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To find this Starbucks member of staff downright rude???

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RachelHRD · 09/12/2011 13:29

Just went to a toddler music and softplay session with DD and afterwards went for lunch at the on-site Starbucks. The 2 female members of staff in there are pretty miserable so and so's anyway - for example I bought a sausage bap, croque monsieur panini and cinnamon swirl and asked for a knife and was told 'wait a moment' ??!

Anyhoo I cut up the bap and panini for DD and I to share with the rather pathetic plastic knife and then when I went to cut up the cinnamon swirl noticed several of the plastic teeth of the knife had come off and were attached to the bottom of the cake!!

Took said cake back and despite there being only 1 customer practically had to do a star jump to get their attention Hmm and told them what had happened and could I have a new cake. They reluctantly got one and then told me that 'you have to be careful using the knives' WTF 'I used it to cut a sandwich and a bun not saw through a table!!' and that that's why they don't really give them out and they are only really meant for the pasta salads!! Cos obv you need a knife for a pasta salad!!

I was somewhat taken aback at these comments but coming home am really peeved at the rudeness and the fact that they supply something that isn't fit for purpose and lets face it - if that's what happens when you cut something those knives shouldn't be used as chances are you might end up eating some of the plastic teeth as they are so small!!

Am going to write to Starbucks I think and suggest that maybe they should provide 'real' cutlery in their stores and teach their staff some customer service skills.........

Grrr Angry rant over!!!!!

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RachelHRD · 09/12/2011 16:47

No no LineRunner twas not a swift downward thrust into the paninus (ouch) but a long cross cut of the swirl which severed the serrations....

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LineRunnerCrouchingReindeer · 09/12/2011 16:49

However a rapid and frankly quite aggressive sawing motion into the pastry results in a rather shattered and shredded paninus.

I shall repeat the experiment with a cinnamon whirl but my suspicion remains that We Have Not Heard The Whole Story.

LineRunnerCrouchingReindeer · 09/12/2011 16:50

A long cross cut of the swirl?

Let my work begin.

SoupDragon · 09/12/2011 16:54

I simply can not fathom why you were trying to cut up a cinnamon swirl. Everyone knows they are meant to be unwound and eaten in chunks. Are you mad? No wonder the staff was reluctant to give you another seeing as you had no idea out proper eating etiquette.

LineRunnerCrouchingReindeer · 09/12/2011 17:03

This was a soft swirl, right? Not a brick or old shoe?

entropyglitter · 09/12/2011 17:03

soup that is crazy talk...if you divide the swirl from outside to inside then one person gets all the crusty dry bit and the other gets all the lush moist centre....

A long slice is necessary! as long as we are talking a slice that cuts it into two half circles, rather than the ultimate long slice, which would leave you with two half height perfect spirals....

entropyglitter · 09/12/2011 17:04

I mean that would be weird...

SoupDragon · 09/12/2011 17:05

Not at all - you take turns unswirling.

Although, TBH, I don't share. I would have got the child their own and then finished it off for them.

SoupDragon · 09/12/2011 17:06

As I did in the hideously expensive cafe in the basement of Selfridges when DD couldn't finish her chocolate bunny cake. I thought I was going to lapse into a diabetic coma after I'd earn my cheesecake and finished her bunny.

lockets · 09/12/2011 17:09

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entropyglitter · 09/12/2011 17:11

soup ahhh see I untwirl with my teeth..so to reduce saliva contamination its pretty important not to keep switching.

Totally agree with not sharing though...

RachelHRD · 09/12/2011 17:19

Linerunner to be completely correct in recreating the scenario leading to severed serrations you would first need to cut up sausage bap and CM panini then leave said knife whilst bap and panini are consumed, wipe with a napkin and then do the long cross cut of the swirl. I did wonder if the cutting of heated bap/panini had somehow made the serrations brittle but really it should be up to the task of cutting all three surely Hmm...

Soupdragon I prefer the moist innards so need to cut it up to give DD the crusty tasty outer bits...

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SoupDragon · 09/12/2011 17:21

Peel them off you philistine!

LineRunnerCrouchingReindeer · 09/12/2011 17:40

That would involve the plastic heating up and cooling again and becoming friable. This is Starbucks, not an expeditionary force to Venus.

whattodoo · 09/12/2011 17:48

Oh shit. Do the black forest hot Chocolates really have 540 calories. Shit.

VivaLeBeaver · 09/12/2011 18:04

Yep, 540.

RachelHRD · 09/12/2011 18:19

Oh and to add an extra twist - the SB cinnamon swirl is square and prob double the height of your usual supermarket one Hmm I know weird but DD loves 'em....

LoL@ expeditionary force to Venus

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LineRunnerCrouchingReindeer · 09/12/2011 18:43

If she loves her cinnamon swirl so much, why were you sawing it in half to the point of giving your plastic knife friction burns in order to stuff your own face? Huh?

jimswifein1964 · 09/12/2011 19:00

So its actually a chelsea bun with a bit of spice?

JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 09/12/2011 19:01

I feel sorry for her dd, LineRunner :(

JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 09/12/2011 19:02

Some people don't deserve to have children Angry

donnie · 09/12/2011 19:02

so, it's one cappuccino, two cappuccini.

Does that mean the singular of panini is panino?

LineRunnerCrouchingReindeer · 09/12/2011 19:04

No it's from the proto-Latin. Paninus.

RachelHRD · 09/12/2011 19:08

She gets most of it honest but it is almost the size of her face so I'd be a very bad parent to let her have it all ..........

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LineRunnerCrouchingReindeer · 09/12/2011 19:13

But you've already eaten a sausage bap and a monsoon crock paninus.

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