Café Team Member: Cashier, Barista & Retail Pro

Daily Docket Café; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 19,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Daily Docket Café in San Antonio, TX is seeking a friendly Café Team Member to support cashier, retail, beverage, and food-service operations. The role involves cross-training across cashier, barista, and kitchen duties to cover peak times and ensure guest satisfaction.

You will enter orders in the POS, handle payments, and maintain clean, organized service areas. The position emphasizes teamwork, accuracy, and a guest-first attitude in a fast-paced café environment.

Qualifications

• Previous cashier, restaurant, café, retail, or customer-service experience is preferred but not required.
• Friendly and professional communication skills.
• Dependable attendance and punctuality.
• Ability to learn multiple positions and work effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong attention to accuracy, cleanliness, product quality, and guest service.
• Ability to follow written checklists, recipes, procedures, and manager instructions.
• Comfortable handling cash and using a point-of-sale system.
• Ability to safely operate beverage, retail, refrigeration, and food-display equipment.
• Ability and willingness to receive, organize, stock, and rotate products.
• Must be willing to work as part of a shared team rather than remain at one assigned station.
• Must obtain and maintain a valid Food Handler Certificate that meets all applicable state and local requirements.

Responsibilities

• Welcome guests promptly and provide friendly, helpful service.
• Accurately enter kitchen, beverage, and retail orders into the point-of-sale system.
• Process cash, credit card, and other approved payment transactions responsibly.
• Maintain an accurate cash drawer and follow all cash-handling procedures.
• Answer guest questions and assist with menu selections and retail purchases.
• Run prepared food from the kitchen and beverages from the barista station to guests after payment.
• Maintain awareness of guests throughout the café and respond promptly to service needs.
• Stock and restock retail merchandise, drip coffee supplies, condiments, beverages, and service-area items.
• Properly label, date, store, organize, and rotate products using FIFO procedures.
• Inspect products for freshness, quality, proper temperature, and expiration dates.
• Maintain attractive, organized, and fully stocked retail and food-display areas.
• Assist with receiving, inspecting, organizing, and putting away vendor deliveries.
• Store delivered products promptly in the appropriate retail, dry-storage, refrigerated, or frozen areas.
• Operate assigned front-of-house and beverage equipment safely and properly, including: POS systems, coffee grinders, drip coffee machines, ice machines, water-dispensing machines, coolers, retail standing coolers, cold display tables, and hot display tables.
• Monitor equipment and product temperatures as required.
• Report damaged, unsafe, or malfunctioning equipment to management.
• Complete all assigned opening, closing, and running side-work checklists.
• Maintain clean and organized guest, retail, beverage, and service areas.
• Clean and sanitize equipment, counters, display areas, coolers, and service stations according to company procedures.
• Complete routine and deep-cleaning assignments, including trash removal.
• Follow food-safety, sanitation, cash-handling, and workplace-safety procedures.
• Communicate effectively with the kitchen, barista, and management teams.
• Participate in cross-training for barista and kitchen duties.
• Rotate between cashier, retail, barista, food-running, and kitchen-support positions as assigned.
• Perform other reasonable duties necessary to support café operations.

Skills

Cash handling

Communication skills

Teamwork

Guest service

Multitasking

Attention to detail

Education

Food Handler Certificate

Tools

POS system

Job description

Daily Docket Café in San Antonio, TX is seeking a friendly Café Team Member to support cashier, retail, beverage, and food-service operations. The role involves cross-training across cashier, barista, and kitchen duties to cover peak times and ensure guest satisfaction.

You will enter orders in the POS, handle payments, and maintain clean, organized service areas. The position emphasizes teamwork, accuracy, and a guest-first attitude in a fast-paced café environment.