Starbucks customer roasted for attempted drink 'hack': 'It won't work'

A Starbucks barista has exposed a customer's deceptive tactic to try get a free drink, warning people that this is not a 'hack'.

Sinead Robbins, 22, who works at Starbucks in Massachusetts in the US, took to TikTok to show what the customer did when making an online order.

"Today someone ordered a handle bag which is 5 cents (USD)," she said in the video.

She then explained that underneath the order is a text box where you can put in additional requests, which is where the customer wrote their drink order.

The 'mobile order' was then printed out by a Starbucks employee and stuck on a plastic cup.

“Hi, could I please have a grande strawberry creme frap with no whipped cream and a strawless lid,” it said in the order request message, followed by a shameless “thank you!”.

Ms Robbins slammed the customer's trickery, which proved to be unsuccessful in this instance.

"This is not a Starbucks hack," she said.

"It was a little bit funny, but it didn’t work and we just cancelled the order."

People react on social media to the 'hack'

The post has since been taken down but the comments seen by the New York Post were mixed, especially from hospitality workers.

“I worked at a restaurant and people would do this all the time and ask for extra food in the special instructions instead of paying for it??” one person said on TikTok.

“Am I the only one who would actually make it for them?? And this is coming from someone who works at Starbucks,” said someone else.

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One person said the reason they would accept the order is because they "don’t get paid enough to care".

As did someone else, who believed the customer is just "annoying underpaid workers that shouldn't have to deal with (their) bull".

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