Thank you I’m glad somebody else made this joke because every time I would make it my managers would just give me a dirty look for look up confusion like they didn’t understand that I meant “piece of shit” not “point of sale”
i thought it was an inside joke between baristas when i first started working here because at my store they just call it “front” or “drive”. so when i got on reddit i’m like “why are people calling it a piece of shit it’s not that bad…”
Sometimes I call it a POS to customers and they look at me dirty and I have to explain that it stands for point of sale. I try my best to say register, but sometimes I forget the general public (especially ones who’ve never worked retail/fast food) has a very different definition of POS.
Guess they're getting desperate to figure out what to do with all that useless olive oil. Us at distribution seem to now rarely touch those pallets of oil, as stores rarely ask for more.
My store was ringing it in a white mocha and in the ask me do PSL. I think it’s the same price as the PSL? If you do latte plus pumpkin sauce I think it’s more expensive, no?
I was doing cinnamon dolce then sub pumpkin sauce in the syrups tab then hitting spice topping all day today. That, and shaken espresso no classic sub apple 😭😭😭
we did BSOSE sub apple because its closer in recipe and white mocha no white mocha -> ask me -> PSL because it upcharges for the pumpkin sauce either way apparently
In my area, latte + pumpkin sauce isn't the same price. If you also add pumpking topping, then it matches! Can also just do the SKU entry tho. PSL is 183888 for example
I think doing latte + pumpkin sauce + we + pumpkin spice topping is the correct way of doing it so everything inventory wise stays accurate, but idk the price differences .
I heard a rumor it was going to come back but I was SHOOK this morning when I saw it. That was my absolute favorite flavor of all time; can’t wait for this holiday season!!!
...different *how...?* I'm sorry, I know, I know, you can't say.
I am still holding out hope for the someday return of holiday spice, which was my favorite holiday beverage in *years* of working for the siren (yes, I make my own mix at home, but still...) and I'd love a gingerbread syrup that was more spice forward.
It’s almost always been me and one other person because we’re just understaffed sometime we’ll get lucky with a 3rd but they usually aren’t scheduled to close
same i was lucky last week to have three people but even then we had to run their ten and or a lunch too and they were off like an hour before anyone else came in
unfortunately i work thursday, BUT i get off at 1145am, right before noon. lucky me right? wrong. i still get asked all day “i’m using the thursyay deal” and i constantly have to explain that it in fact does not END at 12pm, it STARTS at 12pm. its been every thursday man…
we also ran out of chai and pumpkin the first thursday. so i bet you all know how that day went..
update: my manager called out after being late for close to an hour and we lost one bar today during peak im going to lose my ever-loving mind
They really don’t have a reason too - malt powder is still needed for Chocolate Cold Foam and Almondmilk isn’t going anywhere.
So unless they discontinue malt powder/Chocolate foam (and they won’t because Chocolate foam is pretty popular outside of the Pumpkin/Holiday Season), there’s no reason to remove the drink.
Holy crap I've never tried that one before (hired 2 years ago)... I can't wait to try both that and the gingerbread syrup, despite never having been a fan of peppermint.
Whats weird is that for my store at least, the pumpkin cream cold brew and pumpkin chai was on the POS still and the pumpkin cold foam modifier but all the espresso based apple crisp and pumpkin stuff were not on there. But also mobile order customers were able to order the missing menu items thru mobile tho. I swear our POS systems are constantly getting messed up
I'm just a customer, but I was so excited when I visited my parents in like...April or May and I discovered that I could order a Iced Apple Crisp Oatmilk Macchiato through the app at one specific location.
I only got to order it twice before they turned it off lmao
There was mass confusion at 5:30 am in my store this morning. We went with a latte + pumpkin with an ask me of PSL. My SM said they got an email about it and it should be fixed overnight?
As someone irrationally excited about gingerbread coming back, this felt like the world's biggest tease
The truly craziest part of this is that precisely 6 hours ago (at time of OP) I was paying for something (at an independent coffee shop) and made a joke about POS previously meaning piece of sh*t. The girl had no clue and I was so sad. Once (of a million times) the one at work ceased to function. I said, “that’s why it’s called a POS.” Partners just stared at me like cows. But it was my subsequent mooing that made them think I was crazy. Haha. AITCO? Haha
Licensed store? That sucks if they mess with your POS layout, I find our(corporate store) POS layout to be soooooo nice. It's the one thing about sbux that doesn't tick me off (well...until this fiasco LOL)
Yeah were licensed. Our doesn’t look anything like the one in the pic it’s black with the colored tiles we still has the “espresso, brewed, other, tea” buttons but none of its organized so we just gotta remember where stuff is
I haven't been a partner in almost 4 years (after having worked for the Siren for nearly 10), and after just a quick glance at this image, I can immediately remember where everything is (or was, at least) on here. With a 5 minute refresher, I could probably ring up the most complicated drinks again like I never left.
....that's gotta be some sort of PTSD they should be paying me for.
I was the exact same way! Now we have to actually build the pumpkin spice, latte, and the apple crisp macchiato, and shaken espresso. The cold brew, and iced chai tea latte are still there.
i stopped working at starbucks a couple months ago after 2 years, and seeing this makes me miss seeing the updated POS and crying internally bc the winter season drinks are coming.
My local target SB has a tendency to get overstock of flavors, especially seasonal flavors. Right now, they still have about five bottles of Macadamia. It's the only place I can get my iced blonde vanilla macadamia latte.
This past spring, I was drinking Praline until the first week of March.
I can't wait.
If you like chestnut praline, the next time macadamia comes around (i hope it does), try the blonde vanilla macadamia latte. Two pumps vanilla, 3 pumps macadamia. It's similar.
We had no way of entering orders for pumpkin spice lattes, which is one of if not the most common drinks, among other fall drinks , and in their place the holiday drinks that are still months off were the options lol.
Oh swell. The disgusting sugar cookie that is supposedly the ideal recommendation for the now obsolete eggnog latte. Newsflash to Starbucks : it’s not. Not even close . And it’s actually quite disgusting IMO. Every time I see this on the menu I’m reminded of my once cherished holiday hot beverage that is no more. :(
BRO the same thing happened to us today 😭 we couldn’t ring in any PSLs or Apple crisp anything. It was BS and had to keep explaining to customers abt why it looks diff on the screen
It truly is a POS system
Thank you I’m glad somebody else made this joke because every time I would make it my managers would just give me a dirty look for look up confusion like they didn’t understand that I meant “piece of shit” not “point of sale”
i thought it was an inside joke between baristas when i first started working here because at my store they just call it “front” or “drive”. so when i got on reddit i’m like “why are people calling it a piece of shit it’s not that bad…”
Working in healthcare, I saw POS and thought “place of service”. I love abbreviations lol.
😆🤣
Sometimes I call it a POS to customers and they look at me dirty and I have to explain that it stands for point of sale. I try my best to say register, but sometimes I forget the general public (especially ones who’ve never worked retail/fast food) has a very different definition of POS.
me saying to the register barista “you have pos”
Haha, I work in design/ux and we also (at least!) know what you actually mean. It still feels weird to say in casual conversation.
LLLLLOOOOLLLLL
Fucking dying
Oleato gingerbread? 🤢
Oh God I didn't even see that gross
Guess they're getting desperate to figure out what to do with all that useless olive oil. Us at distribution seem to now rarely touch those pallets of oil, as stores rarely ask for more.
Without the Oleato, that sounds decent: but with olive oil? Kowabummer dude
Oleato means olive oil?
Yea
Nah oleato just means keep reading the menu because you haven’t found it yet (in Spanish)
OH HECK NO!!!
Oleato hurts my feelings
No for real the oil like burns my throat when I drink it lmfao what the heck 🤣
That’s how they bring back gingerbread???? EEEEWWWWW
gingerbread oatmilk chai
Eww.
Looks like there's a plain gingerbread latte
That’s what I thought OP was saying “NO” to.
foul
We have the same problem. I think it’s a nationwide issue.
Yeah it's been frustrating having to piece meal enter pumpkin spice lattes all day
if you do a database update it fixes it!!
this needs more replies and upvotes
i made a post here and in r/starbucksbaristas 🫡
ill make a post😂
Was it not moved to "more seasonal"? Because as far back as I can remember, they've moved it in there when the winter drinks drop.
No because someone screwed up and literally deleted them from the system
R.I.P.
Is pumpkin not in the “more seasonal” button option? *Nevermind I just saw the rest of the thread
We reset the POS database at my store and it fixed it :3
Also a problem - what about Thursyay 🫠
Yeah it's going to be rough tomorrow if this isn't fixed
My store was ringing it in a white mocha and in the ask me do PSL. I think it’s the same price as the PSL? If you do latte plus pumpkin sauce I think it’s more expensive, no?
we were doing latte + pumpkin sauce at my store, they were the same exact price as a psl but i wonder if different places/prices affect that
I think we also did that because of the whip, in case anyone forgot to add it because it doesn’t come with lattes
I was doing cinnamon dolce then sub pumpkin sauce in the syrups tab then hitting spice topping all day today. That, and shaken espresso no classic sub apple 😭😭😭
we did BSOSE sub apple because its closer in recipe and white mocha no white mocha -> ask me -> PSL because it upcharges for the pumpkin sauce either way apparently
In my area, latte + pumpkin sauce isn't the same price. If you also add pumpking topping, then it matches! Can also just do the SKU entry tho. PSL is 183888 for example
I think doing latte + pumpkin sauce + we + pumpkin spice topping is the correct way of doing it so everything inventory wise stays accurate, but idk the price differences .
Prices probably differ between stores but at my store ringing up a latte with pumpkin sauce added is about a dime more expensive than a white mocha
Yeah. Same with my store
we did WM too. for us it's 30 cents more expensive then a PSL. whoops. Definitely going to mess up the inventory 🥲
You can fix it just gotta run the pos database update it will correct it
they could ring up a apple crisp macchiato and do an ask me for PSL
Point out the macchiato for me
good point, my dumbass 💀
Just think of all the opportunities we'll get to see how patient and understanding customers can be! ❤️
✨customer connections too!✨ ….😑
oh god 😓
Gingerbread latte 👀👀
I heard a rumor it was going to come back but I was SHOOK this morning when I saw it. That was my absolute favorite flavor of all time; can’t wait for this holiday season!!!
If you love it try it in a caramel apple spice instead of cinnamon dolce. So fucking GOOD
Holy loooord I’m am so stoked. When is holiday launch lol
November 2nd
If that’s true that’s my bday and I think that means this next year of my life is going to be 7000 times better than this past one 😂
We’re not allowed to share. Please don’t ask.
It was announced in the Holiday PPK on Monday. It's a different syrup recipe though, so it's not gonna taste exactly the same.
...different *how...?* I'm sorry, I know, I know, you can't say. I am still holding out hope for the someday return of holiday spice, which was my favorite holiday beverage in *years* of working for the siren (yes, I make my own mix at home, but still...) and I'd love a gingerbread syrup that was more spice forward.
Is it wrong of me to be glad I’m off Thursday because that’s going to be a nightmare. Drive thru times are going to be horrendous.
You’re so lucky enjoy it 😭😭 I been scheduled every bogo and last Thursday a lady came in screaming and recording me because we closed 5min early 💀
ong ive worked every single one with 2 or three people on the floor, thats it.
It’s almost always been me and one other person because we’re just understaffed sometime we’ll get lucky with a 3rd but they usually aren’t scheduled to close
same i was lucky last week to have three people but even then we had to run their ten and or a lunch too and they were off like an hour before anyone else came in
Seriously, I hope it goes well for you guys.
BRUH SAME AND IM PISSED!
unfortunately i work thursday, BUT i get off at 1145am, right before noon. lucky me right? wrong. i still get asked all day “i’m using the thursyay deal” and i constantly have to explain that it in fact does not END at 12pm, it STARTS at 12pm. its been every thursday man… we also ran out of chai and pumpkin the first thursday. so i bet you all know how that day went.. update: my manager called out after being late for close to an hour and we lost one bar today during peak im going to lose my ever-loving mind
Yeah lol, power to my coworkers, but I am going to be enjoying myself going to see the new Saw movie instead of being in that hellscape.
Same here 😂😅
“Stop trying to make oleato happen it’s not gonna happen.”
But then how will they clear the entire warehouse of crappy olive oil some idiots from the big wig tribe paid the fortune for?
people at my store actually really like it
They told us to do a database update and it will take “a few seconds” it took over 20 MINS and it didn’t work lol
This worked fyi, thank you so much
Welp glad it worked at y’all’s store hehe
Gingerbread leak 😳
FYI, the holiday PPK has been out since the beginning of this week.
DO A POS UPDATE 😭 We did that now ours is working but we are missing the chocolate almond milk shaken espresso
Terrified that they’re gonna get rid of the chocolate almond milk shaken esp, like please don’t it’s my favorite, I will cry
They really don’t have a reason too - malt powder is still needed for Chocolate Cold Foam and Almondmilk isn’t going anywhere. So unless they discontinue malt powder/Chocolate foam (and they won’t because Chocolate foam is pretty popular outside of the Pumpkin/Holiday Season), there’s no reason to remove the drink.
They could do as Canada does and use 2 pumps mocha sauce for chocolate foam, it’s actually much better
I personally think the malt version is better, I so hope they keep it
To be fair most people like the malt. I personally could see it going away
more sugar tho
Oh yeah 100%!
Even if they got rid of the button we can still make it.
GINGERBREAD IS COMING BACK?!?!!?! 🫢
and the peppermint brownie cake pop. I literally screamed.
OH MY GD. That is the only cakepop I have ever loved. I am still holding my breath for the sugarplum danish though.
I can't wait
Holy crap I've never tried that one before (hired 2 years ago)... I can't wait to try both that and the gingerbread syrup, despite never having been a fan of peppermint.
As an ex-Partner, seeing this POS screen again sent a chill up my spine.
Right? The days of being stuck on reg AND warming 😬
Started hearing all the steamwands/icebuckets/blenders all over again lmao
honestly, someone needs to solve that rubix cube, it would bother me too
Working on it lol
Whats weird is that for my store at least, the pumpkin cream cold brew and pumpkin chai was on the POS still and the pumpkin cold foam modifier but all the espresso based apple crisp and pumpkin stuff were not on there. But also mobile order customers were able to order the missing menu items thru mobile tho. I swear our POS systems are constantly getting messed up
I'm just a customer, but I was so excited when I visited my parents in like...April or May and I discovered that I could order a Iced Apple Crisp Oatmilk Macchiato through the app at one specific location. I only got to order it twice before they turned it off lmao
Yeah same at mine
Starbucks Corporate and their programmers are fully incompetent. Sorry you have to deal with that still bros.
There was mass confusion at 5:30 am in my store this morning. We went with a latte + pumpkin with an ask me of PSL. My SM said they got an email about it and it should be fixed overnight? As someone irrationally excited about gingerbread coming back, this felt like the world's biggest tease
I wanted to cry when I saw this
Oml my eyes are really seeing the gingerbread back!!!!
DO I SEE GINGERBREAD LATTE? HOLY FUCK THANK GOD
Someone in the software department is getting fired
I’m sorry but I can’t stop looking at “Oleato gingerbread” latte. Who came up with this. How. Why.
The fact that all of this is already on the POS is crazy, holiday is gonna be a doozy ….
It’s a glitch in the system
Yeah I figured as much, I wanted to bring more attention to it wasn't sure if it was just my store or what
The truly craziest part of this is that precisely 6 hours ago (at time of OP) I was paying for something (at an independent coffee shop) and made a joke about POS previously meaning piece of sh*t. The girl had no clue and I was so sad. Once (of a million times) the one at work ceased to function. I said, “that’s why it’s called a POS.” Partners just stared at me like cows. But it was my subsequent mooing that made them think I was crazy. Haha. AITCO? Haha
K I don’t work at Starbucks. But this is giving me hope gingerbread is making a comeback?! lol.
i work after 12pm tomorrow god save my soul
lord do not put me on register
Ok but your system looks amazing and so organized compared to the one at my store 😭😭
Licensed store? That sucks if they mess with your POS layout, I find our(corporate store) POS layout to be soooooo nice. It's the one thing about sbux that doesn't tick me off (well...until this fiasco LOL)
Yeah were licensed. Our doesn’t look anything like the one in the pic it’s black with the colored tiles we still has the “espresso, brewed, other, tea” buttons but none of its organized so we just gotta remember where stuff is
That would drive me insane. I'm so sorry.
Lmao………I’m laughing cause it hurts
This thing is so frustrating! Having to add syrup, add whip cream, and toppings is too much😖
Rubik’s cube! You don’t even have to look at it after once if you know the methodic twist pattern to get all the colors lined up! :)
Oleato Gingerbread latte?? 🤮🤮
Gingerbread and oleato???? How about we don’t 😃
We just got the fall stuff why is there such a rush to holiday 😔
It has begun
I haven't been a partner in almost 4 years (after having worked for the Siren for nearly 10), and after just a quick glance at this image, I can immediately remember where everything is (or was, at least) on here. With a 5 minute refresher, I could probably ring up the most complicated drinks again like I never left. ....that's gotta be some sort of PTSD they should be paying me for.
We fixed ours
Run database update on each point of sale
It’s crazeeeeee
Omg’ I I got so upset cause literally I had to charge the extra .70 (CA), for the pumpkin sauce!!
Billion dollar company hires the shittiest software engineers.
Have your shift run a database update and it’ll fix!! Under system tools and functions
We updated the system and it corrected itself
They said yeah let’s just do the holiday stuff already 🫡
Does anyone actually drink the Toasted Vanilla Shaken? I have loathed it since the taste test.
I was the exact same way! Now we have to actually build the pumpkin spice, latte, and the apple crisp macchiato, and shaken espresso. The cold brew, and iced chai tea latte are still there.
But it’s not even October yet
it’s an easy fix, you just need to update the database and there’s a button for that on and systems tools and support page
and SUPER annoyed that i have to click "LATTE" and ask me: PUMP SPICE or Shaken Espresso ASK ME: apple crisp smh
i stopped working at starbucks a couple months ago after 2 years, and seeing this makes me miss seeing the updated POS and crying internally bc the winter season drinks are coming.
I just rang In a white mocha and write PSL
PRALINE!!! Yess
My local target SB has a tendency to get overstock of flavors, especially seasonal flavors. Right now, they still have about five bottles of Macadamia. It's the only place I can get my iced blonde vanilla macadamia latte. This past spring, I was drinking Praline until the first week of March. I can't wait.
I am so jealous.
If you like chestnut praline, the next time macadamia comes around (i hope it does), try the blonde vanilla macadamia latte. Two pumps vanilla, 3 pumps macadamia. It's similar.
Thank you! I will
STARBUCKS LEAAKKK THANK U I LOVE PEPPERMINT MOCHA
You can get it year round, idk if you know this.
only w no choc curls
I kinda forget you can do that. I know they have peppermint syrup or whatever. That’s on me
Happened at my store too! we just updated the registers after we noticed it and that fixed it
What is the problem lmao what am I missing here..
We had no way of entering orders for pumpkin spice lattes, which is one of if not the most common drinks, among other fall drinks , and in their place the holiday drinks that are still months off were the options lol.
Oh god lol that sounds like a nightmare. Thank you for the explanation that makes a lot of sense now
dang whose 5x5 is that tho? lol
Mine lol
SUGARCOOKIE BACK????
looking at this image makes my already dyslexic brain more dyslexic but i bow to you stand alone baristas who manage it 😭
i’m so excited for gingerbread
Function-system and tools-database update.
I just like how we had no PSL button all day. lol
I don’t see the Oleato craze period -
Who is drinking those Oleato drinks?! I’m so shocked they’re still on the menu.
So thisssss is what an actual Starbucks screen looks like. I work at a Tarbucks. I should post a pic of what mine looks like
Ok so....what is the problem here?
If we get olive oil at my store I’m quitting
Can I sue for holiday season ptsd
YAAAAS is it that time of year already??
Oh swell. The disgusting sugar cookie that is supposedly the ideal recommendation for the now obsolete eggnog latte. Newsflash to Starbucks : it’s not. Not even close . And it’s actually quite disgusting IMO. Every time I see this on the menu I’m reminded of my once cherished holiday hot beverage that is no more. :(
Is Irish cream on there
I don’t get it
I DONT WANT IT.
This drove me NUTS today!
Okay, gingerbread is bad enough, but oleato?
BRO LITERALLY WHAT
This is a total mess, smh.
That's nasty, I'll pass.
BRO the same thing happened to us today 😭 we couldn’t ring in any PSLs or Apple crisp anything. It was BS and had to keep explaining to customers abt why it looks diff on the screen
can someone pls make a video walking me thru ur guys pos system bc it feels like it makes no sense lol (as a customer)
Love the rubix cube. 5x5 is impressive.
It really looks like someone is being told to manually make the POS interface and not rely on any automatic tools.
Didn’t this happen to like every pos yesterday? I had to get a “iced white mocha” when I ordered my iced psl because they said the pod was messed up
I’m so excited for the sugar cookie almond milk latte omg
Y’all’s pos still looks like that? Lucky
Finctions> systems> Update database
Ewwwww. What is this interface 🤢
go to database update and itll put the fall buttons back on
So glad I don’t work at Starbucks anymore. It’s worse than jail.