Barista - Temporary

Barnes & Noble•Athens, GA

25d

About The Position

The Barista is an integral member of the Barnes & Noble Café team, welcoming customers, answering questions, and helping them choose beverages and café items. The role supports attractive café presentation and efficient operations by stocking deliveries, maintaining the bake case and dining area, operating registers, and preparing food and drinks. Baristas are expected to provide cheerful, professional service, work reliably and collaboratively, and learn the operational skills and product knowledge needed to support café sales and promotions. The job involves physical activity, including prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking. Baristas may also work in other stores when available and needed to support the wider Cluster. As their experience develops, Baristas are expected to build their café expertise and advance toward the Senior Barista role. This is a temporary position.

Requirements

Reliable and punctual attendance for scheduled shifts.
A positive, energetic, hardworking, and dependable approach to assigned tasks.
A supportive and considerate attitude toward colleagues and a cheerful, helpful approach to customers.
A willingness and aptitude to learn new skills and acquire knowledge.
Ability and willingness to use registers, computers, tablets, programs, and other tools comfortably and efficiently.
Ability to perform the physical activities of the role, including prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking.
Ability to work a schedule that may include early mornings, late evenings, weekends, and most holidays, and flexibility to fill scheduling gaps when able.
Compliance with company policies and procedures.

Responsibilities

Welcome customers cheerfully, answer questions, and help customers select beverages and café items.
Operate registers quickly, accurately, and professionally.
Unpack and stock deliveries, and support accurate and efficient stocking.
Maintain café presentation, cleanliness, the bake case, dining area, counter, and retail fixtures.
Prepare food and drinks accurately using product information and recipe guides.
Complete daily and weekly café cleaning tasks and follow safety, hygiene, and sanitation procedures.
Follow First In First Out (FIFO) practices and date products correctly.
Build knowledge of beverage, bakery, savory, gifting, and café retail products.
Share knowledge of new limited-time-offer items and promotions with customers and colleagues, and support sales objectives.
Recommend food and beverage customizations and support café promotions and product success.
Use café training tools appropriately.
Support the bookfloor team when needed.
Follow loss prevention procedures, identify theft or problematic behavior, and seek support as appropriate.
Maintain reliable attendance, be punctual, and fill scheduling gaps when able.
Collaborate with colleagues and, when able and needed, support other stores in the wider Cluster.

Benefits

Employee discount
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Sick pay
Paid time off, including paid maternity and parental leave, for schedules of 20 hours per week or more
Company-paid holidays, for schedules of 20 hours per week or more
Transit benefits, for schedules of 20 hours per week or more
401(k) with company match, for schedules of 20 hours per week or more
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, for schedules of 30 hours per week or more
Healthcare and dependent care spending accounts, for schedules of 30 hours per week or more
Disability benefits, for schedules of 30 hours per week or more
Life insurance, for schedules of 30 hours per week or more
Tuition reimbursement, for schedules of 30 hours per week or more