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.
Beyond store manager there are district and regional managers that you could likely get from starting at a barista with no previous experience. That said, my belief is that having experience with Starbucks may be a plus when going to the corporate side.
I think that a person with no work experience outside of Starbucks will NOT easily make it into the corporate office. However, if you are one of the best candidates for a corporate job and you have previous Starbucks experience, that might be an advantage.
This isn't anything Starbucks has specifically said, but any worthwhile company will value staff with experience--especially at the lowest level--and Starbucks is no exception.
A tall Americano gets two shots. The espresso machines that my Starbucks had (it has since been upgraded and I can't speak to the new machine) pulls two shots every time. Those two shots go into your Americano. If you only have one shot in a drink, the cup is positioned so that it only captures one of the shots and the other drains out.
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!
Starbucks corporate would be your best bet. Call the partner line.
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Yes, Starbucks uses a company named Ecosure for Quality Assurance Standards Audit. Starbucks main office could better advise you more details.
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.
Yes. Talk to your store manager and the store manager in the location you plan to move. It must be approved by both.
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