Barista - Temporary

Barnes & Noble•Battle Creek, MI

8d•Onsite

About The Position

A Barnes & Noble Barista welcomes customers, helps them select beverages and café items, and provides quick, friendly, professional register service. The role supports an attractive, clean, and efficiently run Café by stocking deliveries, maintaining displays and dining areas, preparing food and drinks, and completing cleaning tasks. Baristas work as part of a busy team and may support the bookfloor or other stores in the wider Cluster when needed and able. The role requires learning and applying café operations, product knowledge, merchandising, food preparation, inventory rotation, safety, hygiene, and loss-prevention practices. As skills and experience develop, the Barista is expected to contribute more broadly to café sales and promotions and may advance to Senior Barista. The position is temporary.

Requirements

Reliable and punctual attendance for scheduled shifts.
Flexibility and responsiveness to store scheduling needs, including filling gaps when able.
Positive, energetic, dependable approach to assigned work.
Considerate and supportive teamwork and a willingness to help colleagues.
Cheerful, helpful customer service.
Aptitude and willingness to learn new skills and knowledge.
Comfort using technology such as registers, computers, tablets, programs, and other tools.
Ability to perform physical work involving prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking.
Enjoyment of working as a barista.

Responsibilities

Welcome customers cheerfully, answer questions, and help them choose beverages and café items.
Operate registers quickly, accurately, and professionally.
Help maintain attractive café, counter, floor-fixture, and dining-area presentation and cleanliness.
Support receiving, unpacking, and accurate stocking of deliveries.
Prepare food and drinks accurately using product information and recipe guides.
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.
Build knowledge of beverage, bakery, savory, gifting, and café retail products; use it to make customization recommendations and support sales objectives and promotions.
Use café training tools appropriately.
Support the bookfloor team when needed and, if able, assist other stores in the Cluster.
Follow loss-prevention procedures, identify theft or problematic behavior, use de-escalation techniques, and seek support when necessary.
Comply with company policies and procedures.