What is your value as a barista?

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People have a goal in life, and they should think about where their value lies. There are several reasons why many baristas do not see their future and value:

1. Explain your dreams to others every day, but you don't take action

I have heard a lot of baristas and have a good vision for their own plans.

Some people: plan to have a coffee shop of their own

Some people: dream of owning a very NB device

Some people dream of winning the coffee championship one day.

Recall my dream a few years later: most people always say "no money", "no time" and "no chance".

A lot of good ideas are gone.

I don't like to put "dream" with coffee, because: the dream is always beautiful, but the reality is cruel. To have dreams but not to act is equal to zero.

2. Want to open a shop but have no money

"as long as you can solve the problem with money, it's not a big problem." the problem is that there is no money?

Or do you lack ideas and actions?

You don't have to invest your own money if you want to open a store. What? Can you open a shop without money? You're kidding?

A list of real cases around you:

A boss has opened a coffee shop for three years, but he doesn't have much time to manage it. Finally, he gives the shop to the barista who only needs to pay the rent and a little profit to the boss. The barista pays the staff and his own wages, and the barista is responsible for his own profits and losses.

There must be a lot of people asking: can this poor barista run the shop? The answer is yes, baristas earn 1-2 times more money each month than they did for their previous bosses.

Although it is said that the store does not belong to you, you have fulfilled your dream without spending a penny. Own your own coffee shop! The goal has been achieved!

Many people like to make excuses for themselves: having no money is not an excuse. If you don't make a reasonable plan for yourself, you can't plant seeds for your dreams.

3. Always complaining about others

Many Barista always complain: boss, partner, guest, competitor. But have you never thought that today's work can be done perfectly? Today, in the face of the boss, partners, guests and competitors, it is a very important part of growth to review what you have done. Only by facing up to your shortcomings can you make progress on the coffee road.

Don't always complain about others and don't review yourself.

Did you work hard today?

There are many baristas who always think that one day they will be able to take part in the competition and get a good place.

The idea is very positive, but you are chatting on Wechat with your mobile phone in the store every day.

Then complain every day that the coffee machine is not good, the equipment is not good, there is no master to teach, there are no guests to order coffee. Have you ever thought that apart from complaining, you have found a way to solve these problems from the boss's point of view?

Don't forget your first intention to learn coffee.

5. Want to work hard but don't have a clue

Think about it from another point of view, there are actually many ways to work hard. When the machine in your place of work is not good, you should find a way to increase the turnover in the store. When the turnover goes up, the machine will naturally be updated. Business will not improve as a result of the upgrading of machinery and equipment. No one can teach self-study, in the era of coffee information is not very developed, many people are to search relevant materials to learn coffee, let alone now the network information is so highly developed era. The thing that no guest drinks coffee is very simple. If you want the guest to accept your coffee, you must first accept you as a person, which has nothing to do with your level. If you want to make a good cup of coffee, be a good person first.

6. If you want to make progress, you can only be dry.

Barista is a highly technical profession. In order to improve their skills quickly, many baristas often begin to study some esoteric theories when they have only learned a little bit of basics. As a result, they will go further and further along this road because of their own personal prejudices or misunderstandings. Personally, in order to improve the technology, the first thing is not to rush for success, but should consolidate the foundation, and then steadily improve.

7. Learn something, but always think you are great.

In fact, making coffee is very simple for many employees. It is nothing more than grinding, filling, extraction, flower drawing and other steps. They think that they are very good at making coffee. I used to think the same way, but later, the more I came into contact with it, the more I discovered the esoteric nature of coffee. To borrow a phrase from the 13-year Chinese champion, "the first thing I learned was a cup of Espresso, and the last thing I learned was a cup of Espresso."

8. Practice hard to pull flowers but ignore extraction

I have to say, pull flowers have indeed promoted the development and spread of the whole coffee culture, and people are really proud to inject milk into a cup of coffee to form a variety of amazing patterns. It's great to think that you can pull flowers. But! Although pull flower is important, but extraction is also important!

9. Only make coffee but never serve

In the past few years, I have met a lot of interviewers who only want to make coffee but do not want to do service. I really don't know if there's something wrong with these people's heads. If they only make coffee and don't do service, then what kind of job do you come out to look for? when you have a girlfriend, you are only responsible for sex and don't make your girlfriend happy? A barista personally believes that service is the most important and basic requirement in addition to skills. Coffee is already a catering service industry. If the service is not done well, what is the foothold for coffee?

10. Get a high salary but never help the boss to worry

I forgot when I started to get in touch with another group of applicants, who only knew nothing but 5000 of the basic salary. I asked him with curiosity: I can give you a salary of 5000, what value can you create for me? He dragged his eyes sideways and told me, "I can pull flowers!"

I didn't say anything at that time. I just looked at him silently.

Next, everyone should know the end of the story. In fact, it's not that I can't afford such a high salary, but how much value you can create for me, or in other words, do you deserve it?

Barista! Why hasn't your value increased?