Caffeine Outage!

Yikes! Get your caffeine fix in right now cuz there’ll be a major outage come later today. ALL Starbucks nationwide will be closing today at 5:30 (local times) for mandatory training to “energize” its workers.

I saw this training memo at a Starbucks yesterday but didn’t read it closely and assumed it was only for that location, not all the locations across America. I have to admit that I was a little dismayed a few years back to see an automatic espresso maker at a Starbucks airport location (San Fran was it?). I was glad to see the familiar Starbucks logo greeting me at the terminal, and there was a long queue (I really don’t like the word queue, but I’ll give it a try). But caffeine withdrawal in full effect, I waited in line only to see a clueless barista simply push a button to start my drink. That let down is what this training session is targeting to get back the “Starbucks experience.”

Thanks to pulp reader, Loudicris, for sending this in.

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