Green Siren
Central, TX
Female, 26
After working all day in a cubicle, I'd spend my nights as your friendly, neighborhood Starbucks barista! I remembered your name, made each drink exactly to your specifications and did it all with a bright smile. I've served celebrities, worked both drive thru & cafe stores, worked every holiday and have kept the customers from knowing about all the craziness that goes on behind the scenes... until now. Ask me anything.
You will get the hang of it. Remember the regulars and the way they like their drinks. If a customer engages you, be friendly but work hard. There is ALWAYS something to be done so make sure you are doing something, it makes your shift easier. And don't forget to smile.
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Doesn't affect me near as much as it used to. At my old coffee shop I'd drink about 16 espresso shots in an 8 hour shift, at Starbucks I'd limit it to 2 or 3 shots in a 6 hour shift... I also worked at night and it really screwed with my sleep if I drank more than that.
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Absolutely not. The best thing I found that worked for me--and many of my co-workers--was to be as nice and kind of possible in return. It didn't work for everyone, but some people eventually felt bad about how rude they were acting.
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Please read the previous questions. This has been asked multiple times.
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Every barista goes through the same training whether you have experience or not. You get trained on coffee, register and the bar. It takes about 2 weeks and you spend the bulk of the time with a shift manager.
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Ask your store or a shift manager. If I remember correctly it was at 6 months. However, the store you want to transfer to has to accept you so it would behoove you to make friends with the manager at the store you want to transfer to.
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In my store, tips were bagged and dropped in the safe every day and at the end of the week, one of the shift managers would count them and divide them. Starbucks had a recording process for it so that no one got screwed. Then she would split our tips into individual bags, put them into the safe, and we'd have to request them from the shift manager on duty.
So yes, they aren't given directly to the barista immediately, it took awhile, but I always got them.
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