Barista - Temporary

Barnes & Noble • Garland, TX

15d • Onsite

About The Position

A Barnes & Noble Barista is an integral member of the bookstore café team, welcoming customers, answering questions, and helping them choose beverages and café items. The role helps maintain an attractive café presentation and efficient operations by stocking deliveries, tidying the bakery case and dining area, and serving customers at the register. Baristas are expected to be cheerful, reliable, helpful to colleagues, willing to learn, and enthusiastic about the work.

The role requires learning and performing core café operations, including using registers and other technology, merchandising café and retail fixtures, preparing food and drinks accurately, receiving and stocking deliveries, completing cleaning tasks, and following FIFO, product dating, safety, hygiene, and sanitation procedures. Baristas also support the bookfloor team and follow loss-prevention procedures, including identifying concerns and seeking support when needed.

The work involves prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and frequent walking. Baristas may be asked to support other stores in the wider cluster when able and when needed. As they gain experience, they develop product knowledge, assist with promotions and sales objectives, make customization recommendations, and contribute to café retail execution. The stated career path offers advancement to Senior Barista as role skills are mastered. Baristas must comply with company policies and procedures.

Requirements

• Reliable and punctual attendance for scheduled shifts.
• A positive, energetic, dependable, and willing approach to assigned work.
• Considerate and supportive collaboration with colleagues.
• A cheerful, helpful approach to customers.
• Aptitude and willingness to learn new skills and acquire knowledge.
• Ability to use registers, computers, tablets, programs, and other tools comfortably and efficiently.
• Ability to perform café operations, including register service, food and drink preparation, merchandising, stocking, cleaning, and FIFO product dating.
• Ability to perform physical work involving prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and frequent walking.
• Willingness to work flexibly around store needs, including early mornings, late evenings, weekends, and most holidays.
• Enjoyment of working as a barista.

Responsibilities

• Welcome customers, answer questions, and help them select beverages and café items.
• Maintain an attractive café presentation and help ensure efficient café operations.
• Unpack and stock deliveries; tidy the bakery case and dining area.
• Operate registers quickly, accurately, and courteously.
• Use registers, computers, tablets, programs, and other tools efficiently.
• Maintain café cleanliness and merchandising, including café counters and floor retail fixtures.
• Prepare food and beverages accurately using product information and recipe guides.
• Follow First In First Out (FIFO) practices and date products consistently and correctly.
• Support receiving, unpacking, and accurate stocking of deliveries.
• Support the bookfloor team when needed and, when able, assist other stores in the cluster.
• Follow loss-prevention procedures and de-escalation techniques; identify theft or problematic behavior and seek support.
• Build knowledge of beverage, bakery, savory, gifting, and café retail products.
• Support café sales objectives, promotions, and new limited-time-offer items by sharing product knowledge.
• Recommend food and beverage customizations to customers.
• Use café training tools and follow café safety, hygiene, and sanitation standards.
• Maintain reliable and punctual attendance, be flexible when scheduling gaps arise, and work constructively with colleagues and customers.
• 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 schedules of 20 or more hours per week).
• Company-paid holidays (for schedules of 20 or more hours per week).
• Transit benefits (for schedules of 20 or more hours per week).
• 401(k) with company match (for schedules of 20 or more hours per week).
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits (for schedules of 30 or more hours per week).
• Healthcare and dependent care spending accounts (for schedules of 30 or more hours per week).
• Disability benefits (for schedules of 30 or more hours per week).
• Life insurance (for schedules of 30 or more hours per week).
• Tuition reimbursement (for schedules of 30 or more hours per week).

What This Job Offers

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