Starbucks Barista

Position Summary: Create an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service. Establish and maintain a safe and clean environment that encourages our customers to return. Support the day-to-day functions of the Starbucks operations. Embrace the Customer 1st strategy and encourage associates to deliver excellent customer service. Demonstrate the company’s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety of others.

Essential Job Functions:

• Create an environment that enables customers to feel welcome, important, and appreciated by answering questions regarding products sold within the department and throughout the store.
• Gain and maintain knowledge of products sold within the department and be able to respond to questions and make suggestions about products.
• Adhere to all local, state, and federal laws, and company guidelines.
• Create an environment that enables customers to feel welcome, important, and appreciated by answering questions regarding products sold within the department and throughout the store.
• Prepare beverage selections to recipe and standards and to customer’s requests using proper equipment.
• Tender transactions using company best practices.
• Offer product samples to help customers discover new items or products for which they inquire about.
• Inform customers of coffee shop specials.
• Provide customers with fresh products that they have ordered and the correct portion size (or as close as possible) to prevent shrinkage.
• Recommend coffee shop items to customers to ensure they get the products they want and need.
• Use all equipment in the coffee shop such as the refrigerators, freezers, slicers, and ovens according to company guidelines.
• Adequately prepare, package, label, and inventory ingredients in merchandise.
• Check product quality to ensure freshness. Review “sell by” dates and take appropriate action.
• Properly use kitchen equipment, espresso machine, blender, computerized scale, steamer, etc.
• Label, stock, and inventory department merchandise.
• Report product ordering/shipping discrepancies to the department manager.
• Stay current with present, future, seasonal, and special ads.
• Adhere to all food safety regulations and guidelines.
• Ensure proper temperatures in cases and coolers are maintained and temperature logs are maintained.
• Practice preventive maintenance by properly inspecting equipment and notify the appropriate department or store manager of any items in need of repair.
• Notify management of customer or employee accidents.
• Report all safety risks, or issues, and illegal activity, including: robbery, theft, or fraud.
• Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Behaviors/Skills:Some of the behaviors needed to successfully perform this position are:Leadership Behaviors:

• Puts the Customer First - Anticipates customer needs, champions for the customer, acts with customers in mind, exceeds customers’ expectations, and gains customers’ trust and respect.
• Communicates Effectively and Candidly - Communicates clearly and directly, is approachable, relates well to others, engages people and helps them understand change, provides and seeks feedback, articulates clearly, and actively listens.
• Achieves Results Through Teamwork – Is open to diverse ideas, works inclusively and collaboratively, holds self and others accountable, and involves others to accomplish individual and team goals.
• Leads Through Positive Influence – Demonstrates strong character, builds partnerships, models a conscious balance between work and personal life, takes personal responsibility for own development, and role models leadership qualities such as motivation, inspiration, passion, and trust.
• Coaches and Develops Others - Develops and cares about associates, builds effective teams, helps people be their best, values and manages diversity, provides candid and constructive feedback.
• Leads Change and Innovation - Challenges the status quo, embraces technology, puts forward creative ideas, champions and implements process improvements, gathers the ideas of others, demonstrates good judgment about which ideas will work.
• Executes with Excellence - Is action oriented, drives for results, sets clear expectations and milestones, reviews progress, acts decisively, solves problems, can be counted on to consistently meet or exceed goals.
• Provides Clear and Strategic Direction - Plans and organizes well, sets a clear and simple course of action, stays focused on the most important priorities, has the ability to visualize and plan for the future, understands the industry and marketplace. 
• Safety Awareness -Identifying and correcting conditions that affect employee safety; upholding safety standards.

Minimum Position Qualifications:

• Effective communication skills.
• Knowledge of basic math (counting, addition, and subtraction).
• Ability to handle stressful situations.
• Current food handlers permit once employed.

Desired Previous Job Experience:

• High school education or equivalent preferred.
• Management experience preferred.
• Retail experience.

About Kroger:

With nearly 500,000 associates nationwide, we’re a big company with lots of small, supportive communities. Big opportunities in a place that feels like home is one of the reasons Kroger is a great place to work. We genuinely care about each other, giving back and helping out. We want you to feel inspired to stay and feed your future.

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