You can drink any of the beverages in the store.

Whether meals are provided depends on the store manager’s policy. The store where I worked did not provide meals.

The coworkers are around the same age.

You can train to improve your drink-making speed and the legibility of the codes you write. (If your handwriting is too ugly, you’ll get told off.)

There is no labor or health insurance.

There really is no labor or health insurance. I don’t know how it is at other stores, but I didn’t have it.

Not providing meals is really hard on your wallet, especially at the Taipei branch. Food prices around there are ridiculously expensive; once you factor in just eating, gas, and phone costs, half your salary is gone.

There are no dedicated delivery vehicles. Your own scooter is used for deliveries, and there is no gas allowance either.

As for working hours, I don’t know whether every branch is like this, but my shifts were basically nine hours, with no meal break. You had to find a gap yourself, and if you were unlucky and busy the whole time, you could forget about eating.

Another issue is that the scheduled opening time is treated as the start of work. This means the time spent turning on and warming up the equipment is unpaid. Even if you clock in early, you are still paid only from the scheduled time. If you work overtime because things get busy, there is no overtime pay either. Once closing time arrives, you cannot ask customers to leave; you have to wait for them to leave on their own.