Can't blame her confusion. I can't fathom why people order double frappe, mocha chai, triple venti, whatever-the-fucks.
The problem is more that they tend to assign non-intuitive names. ("No, venti is twenty. Large is large. In fact, tall is large and grande is Spanish for large. Venti is the only one that doesn't mean large.")
My mother likes to get a simple coffee with milk (latte) that is the low-fat kind (which they call a 'skinny') without whipped cream on top, so it winds up as a "skinny venti latte no foam". The people at Starbucks refuse to believe anyone would want coffee that tastes like coffee, and always want to put vanilla syrup into it or something. On a couple occasions, they even messed it up and put syrup in it AGAIN after returning it and demanding they make it over.
One of many reasons I don't care for Starbucks....
Can't blame her confusion. I can't fathom why people order double frappe, mocha chai, triple venti, whatever-the-fucks.
It's kinda nice working in a cafe that isn't Starbucks. Lattes, mochas, chai lattes, maybe a flavor syrup. People don't expect wackiness so rarely do people order it. The only thing that really continues to get in the way is Starbucks' dumbass size names: we have 12oz or 16oz cups; when someone orders a "tall" you never know if they mean 12oz or "the tall cup."
NWSiaCB said:
without whipped cream on top, so it winds up as a "skinny venti latte no foam"
Do Starbucks substitute whipped cream for foam? Our drinks' foaminess is determined by how much you let the milk steamer "bubble," it'd entertain me if they were too derpy to handle that. I don't drink any kind of coffee myself so I've never even been in a Starbucks.
Do Starbucks substitute whipped cream for foam? Our drinks' foaminess is determined by how much you let the milk steamer "bubble," it'd entertain me if they were too derpy to handle that. I don't drink any kind of coffee myself so I've never even been in a Starbucks.
There is foam from the milk, but what they CALL "foam" is actually the whipped cream. Again, unintuitive naming.
They'll also put 1/3rd of the cup's worth (or half the cup's worth if getting the small "tall") of whipped cream on top of a coffee.
