First: If I could give the Employees One Thousand Stars I would. They are all exemplary Employees of a coffee shop. I am very particular about how my coffee is made and ask a lot of the employees including to define and or stretch to the limit what it is I may ask of them in lieu of creating my drink . In this context I have to say that each and every one of them is a spectacular service worker. That being said: this location Starbucks 3295 E. Southport Road on the SOUTHSIDE OF INDIANAPOLIS OFF I - 69 WHERE GRAY ROAD MEETS SOUTHPORT
, as derived from my daily visits , is nothing short of a bewildering, ambiguous Nightmare as far as an experience at Starbucks. It falls fantastically short of the image that Starbucks works endlessly to reinforce and advertises. Southport Rd. Starbucks is essentially an abandoned building building with some espresso machines in it. There will be a wait. There will be products they are out of.They are out of numerous things daily. Parking is horrific and arduous. Once the Drive thru line reaches out of their parking lot and almost onto Southport Road, if you are parked by their building - Good Luck getting your car out. Again - The Employees themselves are great , hard working , all that - but what I see time and time again is they can only do so much under the circumstances . They have the skills but the building themselves and the products they are sent by corporate are woefully inadequate. What I perceive is this: The most popular combination of product and service there is to purchase a Frappccino drink in the Drive thru, there are days where for every one coffee i see served in the dining room i see 100 fraps go out that window. The management, in response to various concerns over the years, continuously reference the fact that this particular store is 10 YEARS OVERDUE FOR A REMODEL . Starbucks on Main Street Greenwood has long since been remodeled - I've never experience anything at that location as I have at Southport. The repairs are endless.
The outages are endless. The "forced to close " days are endless. The Product reliability is nothing. Butter. They pretty much never have butter. Ever. Its a business that advertises certain products and I should be able to walk into that store at least 2/3 of the time get what they advertise but it rarely happens. They order it sometimes and corporate doesn't send it. Over and over again you get the distinct impression that realizing what profit can be made handing Fraps out the Drive Thru they can make much more money focusing on Drive Thu then remodeling and updating the store so that it may accommodate the Cafe customers to a more satisfactory degree but so what ? - there are other starbucks options in the Area. Right ? No. Not all of us bend to this notion. Logistically speaking given location, traffic and personal preference some people would prefer to go to a specific location and then receive the service that is assumed to be associated with and provided by their Brand. Honestly either the District manger is either totally unaware of this stores condition or does not care OR their hands are tied on the issue and Southport Starbucks has just been left out in the breeze to fend for itself .
Espresso Machines: I come in during the early afternoon and shouldn't have to say it but everything that starbucks offers should be available and consequently the machinery associated with it should be capable of providing that, However rarely are both machines running when it is necessary and for sure needed. This location takes Mobile Orders and honestly since they added that service everything at there has just bumped up into a new level of chaos. One can sit there and listen to apologies to customers for their wait all day long one right after the other. Massive blocks of mobile order tickets stack up in front of the poor in store customers standing right there and it is DAILY that customers are forced to stand and watch busy employees swarm around the tiny, tiny workspace and fill their counters with lots and lots of mobile orders and more often than not by the time they've made all these mobile orders they literally cant find the cafe drink at all. Its chaos. I cant even criticize Store Management.
I think that Starbucks Corporate simply finds no reason for an atmosphere of leadership or face to face intensive customer service or report . The Bristas are great but they are struggling constantly to deliver the products and to complete their list of tasks without the proper tools and in a building that is simply falling apart. In conclusion on the Espresso Machines - Dry storage protocol at this location. Today I arrived to most tables consumed with Merch and window signs - broken bathrooms - then they began to close the store because they had to turn off the water. I just left. I was like this isnt worth it. Even NOT- PICKY CUSTOMERS often have issues and honestly I have to tell people - avoid this location. read more