It seems to depend who is working. Sometimes whoever is taking the order
will just go ahead and pour it in for me and sometimes that ask me to
pour it in myself. One young lady recently told me she thought she'd
heard they weren't supposed to use other people's syrup and that she
would fill the cup a little less so that I could use my own syrup
afterwards, but when I told her they'd always let me add it ahead of
time and that it tastes better that way, she handed me the cup to pour
it in. I explained to them that I had my own SF amaretto syrup and that
if they had more choices than the same boring SF vanilla, then I'd use
theirs. They seemed to understand that. Now Barnie's does (usually) have
SF caramel so I will use their syrup. I'm thinking that the next time
I'm at that Starbucks, I might just take a cup while I'm standing in
line, add the syrup and hand it to the cashier. That would give them
less time to worry about it.

Now 3 or 4 years ago (pre Starbucks and pre Atkins being wide spread) I
used to frequent another coffee place. It was a struggle to get a breve
latte, although some of the young ladies would. Then finally they said
that their manager told them they weren't allowed to steam half and
half, even though I was willing to pay extra for it. I guess they
thought that the cream would contaminate their precious low fat milk
pitcher <G>.

Lee

When I want to use up a lot of it, I make either chowder or pudding.  One
of these days I'll attempt making ice cream with it; just haven't gotten
around to it yet.

Em