Starbucks

Regular coffee place for a typical weekday morning. The line for coffee gets really long between 8 and 9 am but the employee will offer samples of breakfast for those in line. That’s pretty nice of them.. there are decent number of seats here in additional to a bath room

one of the slowest and most inefficient Starbucks locations in the area. would be nice if it wasn’t the one attached to my office building ;(
gimme my caffeine drank right the first time, not the third… please?
also, the milk/​sugar bar is always a mess, the baristas give you attitude if you request a refill of the milk when it’s empty, and they are alwaysss out of stoppers.
meh.

This Starbucks is situated in an intersection with about 4 other Starbucks around.
Decently quick service, but the line can be long at times in the morning.
I don’t usually post reviews about Starbucks, since that would be like 20 of them I’d have to review about the same thing… but, I ordered a venti quad Caramel Macchiato and it had coffee grinds in it. I brought it back, and the barista looked at me like I was crazy and said «that’s just the caramel». Really? You don’t think I can distinguish caramel from coffee grinds, which by the way, look nothing alike. Anyways, I was flabbergasted and they made me a new drink anyways after a dirty look and my new drink still has coffee grinds floating around in it.
Maybe drinking coffee grinds is normal.

Today I had a ridiculous experience at Starbucks, 290 6^th Ave, New York, NY, Rockefeller Center, New York. I thought we pay a premium for the service so it seems ridiculous to be treated in a condescending way by Starbucks employees. Today, January 30, 2014 at around 8:45AM, when I stood up in front of the counter to pay for my coffee the lady at the counter (don’t know her name) tells me «I am going to the bathroom and she walks away». Now the funny part is that she didn’t go to the bathroom. She just stood beside the other lady at the counter so I don’t get it. She lies and then walks away on me.
Please save yourself from being harassed!

This place is horrible! Till this day, I just can’t seem to wrap my head around how horrible their service is.
Located in the heart of midtown, you would think this Starbucks branch would be able to handle an abundant amount of people. If I’m waiting 15 minutes for a drink (literally, I actually timed this), then you know there’s a major problem. I notice that the baristas behind the counter are more concerned with gossiping about each others lives than doing their jobs. The ones that are working, however, are so unorganized and ridiculously slow! There are 7 people behind the counter, laughing and gossiping (you can hear their conversations loud and clear), but it takes you 15 minutes to make my drink? Your location is key, people have to get back to work.
Unfortunately, that’s just one of the many issues with this Starbucks. My advise, avoid this place completely. You’ll thank me in the long run. If it weren’t conveniently located in my building, I would avoid it as well.

This is a unique little shop in mid-​town Manhattan, which serves and interesting assortment of mostly coffee-​based drinks, but also other hot and cold beverages and some light food items like pastries and sandwiches. They call their employees «baristas» — how cute. They have a café-​like atmosphere where people just seem to hang out sipping their drinks and using the fee WiFi. What a cool, unique place. I wish they had Starbucks where I live…
Just kidding. It’s Starbucks. Pretty much like every other Starbucks on the planet.

it’s unfortunate that my first Unilocal review will be a negative one. i’m understanding to the daily demands of primadonna coffee fiends — i’ve been a barista in the past so i know the drill.
having to make coffee runs shouldn’t be that much of a hassle, and it is, daily, because of this establishment. forget my order, get it wrong, look off in the general direction of the ceiling while i’m simply trying to order (which probably leads to all of the aforementioned)… come on now. if it weren’t for the location of this starbucks, i wouldn’t come back.

This Starbucks is located right after you exit the train station. It is good for early morning coffee runs. I only come to this one for the vanilla mini scones and thats it. No coffee or anything just the scones. I can see how this place could be over crowded. Best to come before 10am.

typical starbucks but VERY crowded and they really need someone to clean the counter where they keep the cream and sugar, etc. it was DISGUSTING.

Rude. Rude. Rude.
We went to purchase a NY mug for a friend. We didn’t know which one she wanted so we snapped a photo to text her.
The manager came over to us and very rudely told us we couldn’t do that.
We tried to explain the situation, but she kept repeating the same phrase over and over without looking us in the eye!
I could understand this behavior from a barista, but a manager? Never mind the fact that Starbucks has a very clear policy of «the customer is never wrong» (my wife was in Starbucks management at one point).
Never mind the fact that the mug designs aren’t copyrighted.
From a basic customer service perspective, this whole situation was completely absurd.

This place keeps getting worse and worse. I typically have to wait at least five minutes for a caramel macchiato and today I had to wait twice as long because they screwed up and made it an iced caramel macchiato. If I wanted an iced coffee, I would’ve asked for one! The last time I was in there, they total forgot about my order, or gave it to somebody else, and they had to audacity to look at me like I had two heads when I asked where my drink order was. I may have to start going to the regular Starbucks about one block north (between 53^rd & 54^th Streets).

These guys know my name. They’re friendly despite obnoxious customers. They make my latte right. Every time. They even tell me they will remake it if it is not to my liking. How, may I ask, can you not love these guys?
Oh, and they love the nightlife. They’ve got to boogie. On the disco ’round, oh yea.

There aren’t enough hours in a day for me to review every place I’ve ever been. But, if you piss me off enough, I will MAKE time to flame you via Unilocal.
This Starbucks is no exception and will not be spared from my wrath. There’s no seating in this particular location (as it is in an office building lobby), so caffeine junkies are allowed to get their free refills (with their registered gift cards) if they come back with their coffee cup and a receipt. Apparently, it’s more important for baristas to have in-​depth conversations with one another than to give receipts when they are requested, and I found myself in quite the predicament later in the day. A different barista was downstairs, and had the audacity to tell me that I wasn’t there earlier in the day (because I’m secretly a homeless person with an empty Starbucks coffee cup stash, YOU GOT ME THERE.). I gave her the physical description of the barista who served me earlier that morning, who she pulled out of the back office. The barista who had served me looks at me and says that she’s never seen me before. Um, are you on drugs that you have no recollection that I’m here every day? If so, I want some of whatever you’re taking! So the two of them refused to give me a refill which I was going to PAY for and refused to serve me. Not only are they getting served via Unilocal,but a nice phone call to Starbucks Corporate may be in order.