Barista & Bartender: Craft Coffee, Cocktails & Perks

BrewDog; Greater London; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Safe ride home contribution £5

Staff discount 50%

Crew food £4 on shift

4-week sabbatical

Other benefits

Job summary

BrewDog Waterloo Grind is on the hunt for a Barista & Bartender to deliver exceptional coffee and cocktails in a high-volume cafe and cocktail bar. You’ll work with La Marzocco Linea PB and Mythos grinders, maintaining quality and speed with a friendly, customer-focused approach.

Our two-floor venue offers brunch by day and a lively cocktail-focused evening service. Prior barista and bartender experience, coffee and cocktail skills, and flexibility across shifts are highly valued.

Qualifications

• Experience in high-volume cafe operations.
• Ability to work with espresso machines and maintain coffee quality.
• Experience with cocktails is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Handcrafting coffee at pace with dialling in grinders and latte art.
• Opening and closing coffee and cocktail stations.
• Provide counter and table service throughout all day parts, breakfast to dinner.
• Craft cocktails that customers love.
• General cleaning and organisation of Grind.
• Support the team in driving results.
• Running drinks to the rest of the venue.

Skills

Barista experience

Bartender experience

Coffee knowledge

Cocktail making

Customer service

Tools

La Marzocco Linea PB

Nuova Simonelli Mythos One

Job description

About Us

OUR MISSION IS TO MAKE OTHERS AS PASSIONATE ABOUT GREAT BEER AS WE ARE

TAXI HOME CONTRIBUTION | STAFF DISCOUNT | CUSTOMER SERVICE INCENTIVE SCHEME | 4-WEEK SABBATICAL EVERY 5 YEARS | CONTRACTED HOURS

We love great craft beer. We want everyone to be as passionate about it as we are - and our bars are at the heart of that mission. You’ll help us deliver an amazing beer and customer experience every shift so, because we expect great things from you, we give great things back.

About Us

OUR MISSION IS TO MAKE OTHERS AS PASSIONATE ABOUT GREAT BEER AS WE ARE

TAXI HOME CONTRIBUTION | STAFF DISCOUNT | CUSTOMER SERVICE INCENTIVE SCHEME | 4-WEEK SABBATICAL EVERY 5 YEARS | CONTRACTED HOURS

We love great craft beer. We want everyone to be as passionate about it as we are - and our bars are at the heart of that mission. You’ll help us deliver an amazing beer and customer experience every shift so, because we expect great things from you, we give great things back.

SAFE RIDE HOME | We want to make sure you get home safe after a hard shift. That’s why we contribute £5 to your pay-check to help you get home safely after midnight. This is open to all our bar crew.

STAFF DISCOUNT | 50% off BrewDog Beers/Ciders, Wonderland Cocktails, BrewDog Merchandise, and Soft Drinks, plus 25% off all other menu items. Crew also get discount on takeaway beer - perfect for taking the bar home.

CREW FOOD | Enjoy a full menu for just £4 when you're on shift - proper fuel for a proper shift.

4-WEEK SABBATICAL | After every 5 years here you will receive an additional 4 weeks off to spend it doing whatever you want.

AND A LOT MORE | Okay, deep breath… enhanced sick pay, life assurance, high street retail discounts, employee assistance programmes, enhanced family friendly policies around maternity and paternity leave, additional holiday days per year, pawternity leave, DE+I and crew forum groups and beer samples on some shifts.

We’re focused on making sure that we, and future generations, have a planet to brew great beer on. Our industry leading techniques help us create and deliver unique beer whilst doing our bit (and others’) for the environment

About The Role

GRIND AT BREWDOG WATERLOO ARE ON THE HUNT FOR A BARISTA & BARTENDER!

We are looking for talented and passionate baristas/bartenders to join our team, comfortable in high volume cafes pumping out coffee and cocktails to a killer playlist whilst maintaining great attention to detail, efficiency and cleanliness when it comes to all things coffee and cocktails.

You must be comfortable working with our machines; La Marzocco Linea PB machines and Nuova Simonelli Mythos One grinders. Most importantly, you must be able to deliver great-tasting coffee in a friendly, engaging and customer-focused manner. We have an awesome cocktail menu full of our twist on classics, so experience in cocktails as well as coffee is admirable.

BrewDog Waterloo is be the BIGGEST BrewDog location in the world, encompassing two floors of amazing craft beer, spirits, food and entertainment in the centre of the city. Our Grind Cafe is a busy coffeehouse with amazing brunch by day and transforms into a bustling cocktail bar and evening food at night. Grind serves coffee and cocktails for our whole 28,000 sqft venue.

Role Responsibilities

• Handcrafting awesome coffee, at pace. Including dialling in grinders, maintaining coffee quality and produce latte art.
• Opening and closing of both coffee and cocktail stations.
• Provide epic counter and table service at every day part as customers explore both Grind and Brewdog - through breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner.
• Craft amazing cocktails that our customers love.
• General cleaning and organisation of Grind.
• Support the team in driving results.
• Running drinks to the rest of the venue
  
  

About You

THE BREWDOG CHARTER

IT'S ALL ABOUT BEER. NO COMPROMISE We make every BrewDog experience the best it can be.

CREATIVITY IS OUR UNFAIR ADVANTAGE New beers. New ideas. New standards.

WE DO MORE IN A DAY THAN OTHERS DO IN A WEEK You get more done when you do it together.

WE LISTEN. WE LEARN No egos, just honesty and transparency.

WITHOUT US WE ARE NOTHING We play to win, and we have fun while we're doing it.