Barista job prospects What are the conditions for barista before learning barista

We have written a lot about "baristas". In the comments section of an article, a reader commented: "if you don't study hard when you are young, you want to be a barista when you grow up."

This sentence brings us a lot of thinking. We think that this sentence seems to be making fun of the profession of "barista", but it is not.

In the whole coffee chain, coffee farmers, bean hunters, roasters and baristas are the most common coffee positions in the coffee field, while baristas are the end leaders of the entire production chain of coffee from "seed to cup" and a key link in coffee. because baristas are closest to consumers, baristas largely determine whether coffee can sell better.

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This career directly connects with the consumer group, and this seemingly innumerable "barista" profession needs to learn important skills that go far beyond the superficial "making coffee and communicating with guests."

To be a barista is to study hard!

Baristas need to learn in their daily work, such as making a good cup of coffee, creating a good cafe atmosphere, developing excellent communication skills, and having professional coffee knowledge dissemination skills.

Make a good cup of coffee

Baristas who wear aprons every day also try their best to make a good cup of coffee for every guest.

Because "I am a barista", it is necessary to know how to identify the types of coffee beans, learn to bake beans, and be able to pull out a beautiful flower at any time to make a cup of quality coffee for guests.

Create a good cafe atmosphere

Like the catering industry, baristas face the same thing every day, repeating the same work and having a heavy workload, but even so, for baristas, creating a good cafe atmosphere is as important as making a good cup of coffee, which is probably why many people like to stay in a cafe.

Develop excellent communication skills

As mentioned above, numerous "baristas" meet every day for all kinds of guests, perhaps different ages, different professional guests, or guests of different nationalities. But in such a scenario, baristas must receive and process important information from guests in a very short period of time, and ensure that the information will not go wrong, which requires baristas to have excellent communication skills and adaptability at any time. At the same time, sometimes the mood gets better after a small chat with the barista, but the reason is that the barista narrows the distance with the guests, making them feel welcome and relaxed.

Professional coffee knowledge dissemination skills

Baristas as the last link of "from cup to cup", baristas should not only know the history, culture and varieties of coffee in each country of origin, but also master how to grow coffee and the influence of various conditions. When guests have all kinds of doubts, baristas also need to be patient to answer questions for guests, but the knowledge of coffee is far more complicated than we know. Professional coffee knowledge dissemination skills for baristas: learning is never-ending.

From the simple summary above, it is obvious that it takes a lot of time and energy to learn to be able to proudly say "I am a barista".

Prior to this, Coffee Salon conducted a survey and analysis of baristas in the 2021 Coffee Census report, which pointed out that baristas are mostly young people between the ages of 19 and 25, and more and more highly educated people have chosen to work as baristas.

Some people may question that there is no way out for baristas in the future, but there is no way out. In fact, the answer has long been in front of us. A barista who really knows how to learn will have more ways out the farther he goes in this industry.

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