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

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BrightOrangeDahlias · 31/12/2024 22:40

This has happened several times over the last few weeks or so and it's really starting to annoy me! It's when I order a "fancy" coffee or hot chocolate etc, usually from the seasonal range, paying a price premium for it too. It never comes with all the bits it's bloody supposed to!

It's happened in Costa (gingerbread latte that came without the cream and gingerbread man, they'd run out of both). At a service station on the motorway the other day, Starbucks (who I usually avoid) fleeced me five pounds fecking thirty (!!!) for a Chestnut Praline Latte that was missing the cream and sprinkly bits. I handed that back and asked whether I could have the extra bits I'd paid for and the man grudgingly produced a squirt of cream and muttered they had ran out of sprinkles. And today, thought I'd be ok in a local independent and asked for a s'mores hot chocolate, which was missing any type of topping. This time they were out of cream, and the guy said "you have to ask specially for the marshmallows as they're not vegetarian so we don't put them on unless you ask us to". So why have a fecking massive telly behind you advertising them with marshmallows on then?!?

Fair enough that shops run out of things, but if you've run out of half the ingredients, don't let me order it and then charge me for something you're not going to give me!

It's not me, is it?!?

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Nextyearhopes · 31/12/2024 22:41

Or when you specifically say ‘extra hot’ and you could literally stir it with your finger when it comes.

BrightOrangeDahlias · 31/12/2024 22:43

Nextyearhopes · 31/12/2024 22:41

Or when you specifically say ‘extra hot’ and you could literally stir it with your finger when it comes.

Yes, that too!

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pictoosh · 31/12/2024 22:45

Oh I do so hate a tepid coffee.

catkatcatkat · 31/12/2024 22:46

I can’t believe you forked out that much in Starbucks. I wanted a toffee nut latte but when I saw the prices I decided against it.

Nextyearhopes · 31/12/2024 22:54

pictoosh · 31/12/2024 22:45

Oh I do so hate a tepid coffee.

Loath it. A hot drink should be hot and a cold drink cold.

BrightOrangeDahlias · 31/12/2024 22:56

catkatcatkat · 31/12/2024 22:46

I can’t believe you forked out that much in Starbucks. I wanted a toffee nut latte but when I saw the prices I decided against it.

It was at a motorway service station and I stupidly didn't pay attention to the prices. I felt a right mug when I didn't even get what I'd paid for Confused

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Youngheartsalittletogetherness · 31/12/2024 22:56

Nextyearhopes · 31/12/2024 22:41

Or when you specifically say ‘extra hot’ and you could literally stir it with your finger when it comes.

Lukewarm flat white at £3.75 a go ..I return it now if it's not extra hot as ordered.

DappledThings · 31/12/2024 22:57

Nextyearhopes · 31/12/2024 22:54

Loath it. A hot drink should be hot and a cold drink cold.

I'm a weirdo who likes pretty much all my drinks tepid. Don't put ice in anything or keep anything but milk in the fridge and I've never been served a coffee in my life that first take at least 10 minutes to cool down to a drinkable temperature.

Paradoes · 31/12/2024 22:58

I only order tea now as it’s cheaper and I won’t be disappointed. Struggle to pay ;sometime 8 euro ! ) for fancy drinks

Cherrypickled · 31/12/2024 22:59

Making it extra hot burns the milk, But if you liked burnt milk,crack on.

BrightOrangeDahlias · 31/12/2024 22:59

What would you say if part of the "extras" are missing? Would it be fair to ask for a refund for the difference (say) between a normal latte with syrup and the special edition latte? It seems so petty to quibble over a squirt of cream or some sprinkles or whatever, but when it happens every time it's really annoying.

I think I should revert to my standard, non-festive earl grey order anyway. Better for my waist-line and wallet...!

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MILLYmo0se · 31/12/2024 22:59

Nextyearhopes · 31/12/2024 22:41

Or when you specifically say ‘extra hot’ and you could literally stir it with your finger when it comes.

I have the opposite problem, I drink hot chocolates and now have to stipulate 'it doesn't need to be super hot' as I keep get it scalding hot. I drink my tea black so I'm fine with hot drinks but the milk is practically burned it so over boiled.

BliainNua · 31/12/2024 23:01

Nextyearhopes · 31/12/2024 22:41

Or when you specifically say ‘extra hot’ and you could literally stir it with your finger when it comes.

'Cos they're too bloody terrified of getting sued for it being too hot 🙄😠

PhilosophicalCheeseSandwich · 31/12/2024 23:02

I hate it when this happens. If they told you before you paid etc that they couldn't make something as it's advertised, no problem. It's the fact they hope customers will just quietly accept a lesser, cheaper item at no discount that bothers me.

It happened to me in a local pub. I ordered the vegetarian roast, but they didn't have the Glamorgan sausages or whatever it is it should've come with. So they just gave me the veg and potatoes without explanation or apology.

Cherrypickled · 31/12/2024 23:02

BliainNua · 31/12/2024 23:01

'Cos they're too bloody terrified of getting sued for it being too hot 🙄😠

No it's because it scolds the milk.

Gowlett · 31/12/2024 23:02

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

TomatoSandwiches · 31/12/2024 23:02

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.

Thatcastlethere · 31/12/2024 23:03

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.

Bambooozle · 31/12/2024 23:04

DappledThings · 31/12/2024 22:57

I'm a weirdo who likes pretty much all my drinks tepid. Don't put ice in anything or keep anything but milk in the fridge and I've never been served a coffee in my life that first take at least 10 minutes to cool down to a drinkable temperature.

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

BliainNua · 31/12/2024 23:04

Cherrypickled · 31/12/2024 23:02

No it's because it scolds the milk.

Naughty milk 😜

LaughingCat · 31/12/2024 23:06

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).

ForeverTipsy · 31/12/2024 23:08

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!

Crisscrossapplesaucey · 31/12/2024 23:08

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?

SpringIscomingalso · 31/12/2024 23:09

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.

godmum56 · 31/12/2024 23:10

BrightOrangeDahlias · 31/12/2024 22:59

What would you say if part of the "extras" are missing? Would it be fair to ask for a refund for the difference (say) between a normal latte with syrup and the special edition latte? It seems so petty to quibble over a squirt of cream or some sprinkles or whatever, but when it happens every time it's really annoying.

I think I should revert to my standard, non-festive earl grey order anyway. Better for my waist-line and wallet...!

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