The Starbucks for 100 bucks Saga

Hello everybody,

Today must've been a very stressful day to the Starbucks Baristas heh?
I have a story to tell you all! It's called "Starbucks for 100 bucks"

It all began when last week, everyone starting getting messages about the ₹100 drink offer in Starbucks that was gonna be on the 28th of October, celebrating the launch of it's 100th outlet in India. The menu said that they would be selling any of your favourite beverage for ₹100 (roughly somewhere around $1.55)

Honestly, My friends and I are regulars there and were even more excited about this whole offer because... After all, we are also students. We were hyped about getting this one drink of our choice, free of GST.
We initially had planned to go to the mall we always hung out at, at like 11am in the morning and sit and work at Starbucks like our usual weekends.

It so happened that we landed up going to another mall close by because the outlet at that mall had the queue lined up across the exit gate (LOL)

So we walked into the other mall on a Saturday, seeing that little line of 4-5 people you often have at Starbucks, full of people. (PS: this is a mall with barely any people ok)

The people almost lined up to the center of the mall.
It was mostly students in the morning. The line however, kept moving further really quick also showing us some surprises along the way.
We were amazed to have seen grown ups, cut in to the queue and claim that they had been there before us. We looked behind to see uncles, aunties and dada daadis also lined up in the queue.
As our queue got shorter and shorter, we noticed that people inside were having more than one beverage each, some were having more than three beverages.

What I find funny is, people refuse to buy something large in quantity which is obviously for a higher price but buy more of something for when it's for a lower price. But then again, that's a personal opinion so... eh.

So yeah, we waited in line for our turn and one of us got the drinks for all three of us.
It was a total shame as the drinks we saw people having versus the drinks we got were a total let down.
We all received a half done Java chip Frappuccino with no whipped cream.
In fact, my friend's Java Chip was not even well mixed and had like two different layers in the cup. The workers from this outlet... were rude to their customers and did not care about how shabby the drink was, except for it having been the same drink altogether.

What was more genius about this marketing technique was the stuff I read up on the internet.
I read that the Gold level members who stood in the line and expressed their dissatisfaction towards the service of that day were given a free drink as a token of apology.
Well played Starbucks! *Claps*

After we got out of the outlet, the queue was relatively smaller but I somehow managed to sneak a picture in.

This was one hell of an experience though!

Here's my friend showing her disappointment :P

I also heard from my friends living in Pune, that their queue was much more longer and they waited in queue for almost an hour and gave up on it!

I would make sure that I go there on regular working days hahaha!
Comment below your experience if any of you went there on that day!