Starbucks Barista

Kroger•Rincon, GA

11d

About The Position

Provide exceptional customer service in a safe and clean environment to encourage return visits. Treat customers and employees fairly and ethically, promote an inclusive work environment, act as a responsible community member, and provide the right products at the right time with fair and accurate pricing. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. The Barista welcomes customers, answers questions, recommends products, prepares beverages to recipe and customer specifications, and completes transactions using company best practices. The role also involves maintaining product quality and freshness, preparing and stocking merchandise, operating coffee shop and kitchen equipment according to company guidelines, and supporting food safety, equipment maintenance, and workplace safety. The position works cooperatively with associates to help achieve company and store goals.

Requirements

Excellent customer service skills.
Ability to work cooperatively in a fast-paced and sometimes stressful environment.
Ability to manage conflict in a reasonable, nonconfrontational, and cooperative manner.
Ability to act honestly and with integrity regarding customer and business information.
Ability to follow directions and seek assistance when needed to resolve customer and business issues.
Ability to perform the essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation.

Nice To Haves

Any previous comparable experience.

Responsibilities

Create an environment where customers feel welcome, important, and appreciated by answering questions about products sold in the department and throughout the store.
Gain and maintain knowledge of department products, respond to questions, and make product suggestions.
Collaborate with associates and promote teamwork to help achieve company and store goals.
Prepare beverage selections according to recipes and standards and customer requests, using proper equipment; tender transactions according to company best practices.
Offer product samples, help customers discover products, and inform them of coffee shop specials.
Provide customers with fresh products and correct portion sizes, or portions as close as possible to the amount ordered, to prevent shrink.
Recommend coffee shop items to help customers get the products they want and need.
Use coffee shop equipment, including refrigerators, freezers, slicers, and ovens, according to company guidelines; prepare, package, label, and inventory ingredients and merchandise.
Check product quality and freshness, review sell-by dates, and take appropriate action.
Use kitchen equipment, including an espresso machine, blender, computerized scale, and steamer, properly.
Label, stock, and inventory department merchandise.
Report product ordering or shipping discrepancies to the department manager.
Stay current with present, future, seasonal, and special advertisements.
Follow safety procedures, identify unsafe conditions, notify store management, and comply with food safety regulations and guidelines.
Inspect equipment as part of preventive maintenance and notify the appropriate department or store manager of items needing repair.
Notify management of customer or employee accidents and report safety risks, issues, or illegal activity, including robbery, theft, or fraud, to store management.
Work cooperatively in a fast-paced and sometimes stressful environment.
Manage conflict reasonably, nonconfrontationally, and cooperatively.
Handle customer and business information honestly and with integrity.
Follow directions and seek assistance when necessary to resolve customer and business issues.
Provide support and assistance through direct interaction with minors, individuals with special needs, and/or older adults.
Perform the essential job functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.