I used to be a senior TL for just Starbucks and food ave. It really all depends on your leaders. At first I had an STL who was very hands off (to a fault, sometimes) and he let me do my job well, and so did my ETL. For my normal Wednesday night closing shift, I’d do schedule it 3-5 in Starbucks and 5-1130 as LOD - I wouldn’t necessarily spend those two hours in Starbucks but I’d spend at least an hour over there throughout the shift and I wanted to account for the payroll. It was working great because I was allowed to run my workcenters and be LOD.
Enter in a new STL and a new ETL - no more split shifts, I’m not even really allowed to check up on the Starbucks team during my LOD shifts, I have to spend 100% of the time on the sales floor just zoning, doing reshop, and following up with (aka belittling) the sales floor TMs. I hated it. I wasn’t really an LOD, I was a glorified sales floor team member, maybe a sales floor TL. So I ended up stepping down. It wasn’t worth the extra $1.75. I’m not desperate for the money and I have no plans on moving up, so it wasn’t worth the stress.
I had a similar experience when they gave me market. Same bad STL and ETL, so I ended up stepping down again to just be a team member at a different store. Your store’s leadership is everything.