When someone comes in and asks for a breakfast tea, it Is NOT Earl Grey.
You have a tea with the name 'AWAKE'. That should give you a clue. How could you get this order wrong? At breakfast you want to wake up. Use your heads to try to serve tea drinkers correctly. Earl Grey is like serving a coffee drinker hazelnut. Both are a taste -- not a pure coffee or pure tea. Earl Grey is like drinking a perfume laced tea and I have been served it dozens of time when not paying attention, after asking for 'breakfast tea.'
I am going to start naming stores that don't give tea drinkers good service: The Starbucks on Rt. 110 in
Melville New York. Thanks for nothing, I am cranky enough when I wake up - I don't need you guys to escalate it. Readers, do you have a pet peeve?
14 comments:
Hello, if you want Awake, ask for Awake. Not everyone is an Earl Grey hater. I like Earl.
A gopher was getting it for me. Not me. It is up to Starbucks to know their own teas. They are the professionals. I knowthe name awake only because I have gotten the wrong tea so many times there. Black tea is a breakfast tea.
Totally agree. I don't particularly care for that Tao brand there either. I drink it only because my husband likes Starbuck's coffee. Even Lipton is better than awake. I would never drink that vile Earl Gray. Starbucks discriminates against tea drinkers. We should boycott.
Go to Dunkin Donuts. The coffee is better too.
tough crowd, tough crowd!
let's hear it for sleepy time tea all the way.
Truly Blue
Pikes Place should be put out is misery start serving something else. I also hate the fact that most stores stop serving their bold coffee at 5pm some even at noon.
But this is nothing new to them lots of folks have complained they dont care.
I used to go all the time now I only go in the mornings, is the only time I'm sure they will have fresh bold coffee.
I look at the servers in disbelief... simple hot black tea is hard to get... I have had them nuke their iced tea when I am sure they are not giving me flavored tea.
I hate it even more when they give me raspberry iced tea... or some other crud, like passion fruit. I ask, do you have "brewed regular tea?" and get raspberry? Oh, Pleaseeeeeee.
In the end it all goes back if I don't like it.
Lest We Forget,
Starbucks is the Home Depot of Coffee. They started out by opening so many of them that they put "Mom and Pop" out of business. Then, when their corporate dominance was assured, they closed many of their own stores to achieve the perfect balance of market supremacy and buyer consumption. And just when they thought they had the perfect formula to achieve maximum corporate profit, you come along and ask for something outside of their "little boxes" business philosophy. You asked for tea.
As much as I love this blog and am thankful to all I have learned through you guys, I must ask:
WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING IN A STARBUCKS?
Love, tom
Hey Tom. As I said, my gopher brought me the tea. So I actually was not in Starbucks...although I have been there in the past.
Easy solution:
1 cup of water
1 tea bag
microwave
Melville, New York? Really? Is this Eye on Miami or Eye on Melville?
When I travel I write about whatever is going on.
I had a pet peeve but she got recalled.
Boiling water must be poured over a teasbag. You can't dunk a teabag in hot-ish water, which is what most restaurants make you do. There was a long line at starbucks (in airport) so they were taking order from the back so its ready when you pay. When I got up to the counter the teabag was sittingon top of a cup of hot water that had been sitting for 5 minutes. I made them repour it. Idiots.
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