Starbucks Baristas: The daily grind
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I have a few questions about working at Starbucks (self.starbucksbaristas)
submitted by vaudtime
I got a job at another chain coffee place like Starbucks (but smaller) and i just found out the pay is $9/hr 🙃 before this job, I interviewed at a Starbucks in town and he told me he’d love to hire me but my hours just didn’t fit with what he needed. Fair enough. My mom told me it might be wise to try again.
I’m kinda wondering a few things:
1. How do you guys do your espresso shots and milk? At the place I work at, our franke is basically completely automated. We don’t have the tamper things, we don’t fill it ourselves, and the foaming is automatic too. How do you do it at your store?
2. Do you like working at Starbucks?
3. Do you feel like it’s worth it to potentially try to get hired at a Starbucks or no? I know that’s somewhat of a personal question. I do like the place I work at, I think they have good drinks and the people are relatively nice.
Just kinda in a personal conundrum
I’m kinda wondering a few things:
1. How do you guys do your espresso shots and milk? At the place I work at, our franke is basically completely automated. We don’t have the tamper things, we don’t fill it ourselves, and the foaming is automatic too. How do you do it at your store?
2. Do you like working at Starbucks?
3. Do you feel like it’s worth it to potentially try to get hired at a Starbucks or no? I know that’s somewhat of a personal question. I do like the place I work at, I think they have good drinks and the people are relatively nice.
Just kinda in a personal conundrum
Ristrettooo 8 points 1y ago
The espresso machine is super-automatic. You just fill the hoppers with beans, press buttons for the amount and type of shots you need, and it does the rest. The older machines require more manual calibration than the newer ones, but there’s very little work involved in pulling shots.
Milk is different: we pour and steam milk for each drink. The machine automatically stops steaming at the correct temperature, but you do have to learn how to aerate and foam the milk properly. It’s covered in training but it takes practice.
As far as working here goes . . . your experience can vary a LOT depending on your store, how busy it is, the kind of customers you get, your team, etc. If you’ve worked in food service or retail, a lot will be familiar to you. It’s generally a very fast-paced job and there’s a lot to learn. It can easily take a few months to feel comfortable with recipes and routines.
I consider myself lucky to have great coworkers, but I think the company overall plainly only cares about its shareholders and does a shit job of pretending they have a clue what it’s actually like to work in a store, which is one reason why we’re seeing so many stores (including mine!) trying to unionize.
Despite that, if the pay and benefits appeal to you and you have a store near you where it seems like the baristas are having a good time, then I do think it’s worth applying. The application is pretty quick and you might like it!
Milk is different: we pour and steam milk for each drink. The machine automatically stops steaming at the correct temperature, but you do have to learn how to aerate and foam the milk properly. It’s covered in training but it takes practice.
As far as working here goes . . . your experience can vary a LOT depending on your store, how busy it is, the kind of customers you get, your team, etc. If you’ve worked in food service or retail, a lot will be familiar to you. It’s generally a very fast-paced job and there’s a lot to learn. It can easily take a few months to feel comfortable with recipes and routines.
I consider myself lucky to have great coworkers, but I think the company overall plainly only cares about its shareholders and does a shit job of pretending they have a clue what it’s actually like to work in a store, which is one reason why we’re seeing so many stores (including mine!) trying to unionize.
Despite that, if the pay and benefits appeal to you and you have a store near you where it seems like the baristas are having a good time, then I do think it’s worth applying. The application is pretty quick and you might like it!
vaudtime [OP] 1 points 1y ago
Thank you for your response! This was really helpful :)
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