to be fed up of coffee shops never giving me what I've ordered?

Burnt milk tastes FOUL.

{As does burned porridge or custard}

Kindly, it's scalds...

HOPING for the magic Barista!

TEPID.

SOOO many places can't make a decent coffee.

The best one I've EVER had was made by a South American in Bristol, it was hot, rich and flavourful {cappuccino}
Went back to get another next time we were there, and he no longer worked there....{he was a great coffee maker, but his English wasn't good enough, so say.
He was an asset.

But tea is usually hotter than the surface of the earth for at least 30 mins after you buy it. Why’s that, if cafes are worried about being sued?

You get crap coffee so often yet keep on buying it.

Not sure if this helps but I used to work for Costa Coffee.

The milk is heated 140°F, or 160 if extra hot. Milk burns at ~180.

Costa have a no questions asked drink swap policy. They don't advertise it any more but it's still in place. (The last time they used it widely was introducing flat whites in 2010. They told customers to try it, and we'll make your normak drink for free if you don't like it.)

However, it still applies. So if it's not to your liking, ask for it to be remade. If you like to have very, very hot coffee ask them to heat to 175. (If you want it tepid and immediately drinkable 120 is your number.)

Yeah I find a lot of coffee shop experiences disappointing. Either the coffee or the surroundings - grubby tables, crowded and overly loud music etc.

Also Starbucks, Costa and the like have a colossal amount of calories in their special festive drinks if they actually do include all the things - doesn’t seem worth it to me. Not worth the money or the calories!

I have a milk foamer and usually make an oat milk cappuccino at home unless I’m going out to meet a friend for coffee. Started during lockdown and much prefer it this way. Also make mint hot chocolates and chai lattes on the stove. I like how I can make it exactly how I like it including the temperature.

Definitely not. I've invested in some decent hot chocolate (Whittards) and nice marshmallows. Will make my own hot chocolate at home from now on!

And why do you think that is?
I have experience as a barista. We can only serve it to a maximum temperature, otherwise you would sue our ass if you burnt your mouth.

I have given up on coffee out and takeaways. The prices are not worth it. However met a friend for a coffee a few days before Christmas. They spent an age making a beautiful chocolate art on our coffees and took photos for social media. Our coffees were stone cold by the time we got them.

What I would say is this us not what I ordered give me a full refunf please but I am a miserable cow.

I am so glad that I don't do the school run right now ( for whatever reasons - I am not the autistic mum who just discarded this duty and said on here is amazing!) . So anytime I did the school run, after school, we would be buying out the whole Costa produce.

Recently when did my Christmas gift shopping in this big Tesco, went to their Costa. Ordered chai latte and took it to the car. When my husband drove off, I tried to drink from it. It was chai latte mixed milk and coffee. It was totally disgusting.

Not coffee but what drives me absolutely nuts is being served Coke Zero when ordered Diet Coke. And then being told I’m wrong it is Diet Coke. It’s not though mate, they taste completely different. That’s why they both exist. You wouldn’t just give someone who ordered sprite Fanta, so why is this so hard?

YANBU. I try to avoid Costa and the like, but 'treat' myself to their "hot" chocolate this time of year.

Most of the time it's tepid. I only recently realised you pay about 50p for a marshmallow and another 50p for the whipped cream; both are pictured in the adverts. In the motorway service station on the weekend I noticed these items were 65p more each..! So I just get a small hot chocolate plain. About £3.75. The festive caramel nutcracker one was something like £5.25 for a medium. Fuck that!

Oh my god, yes, this, 100%!

This has happened several times to me recently, and always when I order the seasonal drink. Tell me beforehand that you don’t have the stuff to make it (I’m obviously still annoyed that Nero’s didn’t have the pistachio whipped cream last week).

Naughty milk 😜

Oh this, 100%. I had a coffee the other day that took literally 20 minutes to be drinkable.

I've literally watch someone make me a normal latte when I've asked for decaff before.. then they've bare lied to my face when I've said "is that decaff"
I stood and watched them make it.. they used the normal coffee grinds they were using for all the rest of the drinks..
Milk as well. I can bloody taste the difference between milks I'm not stupid but the amount of times I've been fobbed off
The expense is shit. These are expensive coffees they should actually give you what you order.
I've had to just chuck the coffee before because I can't be certain it's decaff. I'm allergic to caffiene, get awful effects if I consume too much.
I'm now just very assertive about it. I've worked in a coffee shop so it's not that I don't know its hard.. but even at my busiest I didn't fleece people or lie to them like a twat.
I'll demand another drink.

YANBU but to avoid disappointment get yourself a good flask and make it up with regular coffee and save the dessert type drinks for at home and get all the bits in so you can enjoy it.

Bad tea is definitely a thing!
I hate big cups of scalding water with a sad, cheap teabag.

No it's because it scolds the milk.