No the whole drink is covered, it works the same as the free drink reward (or it did up until sept 2014 when I left, One year free woo!) I had a regular come in once and order a venti caramel frap with three shots ($1.50 at the time I believe) a banana ($1) mocha ($.60) Protein Powder ($.60-$1 I cant remember) whip…

I love how important it is to Scammer Guy that the drink is rung up to be cheap even though he’s getting it for FREE!

He purchased 365 Starbucks cards???

Jeez, it’s $15 per card minimum, so he’s paid $5000+ on starbucks cards. Sure, so long as they offer the birthday promotion, he could theoretically get a free drink every day... But there’s no guarantee at all that they’ll keep offering the promotion forever.

Not to mention the health…

The first story is one of the few BCO entries that has wrought real, cheek-reddining anger in me. The fucking marker thing!!! Do Sharpies even write on monogrammed thermoses?

Regarding the screaming woman in the pizza place: I did have an occasion once where my then 2.5 year old daughter asked me why some woman was yelling at an employee at my local grocery store. It gave me great pleasure to explain, very loudly, that the yelling woman was mean and nasty and probably very unhappy with her…

If you were getting a huge delicious dagwood pile-o-stuff type sandwich, i could see paying $$$ for it and not needing a side because it’s so huge and full of good stuff, but that up there, that “tartine” thing is not worth $3.00 let alone $13.00.

Grilling = heat from below. Broiling = heat from above. Grilling can either use a smooth surface (like a griddle or a flattop) or a grid (which leaves tasty, slightly charred grill marks).

Ah service jobs (food/retail/anything). Where pretty much everyone has at least one story that ends with “and then I went and cried in the bathroom.”

The second story reminds me of one of my wife’s tales of waiting tables at Dead Lobster while in grad school.

After reviewing the security tapes, we found out that the man had stolen my tip jar before I walked up to the counter THEN USED THE MONEY TO PAY FOR HIS GODDAMN PIZZA.

And then spray her in the face with the little squirt bottle reserved exactly for these instances of being a horrible person.

If I ever have to hand a server extra money because of how much of an asshole you are, I’d not be going to second date, let alone marrying you.

He’s going to be the person we point to and say THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS

No shit, my story would end with "There were no survivors of what came to be called "The Pizza Cutter Massacre."

Dear dining public:

This entitled housewife looks back at her impressionable child and calmly says “She is yelling because that girl deserves it, the service is terrible every time we come here.” And then she looked me straight in the eyes.

The cherry on top was walking back out after I locked my shit down and the woman’s husband was standing sheepishly at the hostess stand. He handed me a $50 bill and shook his head, saying, “I’m so sorry.”

Starbucks dude sounds like a former employee. Those kinds of loopholes in the pricing of the item, the exactness of how he likes his drink, and the overall “app malfunction” sound like someone who had inside takes at how Starbucks operates, probably got fired, but still loves the product.

I guarantee you this motherfucker brags to his friends that he’s figured out a “great Starbucks menu hack.”