What kind of mysterious profession was a barista? What skills do you need?

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Resso) experts in related drinks. Japan and Britain are both famous coffee culture countries in the world, and have developed into a huge coffee market. China, which has a strong tea culture, has broad coffee consumption potential and is becoming the largest coffee consumption market in the world.

The barista is first and foremost a bar worker. The scope of their daily work, the first to carry out tedious bar cleaning, finishing, preparing materials, receiving guests and other work, followed by according to the needs of guests to make a suitable cup of coffee. It's not all as handsome as you can see. In some cafes, they even need to go out of the bar, clear the table and provide more dining service to their guests.

Baristas are also divided into four levels: primary (national vocational qualification level 5), intermediate (national vocational qualification level 4), advanced (national vocational qualification level 3) and technician (national vocational qualification level 2).

Baristas must have skills, solid theoretical knowledge and clear and accurate communication and expression, proficient in coffee-making skills.

To sell coffee beans, you must be very familiar with your products, and you must be able to convey the advantages of your products to buyers accurately and quickly. To sell coffee beans, you must know a series of related knowledge about the producing areas, varieties, flavors, suitable brewing methods, etc., or, with amazing technology, you can directly use the beans to make a super delicious coffee, blocking the other party's idea of questioning.

The road to baristas is already so difficult, why not leave? It's really because of love! Love the coffee industry, love the confidence of yourself when standing at the bar in an apron to introduce coffee to the guests, and love the inner satisfaction of getting the guests' satisfaction and likes. Working at the bar, chatting and communicating with customers is one of the happiest things for baristas. Through professionalism, they can spread the coffee culture to customers and lead them to know how to make coffee beans when they get them. This is a very fulfilling thing. Think about the past in the coffee shop, the proudest is, perhaps, customers come over, will specify to drink your coffee, agree with your attitude towards coffee and like to drink your coffee.

Also because of responsibility, baristas are the most direct way to connect ordinary guests with coffee. Without the careful preparation of the barista, will the guests fall in love with eating coffee beans? Compared with the popularity of coffee abroad, China needs more professional baristas to introduce the beauty of coffee to more people!