Green Siren
Central, TX
Female, 26
After working all day in a cubicle, I'd spend my nights as your friendly, neighborhood Starbucks barista! I remembered your name, made each drink exactly to your specifications and did it all with a bright smile. I've served celebrities, worked both drive thru & cafe stores, worked every holiday and have kept the customers from knowing about all the craziness that goes on behind the scenes... until now. Ask me anything.
It shouldn’t matter. If Starbucks manages to hire you within a week after you sent in the application, I’ll be impressed. My store manager hired me a within about a month and I had a weekend holiday planned two days after my start date. I told my manager when I accepted the job and it wasn’t a big deal at all.
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I have never lived and worked in California. Furthermore, this is HIGHLY dependent on where you live, what the minimum wage is, and other things that may come into effect. Where I lived, baristas were paid 25 cents above the federal minimum hourly wage.
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Yes, they will train you. Your training manager (probably shift manager) will teach you what the buttons are for and when to push them, like any POS system. Practice will make you faster.
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It depends if you were coded as rehire eligible or not so you might want to call HR and find out. HR may also be able to give you more guidance on the likelihood of recieving a call back if you were coded as ineligible for rehire (or if you can change that).
Personally, I think it's easy to explain and some managers may give you another shot, but I don't know how Starbucks backend works and if those managers would even know you applied.
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Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon
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Server / Bartender
What's the best tip you ever got?
Professor
Are professors really subject to the "Publish or Perish" policy?
Yes, as long as it's within our power to make. For instance, the drink you used as an example would taste terrible! Iced coffee doesn't do well with the white mocha sauce. So I'd say you actually want an iced peppermint white mocha latte or iced peppermint white mocha americano, depending on whether or not you want milk in it.
So yes, we will make any drink you ask for. I've had some crazy ones. And if you're not exactly sure how to order it, ask your barista! They should give you tips or recommendations.
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A small notepad and pen that would fit in your apron or a pocket would be fine. The guy who trained with me had one and it wasn't a problem.
And you should already have a uniform when you start training! Definitely not business casual because you will be behind the counter.
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This question has been answered before so you'll be able to find more details elsewhere in this thread. And as I've said before, many of my co-workers has no experience working in a coffee shop but they still got hired.
The questions mainly revolve about how you manage stressful situations and what you would do in X scenario. An example scenario might be: "The coffee timer is beeping so you need to rebrew coffee, you have a line out the door, someone wants a sandwich heated,your other barista just went on her 30 minute lunch break so it's just you and your shift manager... what do you in do in what order?"
Your interviewer will be looking to see if you have good prioritization skills and what your people skills are like. Making a latte can be taught, but the others take more time to learn. So if you can talk about how you handled stressful situations, you'll be golden!
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