Starbucks Barista

Kroger Family of Companies; Sugar Land (TX); On-site; USD 17,000 - 21,000; Full time

Job summary

Kroger Family of Companies in Sugar Land, TX seeks a customer-focused associate for the coffee shop section. You will assist customers, prepare beverages, stock and label items, and ensure quality and safety in a fast-paced store environment.

Ideal candidates have excellent customer service skills and any related experience. The role supports teamwork across departments and adherence to store policies, with opportunities to engage customers and promote store promos.

Qualifications

• Excellent customer service skills.
• Any previous comparable experience.

Responsibilities

• Create an environment where customers feel welcome, important, and appreciated by answering questions about products and services.
• Maintain knowledge of department products and respond to inquiries with helpful suggestions.
• Collaborate with teammates to support store goals and promote teamwork.
• Prepare beverages to recipes and standards, processing transactions per company practices.
• Offer samples and inform customers of specials to drive sales.
• Ensure fresh, properly portioned products and monitor food safety and dates.

Skills

Excellent customer service skills

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