When I was at barnes and noble (4 years ago mind you) I was paid minimum wage (7.25/hr) and was not able to take tips nor received benefits. I’m not sure how much this has changed but prefer the bux over that experience most days

Greetings,

Alright, here is my time to shine! I am a current café worker of the store too. I have never worked at Starbucks, though, so I cannot give a firsthand account of both sides.

B&N allows you one free coffee or tea per day. You also get an employee discount on café items and books that, from what I have seen, FAR surpasses a B&N membership. I am a factory tier worker, so I do not know if there are extra benefits for Café Operations Manager or Senior Barista.

One of the most important differences you will become very familiar with between the two entities is that B&N is its own presence that is *licensed to sell a limited amount of Starbucks product*. What that means is that Starbucks memberships/apps/gift cards are not accepted because B&N is...well, *not Starbucks*. Customers are never going to stop trying though, so... yeah. B&N being, in essence, a bookstore means its café will likely be less busy than your typical Starbucks on average (unless said Starbucks is a hole in the wall). That said, the café will get hecka busy frequently as would a Starbucks.

Personally, even though I never worked at Starbucks, I am willing to bet B&N has the more intelligent (or less stupid) customer base than a Starbucks would. But, you still get customers of all walks of life and intelligence anyway, so...

I guess that is it for now? I hope I helped out at least a little.

Cheers,
co is

as it’s a licensed store you’ll be subject to the b&n benefits and policies, not starbucks. ngl benefits will probably be worse and definitely not as well paid. probably won’t be able to take tips, and probably won’t be able to make free drinks, probably will work solo a lot. HOWEVER, (im not totally sure but from what i know) youll probably get a book discount like other employees, you get custom menu items, and the vibes seem pretty chill over there.

I work at target one now and hate it I’m interviewing to go to stand alone. Even during training we can keep the one we train with we just dump them that seems like waste to me