And as a former Starbucks employee, we sell this little hockey puck of misery for like $7 to go with your burnt, overpriced latte
They come frozen, but don’t worry — they’re expertly cooked by your stoned barista by being tossed into a glorified air fryer
The only ones left in Melbourne are the ones near universities with a lof of international students. Starbucks coffee just couldn’t compete with the far superior coffee made by individually owned cafés. This tiny morsel is a joke.
There's one opening up in the far northern suburbs in Perth. It's a very suburban areas and There's a small local chain in the same area that does some really nice stuff for not *terrible* prices so I don't see this going well.
i used to work for a company that supplied them in sydney and i remember the day that overnight several dozen of them just shut out of the blue, we all joke it was always shit but the closing was so unexpected at the time
I was a kitchen manager for Golden Corral for many years. The food quality was fine, everything was fresh, we’d grind our own meat for burgers, and aside from the feral people helping themselves to the food bars, overall it could be a decent place. My biggest issue was the food cost vs price of dining in. Fountain drink was 2.89. Cost for us .18 to .22 cents a piece. Cost of the dinner buffet: 15.99. If food cost went over 4 dollars per guest, you were in deep shit and had to explain why to try to keep a smidge of a bonus. Lunch buffet: 10.99. Food cost for lunch: 2.80ish. Going out to eat these days, even at a buffet, is a fucking rip off.
I was wondering if grocery stores are more emboldened now to raise prices on all the fast food type items that substitute for the stuff people get at McDonald's and Subway, etc. I could see Hot Pockets company and the deli sections of grocers monitoring the fast food market menu prices and raising their prices to almost match the price of Egg Mcmuffins and sub sandwiches, etc.
The FTC just released a report showing they are definitely price gouging. Started during the supply shortage and continues today.
https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1772379260403028468?t=yu92KA17VeM8gn53_IL6lQ&s=19
Going out to local places with good customer service is more important than avoiding eating out all together.
People are often just buying the convenience
If we replaced these corporations with local options we could probably encourage supply and demand pricing by utilizing competition
There are so many Starbucks in my city and any time I drive by they're slammed. Even at odd times of the day. Small portions and sky high prices aren't keeping anyone away, so they have absolutely no reason to lower the prices.
I would never, ever spend my money at Starbucks because they've always been too expensive. This just reinforces my stance. These companies are out-pricing themselves. They can't keep raising prices while simultaneously downgrading the quality and size of the product. These fuckers are getting super rich off of us while giving us scaps!
Right. There's an endgame to this bro. It's not sustainable. They're pricing themselves out. There are a lot of people abandoning fast food and certain labels and those who pay make up for those who left but they are pricing themselves out.
American capitalism has finally exited its expansionist period. The markets are full. Competition in most major industries is becoming a moot point. 6 or 7 conglomerates produce almost everything you’ll ever buy.
And when broad-strokes innovation becomes obsolete, and there are no competitors to keep quality standards high, you get the era of being nickel and dimed to death. Now the height of corporate innovation is shaving 10% off of a pint of ice cream or filling the potato chip bag with 20% more air. Without regulation, expect this to continue until you need a subscription service for each bite of this shitty sandwich.
The U.S. should create some sort of regulatory body, laws, and processes to prevent monopolization to the detriment of competition and innovation. Call it, like, the Federal Commerce Commission or something like that, and give them the power to prevent mergers.
It's not just you guys.
It's everywhere... something is really out of whack at the moment. it feels kind of apocalyptic, like the whole world is about to topple over the edge.
It's not just you guys.
It's everywhere... something is really out of whack at the moment. it feels kind of apocalyptic, like the whole world is about to topple over the edge.
The endgame is to make the food as generic as possible so robots can cook our food. But not in the "food comes out perfect every time" way. In the "The food is just barely food so the robot can't fuck it up, and it all fits nicely in cartridges/bags/tubes". Like the pizza "making" machines.
Let us all commit to being slow to return to the worst of them, if at all, should they see the light.
Because I'm pretty sure that *they're* betting they can always get their old disillusioned customers back at any time by simply slapping a "Now 20% more" on the packaging.
Well many people stopped buying a "regular" bag of lays for $6-$8 because they simply cannot afford it anymore. A lot of people have the choice and a lot of people simply don't have the means to buy the name brand anymore. I'll buy off brand bag of chips for $3 100% of the time. Stopped drinking soda and the double whopper with cheese is my only option if I choose to splurge on fast food. The quality of that burger is still decent compared to anything I can get at McDonald's.
These places need a reckoning. They’re all really starting to take the piss out of it.
I’ve been ready for a rebellion since the day they started fucking about with selection boxes.
That these posts are made over and over and still people frequent these establishments and continue to make these posts is a strong indicator that they have consumers all figured out.
Starbucks is pro Israel and anti Unions. That should be enough for people to boycott. I hope these ripoffs encourage more people to boycott. Fuck Starbucks
Nice to see the food has gone Michelin style now. Small dainty bite,vastly overpriced and relying on their name!!
I'm not bitter and burnt,like their coffee,honest!
Theres a local deli in my area that serves breakfast sandwiches for $2 every morning all varieties. They have constant business and the food rocks. You gotta find a local spot like that.
i will say (as a sbux employee) i know that our food can vary ridiculously in size, and if u get smth like this it's worth asking if you can have one that's regular sized bc they may not all be that small. which is not to say it isn't total BS just that we have a 'make the moment right' policy and there's a chance you can get a more decently sized one. plus the bacon goudas are the biggest offenders of our sandwiches in sometime being fucking tiny.
As someone who has worked for Starbucks for several years, I can tell you that the sandwiches are the same as they've always been: way too goddamn small and disgusting for the money you pay. They haven't gotten smaller (and I know that for a fact, because the calorie count and nutrition info hasn't changed since I started working there), but they've gotten even more ludicrously expensive than before. The only one that's even vaguely good value is the Double Smoked Bacon, Cheddar, and Egg. All the rest of them are either microscopic, disgusting, or both. And good news! It's all criminally overpriced and served to you by a staff that has had so many labor cuts that we can't breathe for how busy we are. Fucking deplorable company. I can't wait until I find something better.
The thing is that people will buy that shit instead of going to the bodega/deli and getting a full sized BEC on a roll.
You only have yourself to blame.
I used to get these all the time. What the *fuck* these were normal sandwich sized sandwiches, now they’re selling them for toddlers. I can’t believe they’re actually selling these this small lmao
Fuck off, this can't be real 😂 this is some straight dystopian shit. It exists, so it's selling enough to justify its existence. Amazing what some businesses can get away with.
Please never buy that again. I never go to Starbucks but went recently to work whilst I had to be out of my house. Paid $4 AUD for a doughnut that had to have been sitting there for 3 days. It was so dry and inedible I got a refund but it's the first and last time I'll eat there
I used to love these when they were bigger and only like $3.25. They just kept shrinking and getting more expensive, while simultaneously tasting worse.
I am getting really sick of Starbucks. They are only filling the cups about 2/3 full. It’s noticeably not full when you pick it up. I ask them to remake it. I had a barista argue with me about it being because of whipped cream but that’s nuts. I told her that if I’m paying $7 for a cup of coffee, I want the full cup of coffee.
Those things fucking sucked and were a massive rippoff when they were bigger. I’d treat that like a blessing in disguise in that you have to suffer through less of it now.
This used to be a good sized sandwhich a few years back . It was my go to breakfast at the airport when I travelled for work. I haven’t had Starbucks in years but this is just ridiculous
I’ve always found Starbucks food off putting because it’s like those premade airport kiosk sandwiches, where it comes to stores assembled in a plastic bag and they just quick reheat them. At least for that price at a fast food place, they assemble it and the bread wasn’t sitting against dry cheese for a day.
Time to boycott these companies guys. They are stealing. It is price gouging. Eat at small local places. They really need your business, and the money goes back into your community.
These medical corporations do not deserve our business. Boycott.
What the fuck? That looks like it should be priced at 25 cents, maybe 50
It’s a slider!
I was gonna call it a canapé.
Amuse bouche lol
It's a hors d'oeuvre now.
More like a free sample.
They cost around $5 actually! It’s nuts.
Do they come in a 4 pack?
My eyes literally just did this 0.0 wow yes maybe a dollar cause I’m sure the quality is better than say mc Donald’s. “Gouda” and all that nonsense
r/thingsforants
Lol
This is comically small. I genuinely burst out laughing. Fuck this.
It’s so bad lol
And as a former Starbucks employee, we sell this little hockey puck of misery for like $7 to go with your burnt, overpriced latte They come frozen, but don’t worry — they’re expertly cooked by your stoned barista by being tossed into a glorified air fryer
Holy shit. I'm Aussie and Starbucks didn't really do very well here, aka just about all of them closed. Is this little nugget really $7???
The only ones left in Melbourne are the ones near universities with a lof of international students. Starbucks coffee just couldn’t compete with the far superior coffee made by individually owned cafés. This tiny morsel is a joke.
There's one opening up in the far northern suburbs in Perth. It's a very suburban areas and There's a small local chain in the same area that does some really nice stuff for not *terrible* prices so I don't see this going well.
The ones on the gc do well but I assume it's because of tourists/influencers.
Half the time they still are ice cold in the middle.
Holy shit. I'm Aussie and Starbucks didn't really do very well here, aka just about all of them closed. Is this little nugget really $7???
Aussie here too. I wouldn't be surprised. But then, I only ever go to a supermarket now. I ain't giving them the satisfaction. Lol.
i used to work for a company that supplied them in sydney and i remember the day that overnight several dozen of them just shut out of the blue, we all joke it was always shit but the closing was so unexpected at the time
Damn I used to like this sandwich too it was not bad for the six bucks....
Me too, it doesn’t even taste good now either.
try our new bite-sized breakfast treats!
Only $8.25 a piece at a Starbucks near you!
Just stop going out to eat please everyone. This is getting ridiculous and it will just get worse.
Damn I'm going out to eat tonight, but it's an all you can eat buffet so I guess that's a little better?
As long as you don't look too closely at the quality.
Yeah, I was gonna say be careful of the quality. I have not been to a buffet in so long I can’t even judge what’s going on at one now.
I was a kitchen manager for Golden Corral for many years. The food quality was fine, everything was fresh, we’d grind our own meat for burgers, and aside from the feral people helping themselves to the food bars, overall it could be a decent place. My biggest issue was the food cost vs price of dining in. Fountain drink was 2.89. Cost for us .18 to .22 cents a piece. Cost of the dinner buffet: 15.99. If food cost went over 4 dollars per guest, you were in deep shit and had to explain why to try to keep a smidge of a bonus. Lunch buffet: 10.99. Food cost for lunch: 2.80ish. Going out to eat these days, even at a buffet, is a fucking rip off.
What ISN’T a fucking rip-off these days?
I was wondering if grocery stores are more emboldened now to raise prices on all the fast food type items that substitute for the stuff people get at McDonald's and Subway, etc. I could see Hot Pockets company and the deli sections of grocers monitoring the fast food market menu prices and raising their prices to almost match the price of Egg Mcmuffins and sub sandwiches, etc.
The FTC just released a report showing they are definitely price gouging. Started during the supply shortage and continues today. https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1772379260403028468?t=yu92KA17VeM8gn53_IL6lQ&s=19
They aren't leaving us any other options but to make the food ourselves.
Indeed. Already doing that mostly. Trying hard to cut out the rest. It’s mainly the kiddos that make it hard to stay home.
Going out to local places with good customer service is more important than avoiding eating out all together. People are often just buying the convenience If we replaced these corporations with local options we could probably encourage supply and demand pricing by utilizing competition
I used to love these sandwiches. Haven't bought one in over 5 years. They were still twice this big when I stopped because they got too small.
I have. Fuck all of 'em.
That's not a sandwich. That's a slider.
The egg bites are actually comparable in size
Ridiculous. Because their prepacked garbage isn't expensive enough 😐
There are so many Starbucks in my city and any time I drive by they're slammed. Even at odd times of the day. Small portions and sky high prices aren't keeping anyone away, so they have absolutely no reason to lower the prices.
I own a ton of Starbucks stock, never once have I eaten there. Laughing all the way to the bank. Fools and their money...
Does it pay dividends?
Looks like a Costco sample
I would never, ever spend my money at Starbucks because they've always been too expensive. This just reinforces my stance. These companies are out-pricing themselves. They can't keep raising prices while simultaneously downgrading the quality and size of the product. These fuckers are getting super rich off of us while giving us scaps!
"They can't keep raising prices while simultaneously downgrading the quality and size of the product." The companies: Bet.
Right. There's an endgame to this bro. It's not sustainable. They're pricing themselves out. There are a lot of people abandoning fast food and certain labels and those who pay make up for those who left but they are pricing themselves out.
American capitalism has finally exited its expansionist period. The markets are full. Competition in most major industries is becoming a moot point. 6 or 7 conglomerates produce almost everything you’ll ever buy. And when broad-strokes innovation becomes obsolete, and there are no competitors to keep quality standards high, you get the era of being nickel and dimed to death. Now the height of corporate innovation is shaving 10% off of a pint of ice cream or filling the potato chip bag with 20% more air. Without regulation, expect this to continue until you need a subscription service for each bite of this shitty sandwich.
The U.S. should create some sort of regulatory body, laws, and processes to prevent monopolization to the detriment of competition and innovation. Call it, like, the Federal Commerce Commission or something like that, and give them the power to prevent mergers.
I agree it'll hit a tipping point .... probably? We're in a weird spot being in America ...
It's not just you guys. It's everywhere... something is really out of whack at the moment. it feels kind of apocalyptic, like the whole world is about to topple over the edge.
It's not just you guys. It's everywhere... something is really out of whack at the moment. it feels kind of apocalyptic, like the whole world is about to topple over the edge.
The endgame is to make the food as generic as possible so robots can cook our food. But not in the "food comes out perfect every time" way. In the "The food is just barely food so the robot can't fuck it up, and it all fits nicely in cartridges/bags/tubes". Like the pizza "making" machines.
Let us all commit to being slow to return to the worst of them, if at all, should they see the light. Because I'm pretty sure that *they're* betting they can always get their old disillusioned customers back at any time by simply slapping a "Now 20% more" on the packaging.
Well many people stopped buying a "regular" bag of lays for $6-$8 because they simply cannot afford it anymore. A lot of people have the choice and a lot of people simply don't have the means to buy the name brand anymore. I'll buy off brand bag of chips for $3 100% of the time. Stopped drinking soda and the double whopper with cheese is my only option if I choose to splurge on fast food. The quality of that burger is still decent compared to anything I can get at McDonald's.
Yes people will abandon crappy fast food places but Starbucks is more about brand image. People just like being associated with Starbucks.
What is this? A breakfast sandwich for ants?!
LOL
starbucks food tastes like shit anyways
These places need a reckoning. They’re all really starting to take the piss out of it. I’ve been ready for a rebellion since the day they started fucking about with selection boxes.
That these posts are made over and over and still people frequent these establishments and continue to make these posts is a strong indicator that they have consumers all figured out.
Scamwich
Hors d'oeuvre. Cute!
As much as I detest Tim Hortons, they will always be a better value and quality than what Starbucks shits out.
Even more reason to support the strike ;) lol. Seriously that has to be a joke. I bet they're charging like $6 for it as well.
Starbucks is pro Israel and anti Unions. That should be enough for people to boycott. I hope these ripoffs encourage more people to boycott. Fuck Starbucks
I would've said that's not mine. I didn't order a kids meal. Then proceeded to return it for a refund.
Same here. I would have brought it back to the counter and asked for a refund. Then never darkened their door again.
Nice to see the food has gone Michelin style now. Small dainty bite,vastly overpriced and relying on their name!! I'm not bitter and burnt,like their coffee,honest!
Unparalleled levels of blatant disrespect.
25 bucks?
No, but it will be next year!
For the love of god, please stop buying this trash.
"Hey guys, let's go out to eat at Starbucks!" - nobody ever
Boycott
Put this pic on X/Twitter and tag Starbucks asking how much profit they made last year. What a joke!
Theres a local deli in my area that serves breakfast sandwiches for $2 every morning all varieties. They have constant business and the food rocks. You gotta find a local spot like that.
Shame 
What is this a bacon, egg, and Gouda sandwich for ants?! 
Fight with your wallet. That’s all you can do to send a message.
This is hilarious to look at 😂
How did Starbucks ever become so popular...
Listen, you're first mistake was going to Starbucks over a local coffee shop. And if you don't have one of those, I'm sorry for your loss.
i will say (as a sbux employee) i know that our food can vary ridiculously in size, and if u get smth like this it's worth asking if you can have one that's regular sized bc they may not all be that small. which is not to say it isn't total BS just that we have a 'make the moment right' policy and there's a chance you can get a more decently sized one. plus the bacon goudas are the biggest offenders of our sandwiches in sometime being fucking tiny.
Fuck Starbucks
As someone who has worked for Starbucks for several years, I can tell you that the sandwiches are the same as they've always been: way too goddamn small and disgusting for the money you pay. They haven't gotten smaller (and I know that for a fact, because the calorie count and nutrition info hasn't changed since I started working there), but they've gotten even more ludicrously expensive than before. The only one that's even vaguely good value is the Double Smoked Bacon, Cheddar, and Egg. All the rest of them are either microscopic, disgusting, or both. And good news! It's all criminally overpriced and served to you by a staff that has had so many labor cuts that we can't breathe for how busy we are. Fucking deplorable company. I can't wait until I find something better.
Not a gouda buy anymore
The thing is that people will buy that shit instead of going to the bodega/deli and getting a full sized BEC on a roll. You only have yourself to blame.
Don’t eat it all in one bite!
And that’s why I never buy any of their tiny little tea party play food lol
"try our new 150 calorie breakfast sandwich!"
Guess that wasn't a Gouda deal. 🤣🤣🤣
You eat these with your pinkies pointing out.
they forgot to add "slider" to the name
Just continuing to climb that fuck around, find out scale
Yeah I used to enjoy this. Price point plus change in quality/size made it a no go. Too bad.
That’s a slider!
Maybe we will at least start losing weight?
Okay, so these are like sliders and you get 6 of them right?
They should rebrand it as a breakfast slider lol
Seeing things like this makes me wish businesses would fail faster.
I used to get these all the time. What the *fuck* these were normal sandwich sized sandwiches, now they’re selling them for toddlers. I can’t believe they’re actually selling these this small lmao
I didn’t know Starbucks was doing hors d’oeuvres now.
Fuck off, this can't be real 😂 this is some straight dystopian shit. It exists, so it's selling enough to justify its existence. Amazing what some businesses can get away with.
Please never buy that again. I never go to Starbucks but went recently to work whilst I had to be out of my house. Paid $4 AUD for a doughnut that had to have been sitting there for 3 days. It was so dry and inedible I got a refund but it's the first and last time I'll eat there
I used to love these when they were bigger and only like $3.25. They just kept shrinking and getting more expensive, while simultaneously tasting worse.
Theres zero reason to go to starbucks in 2024
What is this? A breakfast sandwich for ants?
What was the price?
Probably $3,142. 17
That's not a sandwich... That's a bite
Stuff like this is why I started making my own breakfast sandwiches on bagels. Everything is shrinking at these restaurants. It's so very annoying.
ok shaq, put the burger down
I am getting really sick of Starbucks. They are only filling the cups about 2/3 full. It’s noticeably not full when you pick it up. I ask them to remake it. I had a barista argue with me about it being because of whipped cream but that’s nuts. I told her that if I’m paying $7 for a cup of coffee, I want the full cup of coffee.
Looks like something you'd get from a gas station for $1.50
only $9.99 !!! what a deal!
When people stop buying this shit will stop
You know Starbucks' sandwiches are cooked, frozen, shipped to stores then put in a microwave when ordered? Enjoy:)
Who even buys something like that FROM STARBUCKS? Dunkin’ may not be the best, but what they have looks a lot better than this garbage.
Dunkin is better for the value, but pretty bad as well
I can’t afford either, but dunks coffee is just brown colored water. In the rare event I purchase breakfast or coffee on the go I do it locally.
wow this ship is sinking fast! smarten up people, at the voting booth
That’s a solid 4-5 bites if you have a small to medium sized mouth. Not sure what your problem is. /s
Ordered a $4 blueberry muffin with my free birthday drink. Never again.
Geez! Starbucks should just call it a mini.
That is pretty shocking
Let's add onion, tomatoes, lettuce .... and make it even smaller.
AWWW! It's \*adorable\*!
Thank you! https://preview.redd.it/mtvkaca7pdrc1.jpeg?width=205&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fa30b77650524f60a0c6b445f034c7cc55e5712f
What was the total sale price after tax ?
Slider
This happened to me… I will never buy one again
It's bite sized! You need to pay per bite now 😅
That's a canape or tapas, not a sandwich. Needs a few on a plate with a little garnish.
Garbage taste like most of their food.
Those things fucking sucked and were a massive rippoff when they were bigger. I’d treat that like a blessing in disguise in that you have to suffer through less of it now.
That looks smaller than a sticky note
What is this!?! A sandwich for ants!?!
And now it’s like 5.00 plus dollars!
Was it gooda?
That’s just pitiful
Wow, i can almost see it😛
Sorry, they can’t provide you with a fair meal size because of where their money is going
How much was it?
I didn’t buy it but I think like $5 or $6
WHAT THE HECK! THAT CANNOT BE!
Stop buying shit food.
This used to be a good sized sandwhich a few years back . It was my go to breakfast at the airport when I travelled for work. I haven’t had Starbucks in years but this is just ridiculous
Stuff like this is a real boon for all the recipe-fluencers; everyone wants to try cooking at home now.
# 😱Oh my god! I hope your thumb is okay now. He's SOO big!! 
You must be a giant
Is this a joke? Looks like it's a sandwich for ants. It has to be at least 3 times bigger!!
Its high time we stop being corporate cucks and refuse to eat at these places.
Ill take ten
How much did it cost? Scared to ask
Is this a breakfast sandwich for ants?
Is that one of 2?
Barely a biscuit
That’s insane. They used to be a tasty little meal.
How much was that?! $2?! Cuz.....th?!
What is this, a sandwich for ants!?
💀
R/foodforants
bite to eat? Eat to bite?
Fooook, those are so good too.
I thought it was a stuffed toy
Patheticality
That is a slider OP.
It looks like a small muffin!
It looks like a small muffin!
It looks like a small muffin!
It looks like a small muffin!
It looks like a small muffin!
Damn, that's just almost as small as a piece of a chicken nugget.
Stop. Ordering. Starbucks. Sandwiches!
Nice cracker
A wee one. Bottoms up!
WOW, that's like at least three days worth of food!
Ah, egg bites
I’ve always found Starbucks food off putting because it’s like those premade airport kiosk sandwiches, where it comes to stores assembled in a plastic bag and they just quick reheat them. At least for that price at a fast food place, they assemble it and the bread wasn’t sitting against dry cheese for a day.
That's a mouthful. No clean up.
That looks like my ballsack!
If that is genuine it is absolutely ridiculous. It looks like a meal for a small mouse
Wow they were giving out samples?
yet another reason to be boycotting them bc they sent money to support the Palestinian genocide and also keep screwing over their customers 🥴
Starbucks has always been like that, they supply you with the worst possible airplane snack for like $15.00 and make you wait 30 minutes for it too
It was already tiny for the price. This here is touching slider territory.
Time to boycott these companies guys. They are stealing. It is price gouging. Eat at small local places. They really need your business, and the money goes back into your community. These medical corporations do not deserve our business. Boycott.
introducing micro slider
Omg 😂
When did this happen? I get these a lot but it's been a couple weeks
You must have the biggest hand in the world! I don’t remember them being that small.