Roles & Responsibilities

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Welcomes café guests in the warmest possible manner, responds to customer queries and concerns
• Encourages consumers to drink coffee and/or other beverages by educating them on the features and specifics of types and characteristics
• If needed, grinds and brew coffee and serving them at the best presentation to make the drinking experience most rewarding
• Informs them about specials or new items, answering questions and accepting orders
• Ensures that a beverage menu is available for customers and updated as necessary
• Follows established formulas and preparation procedures to ensure consistency in the quality of coffee, tea and other beverages
• Attracts new consumers and defines new and extended services and products to generate more income
• Maintains coffee bar inventory by refilling coffee bean supplies, stocking coffee inventory, keeping volume enough for expected orders for each day
• Provides pastries and cookies as options for customers to go with their preferred coffee and beverage
• Follows operating instructions, troubleshoots malfunctions, does preventive maintenance, keep bar equipment working, and calls for repairs during malfunctions if needed
• Continuously expands knowledge in hot and cold beverages as wealth as health and safety standards
• Works as part of a fun, high-energy team
• Adheres to all food safety and health regulations and quality controls
• Studies, analyses, and redesigns procedures as well as makes improvements
• Maintains and makes recommendations to enhances the coffee bar’s look and appearance if needed
• Participates in educational opportunities, reads coffee materials, retail trade and food service magazines
• Networks with other baristas in the industry to keep job knowledge up-to-date
• Accepts other responsibilities for completing new and varied demands and looks for ways to add value to improve the café’s reputation
• Undertakes any other assigned ad-hoc duties as the business requires

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Associate or Bachelor’s Degree in Restaurant Management, Business, or relevant fields
• Two (2) to three (3) years of experience as a barista
• Completed the WSQ Basic Food Hygiene Course – Food Safety Course Levels 1 and 2
• Strong interpersonal skills and enjoys interacting with customers
• Sound and strong understanding of optimising cafe operations and key indicators of success
• Possesses strong logical and analytical problem-solving skills
• Able to grasp business requirements and processes
• Working knowledge of POS software and systems and Microsoft Office
• Meticulous, good organizational and operations skills
• Good communication and listening skills

Tell employers what skills you have

Recipes
Listening Skills
Preventive Maintenance
Microsoft Office
Food Safety
Interpersonal Skills
Inventory
Wealth
Sanitation
Selling
Restaurant Management
Cashiering
Customer Service
Hospitality
Business Requirements
Magazines