Comments on: Starbucks Drink ID Codes

By: Danny

Danny — Tue, 08 May 2012 22:11:10 +0000

No no… I think he means a Grande cup of espresso. 16 ounces (shots) of 75mg-caffeine espresso shots. Math is still off, however — that’s a scary 1200 mg of caffeine. Regardless, just as taking shots of alcohol gets you drunk faster than sipping on beer, so do shots of espresso versus a sipped coffee.

Danny, Starbucks shift supervisor

By: exstbux

exstbux — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 23:28:04 +0000

math’s a little off: a grande latte has 2 shots I believe, so that is 150 mg of caffeine vs grande coffee with 330mg. most people tend to sip their coffee because it’s hotter than a latte. lattes get consumed faster and this i think accounts for the perception that lattes have more caffeine. the effect is even more compounded with straight espresso shots.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:46:06 +0000

Stbcf would be strawberry creme frap

By: Danielle

Danielle — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:44:04 +0000

2xb

By: Danielle

Danielle — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:43:02 +0000

Xice

By: Danielle

Danielle — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:42:05 +0000

I think the book you got from amazon is outdated, by about 6 or 7 years, not all items still available and a lot have changed. All stores do it different but any barista will ” decode” your cup if you want, at least where I work, on the east coast.

By: eanowakattack

eanowakattack — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:28:33 +0000

I agree the book you have is out dated. At my store we used a lot of our own codes or varying codes. no foam could be “-F” or and F crossed out, or “- foam”, “no foam” or ‘foam’ crossed out. It just depends.
Ask your Barista, they’ll tell you what the codes are.

By: chris

chris — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 21:44:05 +0000

Lol that book is soooo outdated. We don’t have half those drinks or ingredients anymore

By: chrisalexr

chrisalexr — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:28:47 +0000

ooops sorry, my mistake. venti hot drink gets 5 pumps of syrup not 6

By: chrisalexr

chrisalexr — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:27:04 +0000

lol estee by now you’ve probably caught on. I’ve been working at a Starbucks in an Albertsons for many months now and at first it was hard remembering the drinks. Basically for most hot drinks (excluding Cafe Americanos) the number or expresso shots stay the same. A tall gets one shot and grande and venti recieve two shots. It’s the same for iced lates, except the venti gets three shots of expresso. Now for syrup (moca, vanilla, carmel, etc.) tall gets 3 pumps, grande 4, venti 6. Fraps are totally different…for the coffee roast, a tall gets 2 pumps, grande 3, and venti 4. Then tall gets 2 pumps of syrup and 2 pumps of base. if cream based, then skip the coffee roast.

By: estee

estee — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 04:12:25 +0000

i just started working at Barnes & Noble in the cafe, we sell starbucks drinks. it’s totally kicking my ass, and i can’t remember or catch on to any of the codes and what drinks get whipped cream. i’m stressing over it. someone help me

By: Rylan

Rylan — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:26:41 +0000

PSL = Pumpkin Spice Latte
PSF = Pumkin Spice Frappuccino
PSCF = Pumkin Spice Créme Frappuccino
PSFL = Pumkin Spice Frappuccino Lite

CBL = Caramel Brulé Latte
CBF = Caramel Brulé Frappuccino
CBCF = Caramel Brulé Créme Frappuccino
CBFL = Caramel Brulé Frappuccino Lite

GL = Gingerbread Latte
GF = Gingerbread Frappuccino
GCF = Gingerbread Créme Frappuccino
GFL = Gingerbread Frappuccino Lite

PM = Peppermint Mocha
PMF = Peppermint Mocha Frappuccino
PMCF = Peppermint Mocha Créme Frappuccino
PMFL = Peppermint Mocha Frappuccino Lite

SKM = Skinny Mocha
SKPM = Skinny Peppermint Mocha
(skinny means the drink is prepared with nonfat milk, no whipped topping, and is also sugar free)

PWM = Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha
PWMF = Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha Frappuccino
PWMCF = Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha Créme Frappuccino
PWMFL = Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha Frappuccino Lite

EL = Eggnog Latte
EF = Eggnog Frappuccino
ECF = Eggnog Créme Frappuccino
EFL = Eggnog Frappuccino Lite

CHEG = Chai Eggnog Tea Latte ( My Personal Favourite <3 )

Hope this helps :P

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:39:16 +0000

Im an employee at starbucks and the codes vary form store to store and staff make their own codes up between eachother

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 23:41:42 +0000

In drinks BTL = Black Tea Lemonade

By: JP

JP — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:41:45 +0000

“A Starbucks grande coffee has 330mg of caffeine. If you want to spike it, each additional shot of espresso adds 75mg of caffeine. Yes, espresso has less caffeine than coffee beans.”
NOT the truth…. a Grande cup has 16oz of brewed coffee and 330mg of caffeine, while a shot of espresso has 1oz and 75mg of caffeine. Therefore a grande cup of espresso would have 450mg of caffeine which is considerably more.
By the way,
- Espresso can be just a name of the blend and roast, it is a coffee bean and could be brewed in many different ways.
- Espresso is also the name of the brew process. So, you can virtually use any type of coffee beans to pull a shot of espresso.

By: SBux Intl.

SBux Intl. — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 12:29:11 +0000

Oh I forgot to use the Streawberries & Cream as my example as I noticed you used STB or something like that to mark the drink when here we use SB in the syrup box and CRM in the drink box. I guess starbucks language while being basically the same, there are some accents and slangs etc based on location. lolol

By: SBux Intl.

SBux Intl. — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 12:23:25 +0000

The codes does seem to differ a little because here in the Bahamas our Cream based drinks are CRM in the drink box. Example a Vanilla Cream Frappuccino would be V in the syrup box and CRM in the drink box.

By: Barista

Barista — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 02:34:47 +0000

means room for creme and sugar

By: Starbucks Worker

Starbucks Worker — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:21:31 +0000

Syrup come in pumps not shots. We use Cinnamon Dolce instead of cinnamon and that is CD. We also have Sugar free Cinnamon Dolce and Sugar Free Caramel. (SFCD and SFC). Double blended at my store was DB. Also, extra ice is XICE. Pumpkin Spice Frappucino is PSF. No water is H20 with a line through it. Alot of those syrups have been discontinued. % is 2 percent milk not half whole and half nonfat. I’m guessing you have a really old book.

By: Chad Upton

Chad Upton — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 06:08:19 +0000

You’re right that espresso has more caffeine by volume. But, I was comparing by serving because I don’t think many people order more than 2 or 3 ounces of espresso.

By: Another Starbucks Employee

Another Starbucks Employee — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 16:18:09 +0000

Actually, you’re kind of wrong about the espresso having more caffeine. There’s 16oz of coffee in a grande cup and an espresso shot is 1oz. By volume, the espresso has about 54mg more of caffeine. :)

@Katelyn Some people like room left in their iced coffee so they can add their own half-and-half.

By: Katelyn

Katelyn — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 23:42:49 +0000

What does it mean if it says “room” on the side of a cup that is an iced coffee?

By: SBUX Employee

SBUX Employee — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:52:23 +0000

@another Starbucks Worker…. At my store we use 2xBL in the custom box.

Pumpkin Spice Frappuccino=PSF
Pumpkin Spice Creme Frappuccino-PSCF

For no water in Arizona, we use H20 with a slash through it.

@Kya… For extra ice we add XICE in the custom box.

Little known tibit.. Most Starbucks stores are different. It honestly changes from city to city with different practices, cup markings, and atmospheres. :)
Good Job with most of the secrets though!

By: another starbucks worker

another starbucks worker — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 08:36:07 +0000

i found this searching for what the code is across stores as Double Blended? At one starbucks we wrote XX for double blend, another was just 2 blend

By: Starbucks n00b

Starbucks n00b — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:19:19 +0000

Just for the record, there is a code for extra ice. Frankly, there’s a code for pretty much anything additionally asked for.

I believe the code is as simple as XICE or XI. I could be wrong though; I’ve only been working for about 3 days now haha.

By: Meghan

Meghan — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 04:39:47 +0000

Actually, if milk is blank you get 2% milk by default, not whole milk. UNLESS its a frappucino, in which case its whole milk.

By: Starbucks Worker

Starbucks Worker — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 01:15:09 +0000

i work at starbucks and you have just a couple things wrong on your list….the first is the shots box just gets numbers (1,2,3, etc.) and they are added on shots if you order more. the second is what you do have listed under shots is actually the syrups and should go in the syrup box. and last for milk the default for hot and cold beverages is 2%, but for frappucinos is whole milk.
otherwise great job, this is really helpful!

By: Starbucks Worker

Starbucks Worker — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 01:14:32 +0000

i work at starbucks and you have just a couple things wrong on your list….
the first is the shots box just gets numbers (1,2,3, etc.) and they are added on shots if you order more.
the second is what you do have listed under shots is actually the syrups and should go in the syrup box.
and last for milk the default for hot and cold beverages is 2%, but for frappucinos is whole milk.

otherwise great job, this is really helpful!

By: sycamoregrad

sycamoregrad — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:15:57 +0000

Pumpkin Spice Creme frappucino would be pscf. PSFBB would be pumpkin spice frappucino blended beverage.

By: Kya

Kya — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:32:39 +0000

Aww, they have no code for extra ice or extra thick, which is how I always get my fraps =P Gonna have to see what they write on those in the future!