Chronos1225 2 points 3y ago
I work at a licensed store inside of a grocery store. I’ll be real with you, it’s not great. The last time I worked with another person for more than 10 minutes was over a month ago, scheduling can be a pain in the ass with low employees, and sometimes you feel out of the loop of general knowledge. You’ll like it for a few months and then probably want to move to a corporate store to be completely honest.
Yes, I already know I’m pessimistic as shit
jackiece4 1 points 3y ago
I work at a Starbucks on my college campus and I honestly really love it. We’re busy a lot of the time during the day, usually with a constant line out the door. During the week our peak lasts from like 8am-3pm (it varies depending on the day though). But it keeps me busy and my shifts go by super quick (usually). We’re usually pretty staffed during the day because of how busy it gets, so normally we have 2 on POS, 2 people on bar (1 hot and 1 cold/hot support), a CS, a person on OS, and a person calling out drinks/mobile orders. And then we have our 2 full time managers and a student lead that help as needed.
Of course we don’t always have that many people on the floor, it gets somewhat less busy after 4 so we wouldn’t have 2 people on POS by then, and depending on the day there might not be 2 people on bar by 6pm either.
It can be pretty stressful sometimes just because there’s always so many customers, but our store is pretty tight knit and we all get along really well, so most of us pretty much enjoy coming into work :)
I’m not sure how busy your campus Starbucks might be, but because mine is constantly busy, I’ve become really fast at sequencing on bar!!
ashleyghost 1 points 3y ago
my first store was licensed inside a teaching hospital on a campus and i'm genuinely grateful for it. the store was fairly slow and my manager had recently come from a corporate store to the licensed one so he had the store to Standard. it gave me the time to learn at a comfortable pace without much stress so i had a really great experience as a new barista. however, there were absolutely no benefits to speak of so i had to eventually look into alternatives. i do miss that store though. it would be a piece of cake for me at this point.
ETA after reading the other comment that i was fortunate to work with other people since we were steady enough to have 3 partners (or more) at all times but i know that may not be the case elsewhere.