STARBUCKS/BARISTA

Kroger; Chesapeake (VA); On-site; USD 26,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Kroger in Chesapeake, VA is seeking a customer-focused team member for the coffee shop and department. You will deliver exceptional service, answer product questions, and prepare items to standard while promoting specials and ensuring inventory accuracy.

Applicants should be prepared to work in a fast-paced retail environment, collaborate with coworkers, and uphold safety and integrity in all interactions.

Qualifications

• Excellent customer service skills required.
• Any previous comparable experience is desirable.
• Ability to work cooperatively in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to manage conflict in a calm, cooperative manner.
• Maintains honesty and integrity with customers and business information.
• Must be able to perform essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Provide support to diverse customers including minors and seniors.

Responsibilities

• Create an environment that makes customers feel welcome and valued by answering questions about products in the department and store.
• Gain knowledge of department products and respond to questions with helpful suggestions.
• Collaborate with associates to promote teamwork and achieve store goals.
• Prepare beverage selections to recipes and standards; handle transactions per company guidelines.
• Offer product samples to help customers discover new items; inform about coffee shop specials.
• Provide customers with fresh products and correct portions to prevent shrink.
• Recommend coffee shop items to ensure customer needs are met.
• Use all coffee shop equipment and inventory, label and stock department merchandise.
• Check product quality and review sell-by dates; take appropriate action.
• Report ordering/shipping discrepancies to the department manager.
• Stay current with ads; adhere to safety procedures and food safety regulations.
• Inspect equipment and notify management of maintenance needs.
• Report accidents and safety risks to store management; follow theft or fraud reporting procedures.

Skills

Excellent customer service

Previous comparable experience

Ability to work in high paced env

Team collaboration

Honesty and integrity

Job description

Provide exceptional customer service in a safe and clean environment to ensure the customer's return visit. Treat customers/employees in a fair and ethical manner, promoting an inclusive work environment, being a responsible member of the community, providing the right products at the right time with fair and accurate pricing. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety.

• Minimum
• Excellent customer service skills
• Desired
• Any previous comparable experience
• Create an environment that enables customers to feel welcome, important and appreciated by answering questions regarding products sold within the department and throughout the store
• Gain and maintain knowledge of products sold within the department and be able to respond to questions and make suggestions about products
• Collaborate with associates and promote teamwork to help achieve company/store goals
• Prepare beverage selections to recipe and standards and to customer's requests using proper equipment; tender transactions using company best practices
• Offer product samples to help customers discover new items or products for which they inquire about; inform customers of coffee shop specials
• Provide customers with fresh products that they have ordered and the correct portion size (or as close as possible to the amount ordered) to prevent shrink
• Recommend coffee shop items to customers to ensure they get the products they want and need
• Use all equipment in coffee shop such as the refrigerators, freezers, slicers, and ovens according to company guidelines; prepare, package, label and inventory ingredients in merchandise
• Check product quality to ensure freshness; review "sell by" dates and take appropriate action
• Properly use kitchen equipment, espresso machine, blender, computerized scale and steamer
• Label, stock and inventory department merchandise
• Report product ordering/shipping discrepancies to the department manager
• Stay current with present, future, seasonal and special ads
• Reinforce safety programs by complying with safety procedures and identify unsafe conditions and notify store management; adhere to all food safety regulations and guidelines
• Practice preventive maintenance by properly inspecting equipment and notify appropriate department or store manager of any items in need of repair
• Notify management of customer or employee accidents; report all safety risks, issues or illegal activity, including robbery, theft, or fraud to store management
• Ability to work cooperatively in high paced and sometimes stressful environment
• Ability to manage conflict in a reasonable, nonconfrontational and cooperative manner
• Ability to act with honesty and integrity regarding customer and business information
• Ability to follow directions and seek assistance when necessary to resolve customer and business issues
• Provide support and assistance through direct interaction with minors, individuals with special needs, and/or older adults
• Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation