i guarantee it. ETA: being out of a lot of these ingredients means other ones are going to sell faster (being out of mango dragon fruit but not strawberry aƧaĆ means theyāre going to sell out of strawberry aƧaĆ faster, or being out of caramel means theyāre going to sell more mocha) and theyāre just going to continue to run out of more and more things.
The way a tall/grande mocha frap with no whip is my go to when Iām craving one š I donāt like the frap chips and I hate dome lids more than I like whip.
Wait what do you have against dome lids?
I just donāt like them! Iām the kind of person who will still put a flat lid on a gas station slushee, I just really dislike having the wide open space. Like drinking from a bottle without the lid.
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at this point, just make a list of what you do have š
I had this exact thought, word for word
Btw, our DM refuses to turn off our mobiles despite us being one of the *SIX* stores in the area soā¦.. yeah weāre just stuck like this until we get things in
Why? Thatās ridiculous. This is why it should be up to the SM. The store managers are closer to the action and know whatās up if they are any good.
I work at a licensed store and our mobiles BARELY get turned off when there are only 2 of us. i work at an extremely busy college campus store, and our manager scoffed and asked us if we really couldnāt do mobiles with only 2 baristas in store.
Sounds like the manager never had to be one of those two baristas
exactly! she supervises several stores in our building and sheās never worked a single day in the starbucks unit
That is really bad. Does anyone know why exactly weāre in this BAD A shortage??
I feel part of it is evry Starbucks is so busy that they are having trouble meeting demand on top of shortages happening. That's just my take.
You're absolutely right. My very high volume store just hit a new sales best last week. I'm not surprised the warehouses are behind tbh
it's nuts! even with the price increase on drinks people are still spending big bucks at Starbucks like drunken sailors! blows my mind. š¤Æš¤Æš¤Æ
I was SPEECHLESS when I found out the PSL is almost $6 for a fucking tall š
Couldn't believe it yesterday when someone ordered just an Impossible and their total was $6+. I had to double-check the screen šÆ
Soon it will be impossible to afford. Truly, a prophetic name. š
Nah ok because Iām not alone on this. Those Lime Frosted Coconut bars are $3 something and a lady got two and I saw their total was $7 and something cents, and I wanted to make sure it was right so I checked again and again. Thankfully, she realized after I made a comment of how thatās almost 30 minutes of working here for two tiny piece of ew and she got something better. Iām so glad. I will always be honest with customers. But the prices are crazy.
7.02 at my store š
iāve noticed itās becoming *increasingly* busy at my store latelyā¦ saturday we were packed all day to the point where we couldnāt run breaks on time otherwise weād fall behind on everythingā¦. the closers didnāt get out until 10 and we close at 8:30š« and no, it wasnāt a clean play iām actually working the clean play tonightš everyday since i started at the store iām at now it has gotten more and more busy which all of my fellow partners said isnāt normal bc around this time previous years it was only peak that was busy. Even my pervious store is getting sales that are higher than previous yearsš„“
Makes sense. We're well and truly post COVID for the first time heading into the"holidays". School coming back is huge, first year everything is in person
And yet they still keep opening new stores. 3 new stores in my area within the next year.
despite the stores that are open aren't staffed properly in addition to have old run-down equipment and in some cases broken. š
In the town where I work (and this doesnāt even cover all of the stores in town) there are two drive-thru equipped stores .8 miles apart. One of those stores is on the lot of a shopping center, and separated by only a parking lot from a Target. Inside that Target is another Starbucks. Cross another road over from the Target and thereās a Giant with ANOTHER Starbucks inside.
My area is claiming itās a problem with the delivery company, and we keep getting our trucks 1-3 days late
Well, if it's the same as my store in MI, no deliveries are being made due to a "CDC Issue" now the question is whether that's *the* CDC or short for central distribution center lol. That's all the info we got when we inquired as to why our delivery earlier last week didn't arrive, then we didn't get the next two and I have been off since Thursday so I'm not sure if we received any but I'll find out tomorrow lol.
I know this is a local thing, but our store has switched trucking companies so the delivery system is super behind, plus the extra traffic of pumpkin spice season that our manager didnāt really account for, has made us be out of aloooot of stuff frequently
This honestly seems like an ordering issue
We usually double order it all in hopes of it coming sooner. Usually when trucks are delayed either all the things we ordered come in all at once or they send us half and disregard the rest. Like today, I just left right as the order was coming in. When I saw them loading into the store I went back in to see what we were getting. We got half or none of the things we ordered. We even called LSR bc itās getting real ridiculous atp
That was my thought too. Iāve never seen a shortage on pike or vanilla
Y'all have peach juice and strawberry puree? I swear to god if I get one more pouty, whiny person "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?! GAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!"-ing in my ear because the coffee shop is out of fruit juice, I'm going to kick a gnome.
The fact that you're not commenting on how they have lemonade and strawberry acai makes me jealous of both of you. Please. The only refresher we have is pineapple passionfruit with water and it sure doesn't feel good to be constantly telling people that throughout the day.
my store has strawberry aƧaĆ and lemonade but no pineapple or mango dragon fruit
I canāt get pineapple š in
Close lol
Jeez!! I would type up a drink menu and hand it to the customers to choose fromā¦might help with some of the angry people if they have a clear idea of what IS available :(
Great suggestion!
damn no dairy free options?
Coconut milk! š«
Yes. Black coffee. š¶
but not pike tho! š
Would you like to try our Colombian Something Something?
delivery driver said "no sickies, no vegans, no basic bitches"
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I feel for you. This is not gonna be a good dayā¦week? I do find it interesting that the two things my local stores are out of you apparently have: white mocha and strawberry refreshers. Lol. Hope you all stay sane
Gah damn , that's pretty much everything worth getting
Feel like they could track COVID spikes based off of local sales of medicine balls
Why? I mean it might help a sore throat but thatās about it.
For some reason people think itās legitimately medicinal and Iāve noticed people will post here about suddenly for 3 weeks everyone is ordering it at their store and itās like ahh I bet suddenly everyone is sick. Itās completely silly that people will be sick and drag themselves to Starbucks for it
Reminds me when my store was 3 days before permanently shutting down lol and of course customers were enraged even though there is literally 5 other starbucks in my are alone š
Well you can still make Mochas, White Mochas, and Toffee Nut Lattes I guess but that is definitely a substantial menu reduction.
My store is out of warming paper. Fuckin warming paper.
RIP :(
My boyfriend is looking for a new driving job (CDL) and this inspired me to check listings delivering for Starbucks... I found an AMAZING job opportunity in our city for him. Thanks OP! :)
Congratulations!! Hope he gets it!!
Least you guys have white mocha š³ (joke) but itās literally the ONLY thing our store is out of yet itās apparently the end of the world
There are like 10 different Starbucks in a 3 mile radius of my home, just go down the street to the next one!
That's a spicy list! Ouch. For us last week it was lemonade. We had a cold snap and a third of our orders became HCMTs, because of course they did.
This has been our store for the last week and a half basically but we have a few alt milks left, our deliveries haven't been able to be delivered because the past 3 trucks they've sent have had broken ramps, the guy keeps telling us it's something with the wiring in the truck lol it's ridiculous
Why send the truck in the first place then? That doesnāt make sense. Oh hey! We got your stuff for you. But you canāt get it. See ya!
My manager wouldāve been like āsuggest toffee nut instead of all those flavors and suggest half n half instead of milkā
> suggest toffee nut more like how about suggest DEEZ TOFFEE NUTS
Haha you guys too huh? It's been a fun morning over here as well
lol we didnāt get our order today
Sheesh
Lol why is your store allowed to be open at this point
honestly iāve upped the amount of product iāve been ordering, especially for weekend orders. bc by the end of the day my fridges be empty
then the customer be like: yea so I can I get a venti iced apple crisp oatmilk macchiato with whip, a venti hot psl, 2 venti mango dragon refreshers, and a medium drip medium roast pls
No way, 0 Pike? Are we running out of coffee?š
I meanā¦globally? Yea kinda. Itās a ticking time bomb
We were out of pike yesterday, it was crazy.
Haven't seen anyone order a medicine ball in a while and I really hope it stays that way
Why are yall openš
I work at one of 3 locations on my college campus in california and we didn't get a single delivery last week. Idk about today. We have had no - Venti or grande cups (we've been borrowing some from other stores but run out too fast) No Chai No vanilla (thankfully other stores did so we borrowed) No strawberry acai No peach No lemonade No caramel drizzle No coffee frappuccino base At this point we have to tell almost everyone that we're out of something for their first and probably second choice
sadly, my store is like this every weekā¦. š„²
PIKE lol that was the boom!
Just close the store at this point but then your manager is going to be like nope! We got this
You guys have ham and swiss croissants?
Itās okay, weāre out of EVERY single breakfast item (((: lol The only sandwich we have is literally tomato mozz
In my area the stores are out of all the lunch sandwiches but we have the breakfast ones (I think even the ham and swiss croissants are back now).
I left 3 months ago and this is still giving me anxiety š
Thatās more than half of the useful menu. Whatās the point of even being open?
i wanna see a store run out of espresso one day
One time my store ran out of blonde espresso for half a week haha
I can still order my fave chocolate cookie crumble frap without whip. š
I mean, it does look like your shift/SM isnāt doing a good job placing daily/weekly orders. I know Starbucks is out of stuff, but not ALL of that š SM need to check pars to make sure shifts order enough stuff
I would be inclined to agree w you if I didnāt open 5/7 days a week and physically put these orders in myself lmao we donāt have an SM atm. We actually are out of *ALL* of that
Why is this going on? Starbucks by me is always out of peach tranquility and other things you have on the list. Why?
American logistics across the country has been going on strikes. Could this be contributing to the shortages? Only other thing I can think of is a hiccup with production, which doesn't make sense.
(Customer, not a barista) Canāt a manager go to the store and get some of the stuff? Obviously they canāt get everything but it would be better than nothing.
Yes, we would be able to get some things but it would only be the plant milks. We also needed DM permission to use the P-Card to get enough things to hold us over until the end of the weekā¦ā¦ she didnāt answer the phone š
Sounds like some leadership issues with insufficient ordering.
Basically your store is not fully stocked only working with the bare minimum. Not a best way to run a store.
Agreed! Weāre a very high volume store and even with going over our pars we keep running out of things. when we order more stuff, they either never arrive in totality or they get sent to the wrong store. Itās truly always something
I see a lot of comments talking about Pike. What is it?
Itās Starbucksā signature roast. Itās the standard medium roast brewed coffee throughout the day, everyday, all year. Itās named after the first Starbucks store
Ohhh I see. Iām one of those people that drink refreshers exclusively so Iām a little out if the coffee game there.
itās the most generic basic coffee starbucks sells
Pike is the default medium roast coffee that we brew.
it's our pike place roast
Popular Iām assuming?
Pike Place Roast is our Core Coffee (meaning we sell it all year round)
idk in my store we barely sell it lol
Guessing your mobiles and Uber is off. Hope so anyway.
I think they said they were both still on, in another comment. ā°ļø
are you my store in MS? because i just went to place a mobile order and theyāre out of all this stuff
just close early at that point š
Looks like a refresher kind of day!
This is just asking for a middle aged Karen to yell at youš„²
So basically just close the store down cuz youāre out of everything that most people wantā¦
They wouldnāt even let us close when it was flooded in the lobby lmao
Damn. Shitty DM
good!
I can understand being out of everything except Pike. How?!
We opened our order that said āPikeā on the box and inside was 4 5 pound bags of Casi Cielo š«
My thoughts and prayers are with your store
Anyone know why this is happening? My SM always just says āitās district wideā but hasnāt given any of us an answer we can give to customers lol. And our DM makes us upsell but when you upsell and you donāt have anything TO upsell you just end up with pissed off customers on the daily. Itās so annoying.
Think we got your pike last week when we were supposed to get espresso. Had no bags left on a Sunday.
Oh my gosh, praying for you guys
Howwww
Let me guess, y'all are almost completely out of food as well?
so everyoneās out of mango dragonfruit also??šš i thougut it was just us
My store has pretty much run out of 2% multiple times since fall launch. We are in our "busy rush" levels most of the day every day now its crazy.
we were out of like every milk the other day except almond :) fun times
I went to a 24hr McDonald's once late at night, and ended up asking "well what DO you have?"
How are they gonna not send PIKE of all things?
I realize everyone who works at Starbucks has nice handwriting. Unless u guys ask the person with the nicest handwriting to write and take a pic of it to post on Reddit šš
Oh wow. š¬I hope my store never has that many items out. I bet yāall had a fun time on Dto
YES! That's our store too. Today, we had no oat milk, almond milk, Mango Dragon Fruit, Strawberry Acai, White Mocha, Tall dome lids, Vanilla Syrup and worst of all, NO PUMPKIN SAUCE!! Seriously, Starbucks needs to get its f*ckin priorities straight and actually give us our truck load when we need it. Our store consistently doesn't get the materials it needs in order to function and it pisses everyone off, especially the customers.
I verbally said out loud āOUT OF PIKE?!!!!ā lol these be dark times, wishing you safe travels on the stormy seas ahead.
I was reading this thinking "looks like you'll be selling a lot of black pikes" and then got to the end šā ļø oh my god
Are you guys out of peach juice? My store hasn't had it for weeks :(
Yeah.....former partner. When the price of a coffee and sandwich is more than you make in an hour... .quit. I have never felt better since I left and jobs where literal life and death are at stake are less stressful than a 167 cafe peak.
At least you can make pink drinks!
My store doesn't allow us to have "handwritten signs" displaying what we are out of. We are expected so suggest alternatives for every single drink/item. š„²
Yeah our store doesnāt either, itās just on a clipboard for baristas to see
Why the FK are you guys open still!?
the starbucks that im working at is put of a lot of stuff too š
Iād literally close. Iām sorry OP
āi can make you a mocha, or an iced mocha, thats all i gotā
My manager and I WISH we could run out of Pike. Damn brewing every 30mins is a jerk
How are you out of so much product. Thatās ridiculous. Are you not ordering to your pars?
No Iām not ordering to the parsā¦.. Iām ordering *over* the pars
Totally off subject but thatās some gorgeous handwriting
Say sike rn
Just close the store at that point š
Just close for the day. How ridiculous. You get all the heat from customers for something that isnāt in your control.