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| - I started this review on 3/7/15 which was exactly 3 years and 8 days ago but for some reason I hadn't gotten around to completing it.. Till now!!
I've been holding down the Duchess title here for almost 4 years. It all started back in 2014 when I started taking classes at UNCC and had 8 AM classes 4 days a week my first semester. As someone who is not a morning person at all it was a pretty rough few months! I needed something to help keep me awake during the 30 minute, sometimes up to an hour commute (and during class I guess) so my order depending on how sleepy I was ranged from a Tall Iced Coffee with 1 extra shot to a Venti Iced Coffee with 5 extra shots.. Thus the beginning of a caffeine addiction.
The AM crew is super efficient, like even before I started to take advantage of mobile-ordering and actually had to wait in line, I would still be out the door in about a minute a lot of times. One of the baristas, once she saw me walk through the door, she would ask "what size and how many shots today?" which I found to be pretty funny and she would go ahead and start making my drink while I was at the register.
I've found that the PM crew, although friendly, is a little slower, probably because they don't have as many people working that shift but sometimes it gets busy! You never know when the store is gonna get hit with 30 twelve year olds needing their frap fix. I usually place my mobile-order about 10-15 minutes before I need to pick it up just to make sure they have ample time to get it ready so I don't have to stand around and wait.
They remodeled the place a couple summers ago so there's more seating in here than in the past, which is nice if you're into that. For me, approximately 100% of the time, I just like to pick up my drink/food and leave cause I've got things to do!
Fast, friendly, accurate, and keeps me from being a total zombie. What more could I want from a Starbucks?
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