Barista

Caravan Restaurants; Greater London; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 26,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free meals & drinks on shift

50% dining discount (up to 4 mates)

20% coffee retail discount

Wellbeing support

Leadership training and development

Job summary

Caravan Restaurants is opening a new site at Southbank, London, and seeks an exceptional Barista to join the opening team. You’ll welcome guests, share your passion for specialty coffee, and help set the standard for hospitality from day one.

You’ll work with the bar manager and full team to ensure coffee operations run smoothly, maintain health and safety standards, and inspire others with the Caravan coffee story while delivering an outstanding guest experience.

Responsibilities

• Ensure our beverage, and certainly coffee standards are consistently delivered
• Share your knowledge and passion with the full team and help create the kind of hospitality people want to come back for
• Follow health & safety standards, allergen procedures and drink specs
• Work closely with the wider restaurant team to give every guest the best experience possible

Job description

Barista

CaravanSouthbank, London

Overallearnings up to £16.20 per hour

Full time

This November,we’re opening our tenth, and biggest, Caravan at the Southbank. And we’relooking for an exceptional Barista to help us open. We’re after someone kind,confident, high-energy and genuinely passionate specialty coffee. Someone whoknows how to support their team, loves to welcome & awe guests from thefirst impression, and who wants to share their passion with their team &guests.

You’ll be joiningCaravan as we open a special new restaurant, with two floors, multiple bars andplenty of opportunity to make your mark from day one.

The role

As Barista you’llwork alongside the bar manager and full team to make sure the day-to-day coffeeoperation runs brilliantly. That means having equally high standards for health& safety, as hospitality, as culture, as drink quality. That means beingan ambassador for our award winning Caravan coffee, inspiring & educatingthe team around you and making sure every one of your guests has the bestexperience possible.

What you'll be doing as Barista

• Ensureour beverage, and certainly coffee standards are consistently delivered
• Sharing your knowledge and passion withthe full team and helping create the kind of hospitality people want to comeback for
• Following healthy & safety standards,allergen procedures and drink specs
• Working closely with the wider restaurantteam to give every guest the best experience possible

Why Caravan?

Since 2010, we’vebeen serving well-travelled food, specialty coffee and drinks inspired byflavours and ideas from around the world.

We’re a business built around curiouspeople. People who care about what they do, look out for each other and aren’tafraid to try something new. With more openings ahead and a big focus ondeveloping our own people, there’s plenty of room to grow with us too.

Plus, when you workat Caravan you enjoy:

• Free meals & drinks when on shift
• 50% dining discount with up to 4 mates
• 20% coffee retail discount
• Extensive wellbeing support
• Financial health education & support
• Leadership training and development
• A dining voucher when you start, on yourbirthday and your work anniversary, to spend in any of our restaurants
• Real career progression - 80% of ourmanagement roles are filled internally

Our values

• All welcome - We make space for everyone atour table
• No boundaries - Grow, develop and thrive, justa little bit each day
• Caravan of Love - Bring the energy, and bepart of the change you want to see in the world
• Well-travelled - Be curious; learn, taste,experiment and share that knowledge with those you meet along the way

Sustainability

We're all inon both environmental and social sustainability practices. Every team memberplays their part in maintaining our B-Corp certification targets.

Diversity &Inclusion

Everyone'swelcome at Caravan. We respect individual differences in identity, culture andexperience, with our team, and with every guest.