Barista - Temporary

Barnes & Noble • Bellingham, WA

6d

About The Position

The Barista is an integral member of a Barnes & Noble Café team, welcoming customers, helping them choose beverages and café items, maintaining café presentation, and supporting efficient day-to-day operations. The role includes serving customers at the register, preparing food and drinks, stocking deliveries, and keeping café and dining areas clean and orderly. Baristas are expected to be punctual, positive, helpful to colleagues and customers, flexible when scheduling needs arise, willing to learn, and enthusiastic about the work.

Baristas learn and carry out operational competencies including use of registers and other technology; merchandising and visual presentation; receiving, unpacking, and accurately stocking deliveries; preparing food and beverages according to recipes and product information; completing daily and weekly cleaning tasks; following FIFO and product-dating practices; supporting the bookstore team when needed; and applying loss-prevention and de-escalation procedures. The role involves prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking. Employees may work in other stores when able and when needed to support the wider Cluster.

As they gain experience, Baristas build knowledge of café products, promotions, customization options, retail offerings, training tools, and food safety, hygiene, and sanitation procedures. The position is a step in a career path that may lead to Senior Barista as skills and experience develop. The position is temporary. The stated hourly rate ranges from $19.25 to $20.75. Benefits vary according to scheduled hours and location; listed benefits include employee discounts, EAP, sick pay, paid time off, holidays, 401(k) with company match, health coverage, disability and life insurance, transit, and tuition reimbursement, subject to eligibility and plan terms.

Requirements

• Reliable and punctual attendance for scheduled shifts.
• A positive, willing, hardworking, and dependable approach to assigned tasks.
• A supportive and considerate attitude toward colleagues.
• A cheerful, helpful approach to customers.
• Aptitude and willingness to learn new skills and acquire knowledge.
• Ability to use varied technology comfortably and efficiently, including registers, computers, tablets, and programs.
• Ability to perform physical work that includes prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking.
• Willingness to work flexibly in response to store needs; stores are open from early mornings to late evenings every day, including weekends and most holidays.

Responsibilities

• Welcome customers cheerfully, answer questions, and help them choose beverages and café items.
• Operate registers quickly, reliably, and professionally.
• Prepare food and drinks accurately using product knowledge, recipe guides, product specifications, and other available tools.
• Maintain attractive café, counter, floor-fixture, and dining-area presentation and cleanliness.
• Receive, unpack, and accurately stock deliveries.
• Carry out daily and weekly cleaning tasks and follow café safety, hygiene, and sanitation procedures.
• Follow First In First Out (FIFO) practices and date products consistently and correctly.
• Build product knowledge across beverage, bakery, savory, gifting, and café retail offerings, and use it to support customers and sales.
• Share knowledge of promotions and limited-time offers with customers and colleagues, and recommend food and beverage customizations.
• Use café training tools and varied technology, including registers, computers, tablets, and programs.
• Support the bookstore floor team when needed.
• Follow loss-prevention procedures, identify theft or problematic behavior, and seek support or use de-escalation techniques as appropriate.
• Maintain reliable and punctual attendance, and be flexible and responsive to store scheduling needs when able.
• Support colleagues and, when able and needed, work in other stores to support the wider Cluster.
• Comply with company policies and procedures.

Benefits

• Employee discount
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Sick pay
• Paid time off, subject to eligibility and scheduled hours
• Paid maternity and parental leave, as listed for eligible schedules
• Company-paid holidays
• 401(k) with company match, as listed for eligible schedules
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits, subject to eligibility
• Healthcare and dependent care spending accounts, as listed for eligible schedules
• Disability benefits
• Life insurance
• Transit benefits
• Tuition reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed