This Starbucks hack may not be worth the free coffee
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Everybody loves a good fast food hack but the latest one from Starbucks may not be worth the headache.
Kitchenette, a subsidiary of Jezebel recently published a series of stories about horrible customers at restaurants written by restaurant employees. One of the most interesting was a Starbucks barista who had a customer that has figured out how to get a free coffee every day.
Before you start patting this guy on the back, you might want to find out how.
According to the barista, the customer “purchased 365 Starbucks cards and registered every one of them online with a different birthday so that he gets a ‘free birthday drink’ EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR.” Seems like a lot of work for a free coffee.
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What makes it worse is that not only does he go into the same Starbucks every day to claim his free drink, his order is so specific that he first asks for a cup and a marker so that he can provide the following instructions:
“Two pumps of white mocha here, then add five pumps of vanilla. That should take us to this line here where you’re gonna add cold heavy cream up to this ridge here…it should be halfway between this line and this line. Make sure to add the heavy whipping cream before the espresso, it changes the taste if you do it out of order. Then add your four shots, three regular and one long shot. That long shot is important, since you guys reformulated your machines, it’s been Hell trying to get my drink right. That long shot helps balance it. Then stir it for me, Mister Brad. Now do me a favor and add ice to the top there and it’ll be easy as pie. I’m not picky so don’t worry about shaking it or anything like that.”
To add insult to injury, he also insists it’s entered into the computer as “one quad espresso, add white mocha, sub vanilla, sub heavy cream” so that it rings through as $3 instead of the actual cost of $6.50 – not that he’s paying for it.
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Beyond the fact that we can hardly imagine the amount of effort that would go into keeping track of cards and registering 365 birthdays, Business Insider claims that this hack may actually be considered fraud.
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