Educates customers by presenting and explaining the coffee drink menu; answering questions. Sells coffees and coffee grinding and brewing equipment by explaining differences in coffee beans and coffee preparation machines; demonstrating how brewing equipment operates.
Prepares and sells coffee drinks by following prescribed recipes and preparation techniques for coffee drinks, such as, espresso, espresso lungo, caffe latte, and cappuccino.
Generates revenues by attracting new customers; defining new and expanded services and products. Maintains inventories by replenishing coffee bean supply; stocking coffee brewing equipment; maintaining supplies, pastries, and cookies for coffee bar. The job involves working with the public on an almost non-stop basis.
A good barista will have a good memory, to be able to remember all the recipes of popular drinks. Plus, he or she would be creative and have a good palate to discern the different flavors of coffees. Career prospects as a barista are varied and exciting. It may be possible to work in a restaurant, cafe, coffee shop or hotel. Plus, in many large cities there are gourmet coffee carts that need skilled workers too.
This is a job that can be done from anywhere around the world including huge cities and small towns. As part of the food and beverage industry, the outlook for this career is much the same as other jobs in this field. Baristas are usually trained and notified of specific guidelines to follow depending on the drink. At times, more experienced baristas can even experiment with their own styles of preparation. Depending on the machine, the whole process of preparing a drink may be fully automated or fully manual.
The job typically involves a mixture of both. For example, a machine may be semi-automatic, meaning that pressure is applied automatically, though brew times are set manually.
Other machines are fully automatic, where the barista only needs to load the beans and let the machine do the rest of the work. Creating the perfect coffee drink is at the heart of what baristas do, and love to do. With a Barista job you will often find that your shifts include days and weekends and, on many occasions, include Bank Holidays.
Shift working can work extremely well for those who have home and family commitments providing a career that enables you to maintain a healthy work-life balance. Throughout your career as a Barista you will gain a vast cross-section of transferable skills such as communication, teamwork, organisation, problem-solving, multitasking, reliability and attention to detail that can be utilised in many roles and industries.
If you are enthusiastic about self-development and embrace opportunities to improve your skills and knowledge whenever possible, you could build a long and rewarding career, not only as a Barista but also in other roles in the catering and hospitality industry.
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