What's It Like Working at Starbucks? This Former Employee Confessed All

Gourmandize Staff, 11/08/2017

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Intensive training, "secret menu" drinks, free coffee... Here's what it's really like working at America's favorite coffee chain.

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Starbucks Junkie

Whether you love it or you hate it, odds are you've queued in a line at Starbucks at least once in your lifetime. But most of us can't say we know what it's like to be behind the counter...

Victoria Tomkinson can, though. A self-proclaimed Starbucks junkie, she was a regular at the Starbucks on her university campus before she ever considered working there. After seeing a call for applicants, she decided it would be an ideal part-time job for her and applied, and she ended up working there for the next year and a half before graduating.

Now that she's no longer employed there, she wrote a tell-all piece for the HuffPost to reveal some behind-the-scenes secrets on what it's really like working at one of America's giants...