Jessica K.
Yelp
I have a love/hate relationship with Starbucks. I happily drive up every other day looking forward to a holiday drink or fun frappucino, then they screw up the milk selection and I'm curled up in a ball cursing their name. I swear off Starbucks for a month and then some ridiculous promotion pops up on my radar and just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in.
I have really fast consistent service for the most part and up until now, this has been my favorite Starbucks. Then I encounter someone that had to be new, bottom of her training class and not sure if she wanted to be there in the first place. I won't release her name 'cause that would be a vicious thing to do but I privately double check her order taking now because of the last two encounters we've had.
The first time, she took the order down incorrectly off a screen I showed her from the Starbucks website itself. I walked to the end of the line and waited patiently to show her the drink order was incorrect. I chalked it up to human error and went about my business.
The next day, I planned on using up a bonus reward for a sandwich and latte and I don't know about everyone else, but I get thrilled when I can use a reward for something substantial like food! I'm bummed they took away soy milk for free for Gold card members but the addition of food for benefits kind of made a teeny tiny better. Funny thing was, this girl tells me I can't use a reward for food anymore. I didn't get that memo but I didn't want the line to get longer than it was and she's the employee so I believed her and asked if I could keep my reward and pay for it like normal. Her response was, "no, it already took your reward so here's your receipt." This was the second irregularity in my transaction so again, I stepped into line to speak to someone else and it turns out that:
1. Yes, you can use a bonus star reward for food still and not only drinks
2. And yes, if you want to pay for your transaction with your card and not a bonus reward you can.
These basic rules are missed on just one member of the staff here and I bet I'm not the only one that's had a bad experience due to incompetency.
65/2014