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| - The kids working at this smallish Starbucks are pretty chill. Greeting customers as they arrived, while still working on their tasks without missing a beat.
Granted I went during the part of the afternoon when I was the 2nd customer inside this location besides the chill teens working their summer gig. But outside it is still clocking in at a "it's totally normal for Vegas" 107F at almost 4:45pm, which Trump scientists have assured us with absolute certainty that it absolutely have nothing to do with even the slightest possibility of climate change or global warming (fake science), and certainly not warm enough to ground commercial flights or wilt plastic mailboxes or fences.
How some crazy out of town tourists are still able to walk up and down The Strip in this dry heat is incomprehensible to me. Maybe they are visiting from Venus or Death Valley.
Anyway, I made yet another Starbucks visit spurred on by these Starbucks app challenges they keep alerting me to, with the promises of free drinks, bonus stars and double stars got my loyal patronage. I guess the gamer in me couldn't turn down the challenge, even though in all my other mobile games I am the freeloader that refuses on principle to spend real cash for in-game loots. But as far as Starbucks the mini-game is concern, I have somehow been induced into becoming the fee-for-play type player that I have otherwise been extremely successful in resisting across all the other gaming titles.
Anyway, it all started with those limited time and extremely coveted Groupon and Living Social deals where you pay $10 to get $20 worth of Starbucks cash, which you can only redeemed by downing the Starbucks app or reloading it onto your Starbucks card. For a few years that balance just sat there, not earning a penny in the Starbucks vault.
Then the Unicorn Frappuccino happened, and I used my credit on the Starbucks app to financed and earned a couple points (stars). Next thing I know I started to notice these challenges on my notification history.
Star Dash: Buy any two items and earn 75 bonus stars, killed it.
Menu Challenge: Buy 3 items from the menu to earn 100 bonus stars. It forced me to buy a breakfast sandwich, which I would have normally skipped. But I cleared this stage easily just like those F2P Chinese players that I imagined wouldn't even blink twice spending $100 on virtual goodies.
The bonus today was A Whole Day of Double Stars. Earning twice the stars for your Starbucks App in-game purchases.
So after just 3 days of playing Starbucks Mobile, I managed to racked up 244 stars towards the 300 stars goal in order to upgrade to Gold. Not sure exactly what that actually means, but evolving to the next stage can only mean good things right?
So I just want to thank the kiddos at the 3 Starbucks I've hit up in the past 3 days for making my experience of grinding to level up to the next level as tasty as possible.
I know I shouldn't keep playing this game, but I am pretty sure I will find it difficult to resist the next Starbucks challenge. Until then stay cool and hydrated. And for making my orders without ever messing up!
Oh, this location has two gender neutral restrooms that are super clean! Kudos.
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