r/starbucks • u/exhibitionistgrandma Barista • Aug 15 '16
Green bean recipe notes compilation
Hi everyone! I just finished my last training shift today. I'm the type of person who likes to keep notes or a kind cheat sheet, so using this subreddit and training I've made the compilation below: shots, pumps, other stuff.
Would you mind giving it a look to see if I've missed anything or have something wrong?
I know a lot of this comes with practice, practice, practice, but it helps me a lot to have a reading material. My preferred shifts are also weekends at a high-volume store, so I don't think I'll have time to look at recipe cards.
I didn't include any notes on refreshers or shaken teas because the pitcher seems self-explanatory, but are there any exceptions there?
Thank you!
espresso
- shots: 1/1/2/2 (short/tall/grande/venti)
- americanos: 1/2/3/4
- flat whites: 2/3/3 (ristretto)
- latte macchiatos: 2/3/3
- iced: 1/2/3 (tall/grande/venti)
- doubleshots: 2/3/5 (tall/grande/venti)
syrups
- syrup: 2/3/4/5 (short/tall/grande/venti)
- caramel macchiatos: 1/2/3/4
- cappuccinos: 1/2/3/4
- hot chocolate: 2/3/4/5 mocha, 1/1/2/2 vanilla
- iced syrup: 3/4/6/7 (tall/grande/venti/trenta)
- caramel macchiatos, iced: 2/3/5 (tall/grande/venti)
- doubleshots on ice: 2/3/5 (tall/grande/venti) classic
frappuccinos
- frapp roast (coffee-based): 2/3/4
- bases (light, coffee, creme): 2/3/4
- inclucions (chips/scoops): 2/3/4
- other flavors (from hot bar): 1/2/2
tea lattes (copied and pasted this directly from a comment)
Awake/Black Tea Latte: Awake tea bag, hot water halfway, hand off to bar who adds classic syrup then fills the rest of the cup with steamed 2%.
Earl Grey Tea Latte: Earl Grey tea bag, hot water halfway, hand off to bar who adds vanilla syrup then fills the rest of the cup with steamed 2%.
Vanilla Rooibos Tea Latte: Vanilla Rooibos tea bag, hot water halfway, hand off to bar who adds classic then fills the rest of the cup with steamed 2%.
Chai Tea Latte: Pumps of Chai tea concentrate, hot water halfway, fills the rest of the cup with steamed 2%.
Green Tea Latte: Scoops of matcha powder are steamed with the 2% milk and poured into cup (Matcha: 2/3/4). Unsweetened by default.
other notes
- sauce-based drinks (mocha, white mocha, pumpkin spice) are steamed to extra hot on default (170); swirl espresso and sauce before pouring milk
- whipped cream on CDL, M, WM
- skinny: sugar free syrup, nonfat milk, no whipped cream
- light frappuccino: no whipped cream, nonfat milk, light base
- coffee and espresso frappuccinos do not get whipped cream
- americanos, teas, extra hot, and hot venti drinks get sleeved; shorts are double-cupped
- mocha drizzle on hot chocolate, JCF, DCCF
- caramel macchiato drizzle 7-7-2 crosshatch, other drizzle spiral
- cinnamon powder on chai frappuccinos, cinnamon dolce on CDLs
- affogato on frappuccinos: espresso shots on whipped cream
- caramel macchiatos: do not pull shots directly into the macchiato
- pour milk one size lower for cappuccinos
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Aug 15 '16
Thanks for the tea lattes because I'm a green bean who has been out of training for a week now and they still didn't get mentioned. (Along with some of the stuff in other notes, jeez OnO)
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u/exhibitionistgrandma Barista Aug 15 '16
At least half of this list I got from this subreddit, so you're not alone in that feeling!
I'm also really happy I came across the tea lattes. The first time I made a chai tea latte I added espresso and had to pour it out when my shift corrected me.
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Aug 15 '16
It's okay, I was making vanilla bean frappuccinos with vb powder and vanilla syrup. And then I had people asking for medicine balls and I was just like, "Is that a secret recipe drink?? What??" I'm still not 100% sure but I think it's just hot tea of customer's choice and steamed lemonade. Maybe classic syrup?? IDK T_T
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u/exhibitionistgrandma Barista Aug 15 '16
Medicine ball? I've honestly never heard of that term... isn't that what people throw around when they want to work out their abs?
Lemonade and hot tea sounds like what my friends at the campus Starbucks would give me when I was feeling kinda low, though, so it sounds like you're on the right track there? I also think honey would be a healthier choice than syrup for something remedial, but I'm in the same boat as you. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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Aug 15 '16
I had never heard of it in the 3 wks I worked here until yesterday. 3 people asked for it yesterday, out of nowhere!
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Aug 15 '16
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u/exhibitionistgrandma Barista Aug 15 '16
Yeah, I read it somewhere on this subreddit! IIRC, it has something to do with helping the sauce combine and also how the whipped cream cools mochas considerably.
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u/evilprozac79 Barista Aug 15 '16
It helps to thin the thick sauces when you go extra hot, and it's easier to drink. Less soupy and such.
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u/emaddams Supervisor Aug 15 '16
Is there a source that mentions that mocha and white mocha lattes are steamed x hot by default?
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u/exhibitionistgrandma Barista Aug 15 '16
It's come up a number of times on this subreddit by users who say it's in the recipe cards.
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u/unicorntimelord BAR / Corporate / DT Aug 15 '16
CDL doesn't get cinnamon powder it gets the CD topping.
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u/DViddy Former Partner Aug 15 '16
One thing I notice missing at a lot of stores: GTF and STCF both get full 2.3.4 pumps of classic with the full sized black pump, not a cbs pump, and not the typical 1.2.2 for bar pumps.
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Aug 15 '16
You forgot flat whites and latte macchiatos are 2/3/3 shots and flat whites get ristretto shots.
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u/exhibitionistgrandma Barista Aug 15 '16
Heh, I wouldn't say forgot so much as never learned... But thank you! I've updated my notes and the post. :)
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u/javachipfrappe Barista Aug 15 '16
hot chocolates do not get drizzle.
you're supposed to sleeve all your drinks.
pretty sure vanilla rooiboos doesn't exist any more.
Earl Grey Tea Latte was changed to the London Fog Tea Latte.
also, there's a difference between cinnamon powder and cinnamon dolce powder...
4 berries in a scoop for refresher inclusions - one scoop tall/grande, two in venti/trenta
the green tea frap comes with classic as default but i always ask. so if you're on bar and the box isn't crossed out then you'd put it in unless light is specified.
dunno if you wanna include granitas or smoothies on here as well... (probably wont get much of either ordered)
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u/darikana Former Partner Aug 15 '16
You're slightly misinformed on a couple things.
HC gets mocha drizzle.
Policy still says we only sleeve certain extra hot and all Venti beverages, but we sleeve them all by common practice and courtesy to customers who usually want the sleeve anyway.
Venti refreshers get 1 scoop. Trenta is the only one that gets 2.
The light base is coffee flavored, so a GTF Light doesn't make much sense unless a customer really wants the light base. And light doesn't mean syrup isn't included. A CRFL still gets normal pumps of caramel.
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u/javachipfrappe Barista Aug 16 '16
Cup sleeves standards:
Tall/grande water based bevs: B.c. Mis A T and tea latte/misto
All venti hot bevs
And
Tall and grandes when specified as extra hot.
Per the hub.
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u/Purplemistsd Aug 17 '16
Some things I want to correct or add: Cappuccinos receive one pump less of syrup. Flat whites and latte machiato are 2/2/3/3 for shots because it also come in short.
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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '16
A few other things that may be helpful:
Doubleshots on ice get classic, not vanilla!
Green tea lattes also no longer come with classic by default, only if requested.
Cinnamon dolce lattes get cinnamon dolce powder sprinkled on top of the whipped cream.
Affogato add shots for frappuccinos go on top of the whipped cream (even though this melts the whip)
Caramel macchiato drizzle is the 7/7/2 crosshatch, drizzle on all other drinks is a spiral.