Barista - Temporary

Barnes & Noble•Edison, NJ

26d

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 includes maintaining an attractive, clean, and efficiently run café; stocking deliveries; tidying the bakery case and dining area; and operating registers to provide quick, professional service. Baristas are expected to be cheerful, reliable, flexible, supportive of colleagues, willing to learn, and enthusiastic about the work. The position involves learning and applying operational skills such as using registers and other technology, merchandising café and retail fixtures, preparing food and drinks accurately, receiving and stocking deliveries, following FIFO and product-dating practices, and completing cleaning tasks. Baristas also support the bookfloor when needed and follow loss-prevention, de-escalation, food-safety, hygiene, and sanitation procedures. As their knowledge develops, they contribute to café product presentation, sales objectives, promotions, customer recommendations, and café retail options. The role offers a career path toward Senior Barista. Physical activity includes prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking. Employees may work at other stores when able and needed to support the wider cluster.

Requirements

Reliable and punctual attendance for scheduled shifts.
Flexibility and responsiveness to store needs, including filling scheduling gaps when able; stores are open early mornings through late evenings, including weekends and most holidays.
Positive, energetic, dependable approach to assigned work.
Considerate, supportive teamwork and 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 activity including prolonged standing, repetitive bending, lifting, and extensive walking.
Willingness to follow company policies and procedures.

Responsibilities

Welcome customers cheerfully, answer questions, and help them select beverages and café items.
Maintain café presentation and cleanliness, including the bakery case, dining area, counter, and floor retail fixtures.
Operate registers quickly, accurately, and reliably to provide professional customer service.
Receive, unpack, and stock deliveries efficiently and accurately.
Prepare food and drinks accurately using recipe guides, product specification sheets, and available knowledge.
Complete daily and weekly café cleaning tasks and follow food safety, hygiene, sanitation, FIFO, and product-dating procedures.
Support café merchandising, product sales objectives, promotions, and café retail options.
Make food and beverage customization recommendations and share product knowledge with customers and colleagues.
Support the bookfloor team when needed and assist other stores in the wider cluster when able and required.
Follow company policies and procedures, including loss-prevention processes and de-escalation techniques; identify and report theft or problematic behavior.
Maintain reliable and punctual attendance, respond flexibly to store scheduling needs, and support colleagues.
Learn and use café training tools and develop product and operational knowledge.