Barista Jobs in Spokane, LA

About The Position

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 with honesty and integrity regarding customer and business information.
• Ability to follow directions and seek assistance when necessary 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 a welcoming environment by answering customer questions about products sold in the department and throughout the store.
• Maintain product knowledge and answer questions or make product suggestions.
• Collaborate with associates and promote teamwork to help achieve company and store goals.
• Prepare beverages according to recipes and standards, fulfill customer requests using proper equipment, and tender transactions using company best practices.
• Offer product samples and inform customers about coffee shop specials.
• Provide customers with fresh products and correct portion sizes, or as close as possible to the amount ordered, to prevent shrink.
• Recommend coffee shop items to help customers find the products they want and need.
• Use coffee shop equipment 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.
• Properly use kitchen equipment, including refrigerators, freezers, slicers, ovens, an espresso machine, a blender, a computerized scale, and a steamer.
• 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, and notify store management; 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.
• Work cooperatively in a fast-paced and sometimes stressful environment, and manage conflict in a reasonable, nonconfrontational, and cooperative manner.
• Handle customer and business information honestly and with integrity; follow directions and seek assistance when needed to resolve customer and business issues.
• Provide support and assistance through direct interaction with minors, individuals with special needs, and older adults.
• Perform the essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation.