It’s kind of clever.
A guy, who his barista calls Mr X, manages to get a free Starbucks every day after he got 365 Starbucks cards and registered each one to a different birthday.
Every day is then registered as his birthday and the Starbucks app thinks he is due a free birthday drink, which he shows to his increasingly frustrated barista, Brad Halsey.
Mr Halsey turned to the internet to vent his growing anger with his regular visitor and wrote an email to Kitchenette for the ‘Horrible Customer Review’ section.
In the email he wrote “even though I know exactly how he ‘beat the system,’ he pretends that his app is just malfunctioning and it magically gives him the same free birthday drink every day.”
This guy seems to be a bit of a legend, but we know if we had to serve him every day we would get pissed off fairly quickly.
This isn’t the only trick this fella pulls in the coffee shop, he is also scarily specific about his order.
According to Mr Halsey he orders an iced quad Venti vanilla white mocha with heavy cream instead of milk, and that’s the easy part.
Then he asks for a venti cup and a marker and proceeds to draw lines and arrows all over the cup with instructions.
“Two pumps of white mocha here, then add five pumps of vanilla. That should take us to this line here where you’re gonna add cold heavy cream up to this ridge here … it should be halfway between this line and this line. Make sure to add the heavy whipping cream before the espresso; it changes the taste if you do it out of order. Then add your four shots — three regular and one long shot. That long shot is important, since you guys reformulated your machines, it’s been hell trying to get my drink right. That long shot helps balance it. Then stir it for me, Mister Brad. Now do me a favor and add ice to the top there and it’ll be easy as pie. I’m not picky so don’t worry about shaking it or anything like that.”
After all that he then gets his drink totted up as a “one quad espress0, add white mocha, sub vanilla, sub heavy cream so it’s half price.
Only in America. There is no way that fella would get away with that here, he would be thrown out of the shop as soon as he asked for a cup and a marker.
Hat-tip to Business Insider
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