Starbucks Barista

Kroger Family of Companies; Newport (KY); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Part time

Job summary

Kroger Family of Companies is hiring a Coffee Shop Associate to deliver exceptional customer service and prepare beverages to customer specifications in a fast-paced setting. You will handle transactions, educate customers about products, and promote new items while maintaining a welcoming atmosphere.

The role emphasizes safety, accuracy, and teamwork in a diverse store environment, with opportunities to engage with customers of all ages and backgrounds.

Qualifications

• Excellent customer service skills.

Responsibilities

• Answer questions about products and keep customers welcome.
• Know products in department and respond with suggestions.
• Promote teamwork to achieve store goals.
• Prepare beverages per recipe and standards; handle transactions per guidelines.
• Offer samples and inform about coffee shop specials.
• Provide fresh products and correct portions to minimize shrink.
• Recommend coffee shop items to meet customer needs.
• Use equipment per guidelines; prepare, package, label, and inventory ingredients.
• Check product quality and sell-by dates; take appropriate action.
• Use espresso machine, blender, scale, and steamer.
• Label, stock and inventory merchandise.
• Report ordering/shipping discrepancies to management.
• Stay current with ads and promotions.
• Follow safety procedures; report hazards and accidents.
• Inspect equipment and notify for repairs.
• Report accidents and security issues to management.
• Work cooperatively in high paced and stressful environments.
• Manage conflicts calmly and professionally.
• Act with honesty and integrity regarding customer and business information.
• Follow directions and seek help when needed.
• Provide support to minors, individuals with special needs, and older adults.
• Perform essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation.

Skills

Customer service

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. RESPONSIBILITIES

• 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

QUALIFICATIONS Minimum

• Excellent customer service skills

Desired

• Any previous comparable experience