Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind
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When your SSV puts the new person on bar with you (i.redd.it)
submitted by flavioTOBR
Kindly-Wear-6290 57 points 2y ago
I ran my first shift this weekend and had to do this to one of our poor green beans. I felt so bad, but she really did a pretty good job and I rescued her just as soon as I could.
cringeqween13 51 points 2y ago
When the shift puts you anywhere even after 4 months:
ThatOtherGuyTPM 45 points 2y ago
I swear, 50% of my time as a shift is spent telling people how much better they are at the job than they think they are. I have partners who have run all bars solo who still have a look of dread when I tell them they’re on cafe bar during the afternoon.
Buxxbarista 13 points 2y ago
THIS! Right now our store has 3 baristas that know what they’re doing and the rest are either green beans or they’ve been there for 7 months and still have no idea what’s going on. I was on bar yesterday for my whole shift (10 hours) with a green bean or alone since opening and I basically made all the drinks and just had them hand them off because they were too slow or didn’t know half the drinks they were making lol. It’s rough in the bux lately
IfuDidntCome2Party 21 points 2y ago
Someone should make "quick-to-the-point per-recipe-cards of how to make each drink" training videos for green beans to review. Make them like a test, can they follow along with each step, staying a step ahead to make the drink in the video?
Show recipe card full screen at the beginning of making the drink.
Show recipe card full screen at the beginning of making the drink.
illfatedpupulon 7 points 2y ago
I made myself a a diy recipe book in a field notebook. Cribbed from the app menu. I tossed in day dates and other reminders.
That was my training lol.
That was my training lol.
misswallflowerr 10 points 2y ago
me af hahahahah
FimbrethilTheEntwife 7 points 2y ago
I've had this happen to me. A lot. I usually ask them what they know and what they don't. If they don't know anything, I either give them iced teas and refreshers (the instructions are on the shaker), or give them specific tasks like "this is a grande white mocha, it gets four pumps from that pump there" \*points at white mocha\* and either guide them through the drink on bar two or ask them to do specific things I would do if I had a third hand.
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laspn 1 points 2y ago
Sounding like Walter White trying to stop them from doing things wrong
MonstrousGiggling 1 points 2y ago
This is perfect
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