Starbucks Barista

Target • South Gate, CA

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About The Position

The Starbucks Barista works on Target’s Food & Beverage team to provide guests with a consistent Starbucks experience and an easy, inspiring, and friendly visit. The role includes preparing handcrafted Starbucks beverages and food to recipe specifications, maintaining food quality and freshness, and supporting food safety and operational standards. Baristas help ensure products are fresh, available, accurately priced, and properly presented while balancing guest needs with assigned tasks.

The position involves engaging with guests, helping resolve questions and issues, maintaining the Starbucks dining area, and completing food and beverage routines such as deliveries, replenishment, inventory, rotation, cleaning, signing, and storage. Team members follow Target and Starbucks procedures, complete required training and certifications, and support other guest-service areas as needed. The work is active and physically demanding, with a flexible schedule that may include nights, weekends, holidays, and peak shopping periods.

Requirements

• Previous Starbucks or food-service experience is preferred but not required.
• Welcoming and helpful attitude toward guests and team members.
• Ability to communicate using multiple-frequency devices and operate handheld scanners and other technology as directed.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to resolve guest questions quickly.
• Attention to detail and ability to follow multistep processes.
• Ability to stay focused and composed in a fast-paced environment and complete multiple tasks within established timeframes.
• Ability to access all areas of the building to respond to guest or team-member issues.
• Ability to interpret instructions, reports, and information.
• Ability to accurately handle cash-register operations as needed.
• Ability to climb ladders as needed.
• Ability to scan, handle, and move merchandise efficiently and safely, including frequently lifting or moving items up to 10 pounds and occasionally lifting or moving merchandise up to 44 pounds without additional assistance.
• Ability to remain mobile for the duration of scheduled shifts, whose length may vary.
• Ability to work in refrigeration and freezer conditions where common allergens may be handled or present.
• Ability to work in varying temperatures, humidity, and other elements while performing duties such as Drive Up and carryout.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule that may include nights, weekends, holidays, and other peak shopping times; report for scheduled shifts and take required meal and rest breaks.

Nice To Haves

• Previous Starbucks or food-service experience.

Responsibilities

• Create a friendly guest experience by greeting guests, helping them find what they need, resolving issues, and thanking them after transactions.
• Support team efforts and assist peers in other areas while maintaining a positive and respectful attitude.
• Adjust to business and guest needs, prioritizing guests while providing a fresh and abundant shopping experience.
• Uphold Food & Beverage standards and execute food and beverage processes, including deliveries, replenishment, inventory routines, data accuracy, culling, rotation, cleaning, signing, organizing, and storing reserve product.
• Stay aware of current and future Starbucks promotions and follow Target and Starbucks routines to provide a consistent guest experience and maintain food safety.
• Maintain an inviting Starbucks dining area throughout the shift and engage with guests according to Starbucks standards.
• Prepare handcrafted beverages and food according to recipe cards and specifications.
• Follow food safety requirements, including monitoring and recording temperatures of sensitive food items.
• Complete and record required cleaning tasks in the Starbucks area.
• Identify damaged, recalled, or expired items and process them according to best practices.
• Place store-initiated orders and follow perishable inventory procedures to maintain accurate in-stocks and inventory records.
• Execute sampling best practices and complete required quality-control training and certifications.
• Demonstrate ethical conduct, safety, and compliance; follow safety policies and training, and report or correct hazards when possible.
• Support guest services such as backup cashiering, order pickup, and Drive Up while complying with applicable policies and laws.
• Perform other duties based on business needs.

Benefits

• Target provides competitive benefits in financial, education, and well-being areas; eligibility details are provided through the benefits eligibility link.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed