Don’t stress too much on memorizing recipes, focus more on patterns after the 1,000th iced caramel macchiato or white mocha those things become muscle memory. Then you’ll realize that when new drinks come out they’re essentially the same recipe as other ones but with different flavors obviously. The best advice i ever got going in was that you’ll almost never be alone on bar and you can always ask about the number of pumps or number if shots, hopefully your coworkers are understanding and/or friendly enough to help out. And between us baristas if you accidentally add an extra pump of syrup or add whip cream guess what, they’re gonna love it cuz it’ll taste delicious

If you say short, short, tall, grande, venti to yourself it equals to the amount of pumps for each size.
A short gets two pumps (short, short)
Tall gets three pumps (short, short, tall)
Grande gets four pumps ( short, short, tall, grande)
Venti gets five pumps (short, short, tall, grande, venti)



*these are for standard hot drinks. Just add one pump more pump for venti ice.

when ever i am on register at my store i try to look at what the tabs on the right side say and memorize it like that because it breaks down the amount of shots, if the want it iced, if they want decaf, the amount of pumps of syrup they’ll want, milks and other customizations they would want but i also keep recipe cards on me so when i’m on bar and there is a lull and i don’t need to restock or clean. i look at 5-10 cards and try and read those.

you are only a few weeks into being a barista. no one is perfect. the menu is long and there is so many possibilities don’t stress yourself out, you’ll burn out faster.

You get two free drinks a day. Make a drink you’ve never made before using a recipe card, twice a day. You’ll learn fast.