Barista - Temporary

Barnes & Noble•Ft Worth, TX

About The Position

A Barista is an integral member of the Barnes & Noble Café team, welcoming customers, answering questions, recommending beverages and café items, and providing quick, friendly, professional service at the register. The role also helps maintain an attractive, clean, and efficiently run Café by stocking deliveries, presenting products, and tidying the bake case and dining area. Baristas are expected to demonstrate reliable attendance, flexibility when scheduling needs arise, a positive and hardworking approach, consideration for colleagues, cheerful customer service, and a willingness to learn. They receive training and are expected to master operational skills including register use, merchandising, food and drink preparation, receiving and stocking deliveries, cleaning, FIFO and product dating, and loss prevention procedures. They may also support the bookfloor team and, when able and needed, work in other stores in the wider Cluster. As their expertise develops, Baristas build knowledge of café products, promotions, customizations, retail options, training tools, and safety, hygiene, and sanitation procedures. The role offers a career path toward Senior Barista as skills and mastery grow. Baristas must comply with company policies and procedures. The work involves prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking.

Requirements

Maintain reliable and punctual attendance for scheduled shifts.
Be flexible and responsive to store scheduling needs, including filling scheduling gaps when able.
Bring a positive, purposeful, energetic, hardworking, and reliable approach to assigned tasks.
Be supportive and considerate of colleagues and consistently helpful and cheerful with customers.
Show aptitude and willingness to learn new skills and acquire knowledge.
Be willing to learn and perform café operations, including register use, merchandising, food and drink preparation, stocking, cleaning, and product dating.
Be able to perform physical activity including prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking.

Responsibilities

Welcome customers, answer questions, and help them choose beverages and café items.
Provide quick, friendly, and professional service at the register.
Maintain an attractive and clean Café presentation, including the counter, retail fixtures, bake case, and dining area.
Help unpack and receive deliveries, then stock products accurately and efficiently.
Prepare food and drinks accurately using product knowledge, recipe guides, product specification sheets, and other available tools.
Complete daily and weekly cleaning tasks and follow café safety, hygiene, and sanitation procedures.
Apply First In First Out (FIFO) practices and date products consistently and correctly.
Support café sales objectives, promotions, and key products by sharing product knowledge with customers and colleagues.
Recommend food and beverage customizations and maintain engaging, appetizing product displays.
Support the bookfloor team and, when able and needed, other stores in the wider Cluster.
Follow loss prevention procedures, identify theft or problematic behavior, and seek support or use de-escalation techniques as appropriate.
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 employees scheduled 20 hours or more per week.
Company-paid holidays for employees scheduled 20 hours or more per week.
401(k) with company match for employees scheduled 20 hours or more per week.
Transit benefits for employees scheduled 20 hours or more per week.
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits for employees scheduled 30 hours or more per week.
Healthcare and dependent care spending accounts for employees scheduled 30 hours or more per week.
Disability benefits for employees scheduled 30 hours or more per week.
Life insurance for employees scheduled 30 hours or more per week.
Tuition reimbursement for employees scheduled 30 hours or more per week.