Starbucks

Reviews about Starbucks

• 3 / 5

  By Matthew Rogers
  I stop here nearly every weekday, as my lunchtime iced coffee is a bit of a requirement at this point in my life. I would have given this location 5 stars, had I not just dealt with the extremely unpleasant manager.
  
  A short, dumpy, soccer-mom looking woman who apparently only shows up when she feels like it, as this was the first time I'd ever seen her (I've been coming here for well over a year now), and she doesn't wear a name tag or apron - so I don't know her name. She is obsessed with cream, which is to say that she was so driven to lecture me on Starbucks' corporate policy regarding ounces of cream, that she felt the need to bring it up not once, not twice, but three times.
  
  I order my coffee a particular way. I order it at several different Starbucks throughout the valley, mostly in Modesto and here in Atwater. I order it way too much, and spend far more than is responsible in this current economic climate for a man in my income bracket. At all these other stores, including this one (until now), the price is the same. $4.25 for an iced coffee, with minimal ice.
  
  Now, $4.25 is an exorbitant and ridiculous price to pay for a coffee, no matter how you attempt to justify it. I know this, they know this, it's a fact. I spend the money for the convenience of not having to make it myself, and because we don't keep straws at the office. I'm a pragmatic person. I am willing to waste thousands of dollars for coffee if it's easier than spending hundreds to make it myself. Call it addiction if you like, I just call it coffee.
  
  This woman was so off-putting that I really may not return to this location. I may overshoot my lunch and spend more in gas to hit the store on the other side of the freeway, or I may just stock up on extra coffee supplies at the office. I really shouldn't have to entertain these thoughts just to avoid confrontation with this horrible, wound-up little woman. But I am, and all over 1.5 ounces of cream.
  
  IF you do stop by and she's absent, then you've lucked out. The store is clean, well-staffed (so they move pretty quickly despite a huge lunch rush), and everyone there is very friendly. Their drive-thru can be a bit of a quagmire but it's not their fault - the parking lot is simply way too busy.
  
  Picture included of the offending drink. Don't let the shade fool you, it's literally about 1.5 ounces more cream than usual, because I said no ice.
  January 28, 2017