STARBUCKS/BARISTA - Kroger

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
- Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation
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