I went to dunkin’
What did you expect? If you want a coffee, and not dirty asswater, go to an actual coffee shop.
this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2025
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Any coffee with milk is a milkshake and is for children. Drink your coffee black like your God intended.
Bro in literally every other country they press the button on the espresso machine to decide how much coffee you get
Technically you got the coffee you paid for. You got the same amount of coffee as you would have if you got normal ice. It's priced based on the amount of coffee provided not the size of the cup. The cup being not full is more psychological than anything. If we want to get real technical, the price of a coffee is mostly labor and overhead not the ingredients. Thats why a large doesn't cost that much more than a medium.
Are you a corporate apologist or something? cause your reply sounds like the most absurd logic ever. Back in 2010 I remember dunkin giving you more milk if you got a less ice coffee, it wasn't an automated machine.
No, thats just the real world dude. It's the same math that a locally owned coffee shop has to use.
Bootlicker logic spotted...
Well akshually, 🤡
This “triggered” you?
I have to say, as a therapist who treats people with actual trauma, I find it mildly infuriating that people today use the word “triggered” to refer to something that mildly infuriates them. The concept of a mental health trigger refers specifically to something that reactivates a traumatic memory and induces serious distress in the person triggered. Using the term to refer to something that just annoys you trivializes and dilutes it as a term.
I get that language is a living thing and people who use the term this way don’t mean to be trivializing the issues of people who have real trauma, but it still irks me whenever I see people use that word this way.
You do you, OP, don’t take this as serious criticism. I just felt the need to get that off my chest.
The iced latte incident. Just like back in 'Nam
The concept of a mental health trigger refers specifically to something that reactivates a traumatic memory and induces serious distress in the person triggered
the trauma or stress is that everything costs more now in the USA, and provides diminishing returns. This is definitely a trigger. Everything is more expensive, and every place is giving you less of it than they were a decade ago or more. When I was in high school around the 2000s-2010s, you go to a coffee shop, there was no malicious hyper-profit maximizing bullshit. $2-3 max for an iced latte or coffee, and you could just have it customized. You want more milk, less ice? Sure! Now everything is maximum cost, and no. No, we can't customize that, but it costs 250% more than it did 5 years ago. So yeah, it's triggering, and I can say it's triggering because we are FUCKING TIRED OF THIS SHIT. EVERYTHING COSTS SO MUCH MONEY. $6 for a coffee which is HALF ICE???? I can go get a huge ass bag of ice FOR $3!!!! Why am I paying SIX DOLLARS... FOR A CUP OF ICE?!?!?!?!?1?!?!?
On the plus side, if this is the worst part of your day, you had a pretty good day
It's not. I wish it was
Sorry to hear, I hope your day improves or that tomorrow is a better one
A lot of bootlicking going here...
OP voted with your money and next time just deny the parasite profit.
This ain't negotiation and a lot of these consumer discretionary business forgot who pays them. Too much daddy owner attitude, not enough work.
But I guess normies LARP it, so why would am owner respect the customer?
No I understand this. When someone is pricing a product, they price it off of how much it costs to make a specific amount. In this case it would be the amount of coffee in the glass given the glass has ice. Additionally when buying coffee or alcohol you are paying for the coffee or alcohol by the shot (30ish ml) and that is then diluted. For your case it would be diluted in milk. So by ordering without ice you are either going to get a diluted product, more than what you paid for or a less full glass.
I mean come on they literally gave you exactly what you asked for. What do you expect of a drink that you specifically asked for an ingredient to be removed from. Obviously you are gonna get less. They teach this shit in grade school. Would you prefer them to have just topped your cup with water, if so fucking ask ughh.
Sincerely a bartender sick of everyone's shit.
sick of everyone’s shit
This is exactly the problem with most retail employees: they treat everyone like the small fraction of scammers that exist.
If it were my coffee shop, I’d just spend the few cents to fill that cup and I wouldn’t treat it as a problem until a significant portion of people were obviously gaming the system.
Penny pinching just gives off the impression that one doesn’t care about one’s customers.
In my opinion, commerce is a platform upon which community takes place. The people are the point.
Go fuck yourself
Mods! Civility 🤡
Dude you're comparing something stupidly expensive like liquor to coffee. like what?? 10 years ago, you could get an iced coffee less ice, it had like 5 ice cubes in it. Now they just give you half the amount of coffee what the hell? How can you even justify that? If we're talking about some expensive top shelf liquor that costs $30-80 a bottle, sure, I get that. But this is literally sugary coffee and milk!
Bars/Cafes also have to buy the fucking product. Do you not have object permanence? Are objects and processes outside of your direct field of view intangible to you?
Sometimes i order a cortado/flat white (it's on the menu, i swear) and get a 16 oz paper cup filled to the top. What am I drinking?
A flat white is like a latte but smaller (traditionally around 5 oz). It doesn't contain less espresso than a latte, just less milk. A cortado is even less milk than that, it's about a 1:1 ratio of milk to espresso. Cafes may add an extra shot for those larger sizes, but frequently it just means extra milk
Yeah but traditionally they don't come in a 16 oz cup. It's basically a fuckin latte at that point is it not?
It depends on the cafe, a cortado will almost never come in a 16 oz cup. It could if they wanted to brew up 8 oz of espresso and serve it with steamed milk, but yeah, otherwise it's just a "latte". Lattes also don't traditionally come in a 16 oz cup if we're talking about the strictest of Italian classic coffee bevarages. From a technicality standpoint, a latte is a 6-8 oz coffee drink
cortado
If you went to any other coffee store that isn't a mcdonalds-ified chain, they would have given you what you wanted.
This is like you complaining about not getting a medium rare burger from mcdonalds.
In a real coffee shop you'd get a fixed amount of espresso and milk. A proper latte doesn't just add milk to fill the cup, and "no ice" isn't some hack to get an extra shot.
This is like you complaining about not getting a medium rare burger from mcdonalds.
lmfao careful commenting this, some "influencer" is gonna try that now and post it YouTube
If you ask for less ice, no screw you, you’re not getting the full amount of coffee that you paid for…
Actually you got exactly what you asked for: you asked for a product with less of something...
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I'll just get my popcorn for this. Must be some really expensive ice.
If they have a machine, you're getting exactly the full amount of coffee you paid for; you're just not getting more by removing a filler that they normally include, and that some people like. Now, I'm not saying there's anything morally wrong with gaming the menu at a giant chain if it can be done without fucking over the staff, or that it wouldn't be shitty if Dunkin' has done some sneaky shrinkflation, but there is a certain mechanical clarity here that I can't get too riled up about.
Yeah... you're be getting exactly the same amount of coffee you had been paying for before. Getting upset at how little that coffee amounts to normally is one thing, but getting upset with the notion that you are now getting -less- coffee is just silly.
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Go to a real coffeeshop.
And experience the exact same thing. A real iced latte will still be a standard amount of espresso and milk.
Except with better service, better atmosphere, and no premixed crap being spat out of a big machine, all while you support a local business instead of a multinational anti-labor behemoth.
I truly pity the cities that don't have a coffeeshop in an old photomat.
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I've never heard of a country where places give you extra drink for free just because you asked for less ice, to be honest. I know some bartenders who joke about the people who think asking for less ice will get them more.
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That's just dumb. You couldn't make it up. I guess there was plenty of vocal-fry going on too?
Do you know if it's a corporate dictat thing (so I have to eat my words)?! Anyone with any common sense would just put two of those in to fill the cup up.
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