Starbucks Is Overrated, Here's Why: 

I love that Leah has no idea why the jumping is happening, but just goes with it anyway. 😆

Hey Team! RU-vid demonitized the original version of this video and was suppressing views like crazy on the original upload so I've reposted it in the hopes that it doesn't happen this time! Please consider sharing the video to help it get seen again! Thank you so much!

I feel like Starbucks is more about status than coffee.

Isn't RU-vid fun? 😐 I'm glad you got this re-uploaded! It's doing a lot better this time! 👍

Gotta admit, a twerking Levi was not what I expected when I clicked on this video but boy did I get laugh out of it.

For the cost of going to a Starbucks most people could own a decent espresso machine at home. I did the math on our home's Starbucks consumption and quickly learned we'd be better off with a good espresso machine. No regrets.

So I am from Brazil and here we have very few Starbucks (mostly in airports) and in my state it is a on going battle to not let a Starbucks open in here. Our state is big in coffee farming and because of the way they buy they coffee they drive the price down for the local farms what really harms the local economy.

If I want a normal coffee I’ll just make one at home for free. And their speciality drink are just waaaaaaay too sweet for me imo 🤷🏻

I worked at Starbucks and the waste (including the food waste) made me question why they even made a straw less lids.Also one of the worst jobs I’ve had, yes the benefits are good buttttt the sexual harassment, terrible management, and understaffing made me want to walk out every shift. Support your local coffee shop, trust me the quality is way better and you’re giving back to the community.

Whenever (if ever) you find a company that does keep their green goals that dance sequence needs to make a comeback!

Not to mention that some of their drinks have nearly half the calories that you should consume in one day. Yes, one coffee-drink-thing could be more than an entire meal calorie-wise.

Starbucks straws in their sippy cup lids is the most dreadful sight, it stops me in my tracks every time.

Their coffee tastes like hot cardboard water. There are plenty of far better choices, but I will give them points for consistency. It tastes the same no matter where you go. It is a little comforting if you're on a road trip or in an unfamiliar place and need some coffee. You've also got to give them points for popularizing the third space concept.

Sorry the first version got Demonitized Levi! Keep on doing your best, and don't get too stressed! The team is here for you!

I have not been to a Starbucks in years... I think its just hella expensive. I rather support a local bakery by buying it there

commenting for the algorithm gods because this channel is awesome

Looks like i have to watch again...just because youtube is strange...

Treat yourself to a local coffee shop or café. Trust me you won’t regret it.

The video we learned that Levi can juggle 😂

Come to New Zealand. Starbucks has a reputation for bad coffee and food. Starbucks is a last resort when you're looking for coffee. They arrived in New Zealand with a hiss and roar in the mid-2000s and slowly disappeared. You might find one here or there but safe to say they're not popular here.

I live in Perth, Australia and years ago Starbucks tried to break into the Australian market and opened up a bunch of stores but they didn't factor in that Australia is already littered with artisan coffee shops, so Starbucks had to close their stores because they were doing poorly in the market haha. Western Australia still doesn't have a Starbucks lol

I have pretty much eliminated my Starbucks purchasing but every year I receive Starbucks gift cards especially during December 🙃

Yeah... pre-covid I remember sitting in a McD's and watching a member of staff take the waste for the separate recycling bins, and tip it all into a bag with the general waste. I was horrified, and since then I've become so skeptical of anyone that claims be recycling their trash. 😒

You didn’t talk about the .25 to .50 cent discount for bringing your own cup!!!!! I know some stores stopped due to pandemic laws but not all. Bringing your own Starbucks cup makes it cheaper coffee price and reusing.

Happy to rewatch just for that 🕺🏼 d a n c e 🕺🏼

Starbucks is a some times monthly treat for me. It’s way too expensive to even be a weekly thing for me, but it’s nice to have it once in a while. However, their plain coffee is just not good I agree, but their cold brew is great... gotta figure out how to make that at home

Legend has it, to this day Leah still doesn't know why they were jumping

This is one of those videos that gets the attention of the company. I'll watch it 12 times if it means real change.

Love the attention on coffee production!! Moving on to your make your own coffee at home video now :). Own cups were also rejected here in Singapore

I don't usually comment, but that dance sequence makes my fingers dance across the keyboard for you.

it saddens me to see the youtube algorithm hurting my favorite creators and pushing down their views. i’m glad you could re upload this video

My local Starbucks has a bucket by the door that has a “Grounds for your garden” sign where they have grounds in old coffee bean bags. Obviously this isn’t the same everywhere but I just thought it was interesting that yours didn’t even know what it was.

Love this! I just wait until farmer's market season when my favorite coffee food truck comes to my part of town, they are the best about reusables. Keep up the great content creation!

I appreciate this video. I am saddened by the waste one company can generate on a daily basis. It has to stop! I make better coffee at home with minimal waste and go with out when I am outside. How do we help them change their practices?

I've seen MULTIPLE stores make my drink in a plastic cup, and then proceed to dump my coffee into my reusable mug that I haded them and trash the plastic one....I was so upset I even contacted corporate but they didnt do anything

I'm glad I'm not the only person who thought starbucks is overrated. I tried it for the first time last month and it wasn't anything special. Honestly, the sandwiches were bland and I had better tasting coffee at McDonald's.

Just going to add another comment here to add to the algorithm so this video gets more views. I really think you deserve that Levi!!! KEEP IT UP!!! :D

Since the last one got removed for whatever reason -______- Here it is pt. 2 FOR THE PLANET!!!!!! I appreciate you even in this day of my birth :3 you always make my weekends better Levi!

Maybe this has already been mentioned in the comments somewhere, but I know a few baristas will make your drink in a disposable cup to save time in the drive thru. This happens most often with hot drinks, but it’s mainly because our goal is to have the drink ready before the customer reaches the window. The issue with your reusable cup in the drive thru is that we then have to wait until we receive your cup to make the drink. This will then mess up our sequencing and cause the wait time to be longer. Best option is to just come into the cafe to use your reusable cup. It may be worth mentioning that if you’re looking to order a Frappuccino using a reusable cup, unfortunately I’m not allow to use you cup to make it. On the clear cups there are 3 black lines, and we use those as measurements for the milk in the frap. I have to first pour the milk into the cup to measure it, then pour it into the blender, but this can cause a cross contamination or we just simply can no longer guarantee the cleanliness of our tools. So in order to keep our tools guaranteed clean, and uninflected from anything from outside the cafe, reusable cups aren’t the best idea for fraps. I really would like to see Starbucks create a tool that we can use to measure the milk for the Frappuccino’s differently, so that the reusable cups aren’t rendered useless for fraps. I don’t use the paper cup to measure the milk in a latte, so I don’t see why I need to for the fraps. Obviously right now with the pandemic we’re not taking reusable cups, but it is also disheartening that Starbucks cups are not compostable or recyclable. They’re not even well designed cups, so it’s not as if there is a barrier stopping it from being more eco. Most coffee shops offer a better insulated cup (McDonald’s for example) that is either thicker or double walled. I will agree that it is a nice job to work. You get the odd customer that is not pleasant, but that essentially happens in all service jobs. The company treats their employees relatively well, and the baristas behind the counter tend to get along with one another. I wouldn’t say the pay is anything outstanding tho. It’s simply a minimum wage job, and typically “raises” work at 6 month intervals @1% increase.

Interesting video. The work put into it really shows! 😄

At my Starbucks in 2014, nothing was recycled. Not even milk jugs. EXPIRED food was donated once a week to a homeless shelter but the partners were allowed to go through it first. So so so so much waste. I worked at a tiny starbucks (9 employees including management) and we’d go through 10-15 4L jugs a day of milk none of which was recycled. A tip! Starbucks sill give anyone old coffee grounds if they ask. Apparently they’re useful for gardening. Oop he brought this up.

I thought I was the only one having that "making the coffee on a plastic cup then pouring on the reusable cups/mugs" issue here. That's when I stopped going to Starbucks. I've always loved making my own coffee at home. But maybe I can also try some local coffee shops here in Angeles City, Philippines! Thanks for this another great video, Levi! 🙌💚 Stay safe you guys! PS. Love that intermission number. And the last one made me chant "chug! chug! chug! chug!"

In Italy we went for a loooong time without any Starbucks because we were too proud of our own coffee culture. Unfortunately great ol' American globalization arrived there too and we have one in Milan now (maybe even in Rome? I'm not sure). Now I live in Austria where the only one is in Vienna afaik

RU-vid did what??? WTF!!! You go Levi 💪💪

Friends don't let friends drink Starbucks. Drink local. I live in Alaska and we are lucky to have some awesome roasters

I used to be a daily Starbucks drinker (sometimes up to 3 times a day, to my shame). Before I get flamed, yes, I used my own cup. Then I did the math, and realized that the actual cost was so much more than I thought I was spending. It’s definitely not good coffee - it’s mediocre at best. But it’s consistent and convenient. You know what you’re going to get, and you can get it pretty much any time of the day you want. These days I brew my own coffee. I get to choose better beans from better suppliers, and it’s saving a ton of money, and it’s even helped me dial back my caffeine intake to a much healthier level.

Thanks Levi, keep doing what you're doing!

When adding coffee grounds to soil make sure to dry it out first as otherwise it may mold. Great overall overview 👍

Just back after a "no youtube" march - love and missed your videos!

Great video again Levi !!!! Living here in Seattle I’m surrounded by Starbucks and do get there a couple times a month. Horrible to hear they don’t recycle and the cups are not recyclable 😡

Hope it works out this time! I watched yesterday but will re-watch in hopes you get the ad revenue for donation. :-)

For me, it was the most convenient and consistent choice when I only had a few big chains in my town. It was never because their coffee is that great, although I do still enjoy their (light no whip) fraps in the summer. But now we have a couple of independents who do a MUCH nicer coffee so I go there instead when I fancy a bought coffee.

Love the Alton Brown move talking to the camera in the fridge 😂 genius

Starbucks ended up closing a lot of stores in Australia because they couldn't adapt to the coffee culture, particularly in Melbourne. I live in Melbourne and typically we'll go to local independent coffee shops (or at the worst a small chain). The coffee and food at local cafes in Melbourne (particularly in inner suburbs such as Brunswick, Fitzroy and St. Kilda) is so good yet reasonably priced that Starbucks has next to no appeal. I'll go to Starbucks occasionally when I'm in the city for one of their fancier beverages but I go to local cafes way more.

Great work! Hope you get it out there even with the forced re-upload!

Love the brand reviews! Really helps me make informed decisions. Could you do a video on the brand “Live Clean” they sell soap, hair and body care. Trying to decide if they are genuine or if they are just green washing.

Love your work Levi! Great research, great filming and editing. And who could guess you would dance in a video about Starbucks. Here in Sweden Starbucks is kinda small. We have espresso house (swedish brand) and I think they are as bad as Starbucks when it comes to environmental impact.

Great Video Levi, I dont understand why people love starbucks so much, it is not good coffee. I used to drink it in my 20´s but I always hated that even sitting there I would always get a plastic cup and a straw, and then I realised all the trash I was making while buying Starbucs and I stopped buying it like 10 years ago, I dont drink coffe to go I just drink it at home before I go out and it tastes better and if I have to drink outside, I just go to a coffee shop, anyway, I hope a lot of people can look at this video and can make a better decision about their coffee. Thanks for the video! and great dancing man! Greetings to you and Leah

Starbucks is some of the worst tasting coffee. Not to mention the inconsistent preparation of the same drink across many locations.

You don’t need to be a hero to save the planet. You need to be a “twerking, fruit jingling, random dancing” hero to save the planet. 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Great content!

Barista here... We waste so much stuff at starbucks, it's disgusting. And a lot of the time, staff can't take food home with them. For example, we launched the pistachio Latte which meant that pumpkin spice was over... So what do we do? We dumped out 22 remaining bottles of pumpkin spice syrup because "it was no longer food safe". Seriously? Also, if cake pops for example are out for more than 48 hours then we have to throw them away and also can't take them home despite them being still good. It makes no sense to me. I love my job but still, some of our standards are highly questionable.

Proud to say we no longer have a Starbucks in Malmö! They moved out of the central station and never came back. Honestly I was a bit annoyed at them during the few visits I made, it seemed like they had conquered yet another city in a for them foreign country and shipped in both supplies and staff. No one spoke swedish and while swedes are good at English it felt very disrespectful. Not to mention there could have been little to no benefit for the local economy.

My friend loves Starbucks and I've had it. To be honest, I have NO IDEA why it's so famous. It's bad coffee and some people would say overpriced probably

Bro! Your videos are awesome! You crack me up. 😂

AND..........I loathe their insistence on calling small medium and large something completely bizarre!!

I usually just make coffee at home or walk down to a local shop if I want something fancier than what I can do with my set-up. But given that I'm in a career field where moving to a new city, state, or even across the country with fairly short notice is completely normal - I usually stop at starbucks a few times when I move to a new place because I want something familiar.

I don't even drink Starbucks barely see one. I make my own coffee at home. I plant and drink my coffee at home.

Starbucks Barista here, really well done video. At the branch I work at we do make the drinks in the resuable cups, pretty sad to hear other branches dont. It's hard to quantify how common of an issue this is. I work in a space with other coffee chains in the same space, I've seen where the coffee is sourced from each chain. Out of the 4, Starbucks does have the highest quality...naturally local coffee shops are bound to have better stuff though.

As a worker for starbucks, I can tell ya that youre right on it all. Its a shitty place for the enviroment and your wallet.

Me reads the title, thinks well of course, but continues watching anyway cause you guys rock. I dont even drink coffee. Learned something new -

I appreciate all of the research you do for your videos

Great coverage as usual Levi. Shame the video isn't getting the reach it normally would - commenting to give it a boost!

In all fairness there are a lot of places that don't know how to make coffee. They throw grounds in a machine that mixes them with hot water and then they toss the grounds and start again. The thing people don't realize is you'll get a better pot if you reuse the grounds. I make the coffee strong to begin with to compensate for the weaker used grounds and then I'll scoop out a spoon full of old grounds and add a spoon full of fresh grounds to keep it hardy. The reason you want to do this because coffee is very acidic which is what gives its flavor such a bitter bite and running it through boiling water removes some of its acidity. The hotter the water the better, you want that water to be rolling hot. This is what cowboys did in the old west since cream and sugar wasn't an option on the prairie or a wagon train. They also used eggshells because they helped absorb the acid as well. Now that you have some grounds with the acid boiled out you want to save them because they will still bleed and they'll give you a richer coffee that doesn't taste like lye water.

Can you do a dive into the Nespresso company and their coffee as well?

Super interesting video dude, didn’t know any of this stuff about Starbucks.

Not sure if this is everywhere, but usually restaurants (and other commercial businesses) need a private carting company to haul away their waste, the local sanitation won’t touch it. Some carting companies will “sort off site” recyclables, so everything going into the same bag does not necessarily mean it’s all going to the landfill.

Getting access to healthcare shouldn't be up to the employer to begin with. The government is supposed to look after their citizens and should be responsible for their health. access to healthcare shouldn't be a privilege..

Starbucks is 100 percent about status.....people post their coffee's,latte',SB coffee mug etc. Mostly to get on social media just to show folks like,"hey,look what I can afford"

You are one of the main reasons that i got a klean kanteen water bottle when i was looking for a new bottle. Thank you and keep the good work up.

People keep giving me Starbucks gift cards, even though I'm not a big fan of them. So I use the credit to treat others or myself if I run out of my regular coffee. I prefer Peet's, but this has encouraged me to look into their practices too. Thanks Levi!!

I worked for them for a year and the amount of waste is atrocious

We used to pick up coffee grounds at Starbucks. They'd often have good glass shot cups and barista spoons in there.

When the dance came on I spat on my phone I laughed so much! I've not tried it but puro coffee help to support local farmers and rainforests 👍

Love the dancebreak with europop in the new Kitchen!

Is my mind playing tricks on me? I’m sure I watched this video earlier.

The baristas at my local Starbucks know how to use reusable cups, so that's a plus. I even got one of theirs because while I actually have an insulated mug it's to small for their sizes. Also it takes ages until you can drink hot coffee in an insulated mug cause it just doesn't cool down. Also when I go to Starbucks I get some kind of extravagant drink that I wouldn't make myself cause if it's just simple coffee, I can do that on my own (and put it in my insulated mug if I want it on the go)

I have never understood the hype of Starbucks because all of their drinks are literally garbage. 🤷‍♀️

Couple of issues here. The biggest one talking about C.A.F.E and ethical sourcing. Starbucks not only supports the free trade initiative, but they also support the communities around the farms as well. They build schools, pay higher wages, and pay out the farms even if the crop fails to yield the promised amount (or get struck with pests or natural causes). They even flew out a bunch of managers a few years back to check out the farms in Costa Rica. After the company failing me numerous times over a decade that was one of the things left I was actually proud of telling people. Also the reusable cup initiative definitely worked, you get a discount for using one and I would argue that well over 40% of customers at the stores i've worked at use them. The confused baristas pouring them from the paper cups were most likely in drive-through stores, where they aren't going to wait until you pull up to the window to then make your drink. As far as the quality of the beans go, take the bags home and use them yourself with decent equipment and you get a much better experience -- especially with some of the limited runs they do. Check out the roastery in Seattle Levi, it's actually rad. Keep up the great content!

Great video on Starbucks..always enjoy you and your content..cheers debbie from vancouver👍⭐️🌈👏👏☕️

Fun fact CEO & Founder attended a University in the middle of nowhere for his undergrad. That university is called Northern Michigan University. That's where I attend school and we are super eco-friendly!

If you ever want to get into barista work, don't let Starbucks be your first job.... as a person whose worked and trained for multiple artisan coffee companies AND had the unpleasant experience of working for Starbucks out of pity for 3 months, I'm being honest.... between no dialing in to the espresso, resulting into a slur that looks like dishwater, no training on how to actually steam milk, and the "guidelines" that purposefully make serving a proper latte take forever and spoil the espresso before it should even be served... Starbucks is just a massive no. (not to mention the coldbrew that'd come to store in an unmarked bag that just said "cold brew) There's no way of saying it without sounding like a coffee snob, but when previous Starbucks workers would apply to other chains or shops, management would literally just deem them "inexperienced" and there was merit to it unfortunately. When I have to essentially train the manager (as an employee) of "the best store" in the city on how to not burn milk, something is grossly wrong. I've got even more stories, just from those three short months, but I'll just leave it at that. You're paying money for a brand, not the quality.

Forever rewatching just for the kitchen party segment 😎

I'd rather drink Cappuccino from Kwik Trip the gas station/convenience store.

I watched it for interest. Not a fan of Starbuck's. I hate that UVic closed Finnerty and many local bakeries weren't incorporated into other outlets on campus. The reasoning, a survey said a Starbuck's was wanted. To me it's a step backwards for UVic. Cheered when I noticed the one closed across from QV Bakery. I used to get coffee grounds from them for my garden, but most coffee places will give them to you if you ask. I don't drink coffee, but if I do or use in baking, I source organic and small local places. As 2% Jazz states -- friends don't send friends to Starbuck's. We could talk about tea and how it's sourced too.

As a super tired parent, I’m all here for the coffee talk. I can’t just get a grande at Starbucks though. I need 10 cups from home. 👀

I've never went to a starbucks and I will never go there. I think starbucks coffee is fake, it's just watered down coffee with sugar, ice, cream and milk. Support local coffee shops and other larger coffee shops.

In the ME Starbucks cooks Turkish coffee and tastes nice. Serves it even in Special Chinaware with Rahat Lokum on the side.

I love your channel! It's so relevant :)

I worked there for 1.5 days but got super grossed out by working the Frappochinno machine. Too much sugar. 😂

what I do to reduce my waste when going to Starbucks is always ask without straw (I always bring my own) and when asking for warm drinks I ask in a mug (so far never had problems). about their cold drinks I tried to ask in mug too, but they said they couldn't do it because they have the measurements in those plastic cups, so I guess they do in disposable cups and transfer because of this. one thing they could do is get a reusable measurements for doing their drinks 🤷‍♀️