Barista - Temporary

Barnes & Noble•Escondido, CA

19d•Onsite

About The Position

A 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 contributes to an attractive, clean, and efficiently run Café by stocking deliveries, maintaining the bake case and dining area, preparing food and drinks, and providing quick, friendly, professional register service. Baristas are trained to use café technology and tools, operate registers, merchandise café and retail fixtures, receive and stock deliveries, prepare items accurately using recipes and product information, complete cleaning tasks, and follow FIFO and product-dating practices. They also support the bookfloor team when needed and follow loss-prevention procedures, including identifying theft and seeking help with problematic behavior. As they gain experience, Baristas build knowledge of café products, promotions, customization options, training tools, and food safety, hygiene, and sanitation practices. The role is part of a busy team and may involve supporting other stores in the wider Cluster when needed and able. Advancement may lead to the Senior Barista role. The position requires physical activity, including prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking. Employees are expected to comply with company policies and procedures.

Requirements

Reliable and punctual attendance for scheduled shifts.
A positive, energetic, dependable, and flexible approach to work.
A cheerful, helpful, and considerate manner with customers and colleagues.
Willingness and aptitude to learn new skills and acquire knowledge.
Ability to use registers, computers, tablets, programs, and other tools comfortably and efficiently.
Ability to perform physical work including prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking.
Enjoyment of working as a barista.

Responsibilities

Welcome customers cheerfully, answer questions, and help them select beverages and café items.
Maintain the Café’s attractive presentation, cleanliness, and efficient operation, including the bake case, dining area, counter, and retail fixtures.
Operate registers quickly, reliably, and professionally.
Receive, unpack, and accurately stock deliveries.
Prepare food and drinks accurately using product knowledge, recipe guides, product specification sheets, and other tools.
Complete daily and weekly café cleaning tasks and follow food safety, hygiene, and sanitation procedures.
Follow First In First Out (FIFO) practices and date products consistently and correctly.
Support the bookfloor team when needed.
Follow loss-prevention procedures, identify theft and problematic behavior, and seek support as appropriate.
Build knowledge of beverage, bakery, savory, gifting, and café retail products; use that knowledge to maintain presentation and support sales objectives and promotions.
Recommend effective food and beverage customizations to customers.
Use Café training tools appropriately and support the success of key products and promotions.
Maintain reliable and punctual attendance, work positively and supportively with colleagues, and remain flexible to store scheduling needs.
Comply with company policies and procedures.

Benefits

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