Flickr/calgaryreviews Alecia Li Morgan is a former Starbucks store manager. This post originally appeared on Quora as an answer to the question "What insights do Starbucks baristas get into customers based on their orders?" What can one learn about the human condition by serving coffee? More than you might think. Here's what I observed while working as a partner at a Starbucks store. They'd ask us how they could "fill every box." Some of them just thought it was fun to be seen as high-maintenance or in-the-know, and some were a bit OCD. They would normally order something that had all but one or two boxes filled and wanted to even it out. Some just liked the extra attention. But they did...
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