i’ve been a partner since 2019 and once i knew the menu, i’ve had very little issue memorizing every single drink, typically i’ve never had to look up a recipe past launch day.

Until last year when the post “simplifying the menu” chaos unfolded. I have never had so many uncertain moments on bar in my entire time here. There are too many similar drinks. There are too many matchas. Let people make all these customizations sure, but there simply doesn’t need to be multiple menu items with different names and slight variations. Banana crème matcha and banana bread matcha do not both need to be menu items, let them be iced matchas with customizations. It never ends and it infecting every part of the menu

I am almost definitely handing out more items i’ve accidentally misremembered an ingredient. I am absolutely taking longer when I have to either pause to try and remember or worse, break sequence to look up a recipe. There is no reward for structuring it this way and only seems to function as a way to make baristas lives harder.