Do baristas in boutique cafes pay well? Is the coffee shop chain barista working hard?

Since becoming a barista, the typesetter (yes, the typesetter is a multi-tasking barista) has often heard friends and guests around him exclaim,"Wow, you're a barista! So envious! Your life is my dream! Your job must be comfortable! Or maybe the barista must be paid a lot!" Stop, stop, stop! When did baristas start to look so relaxed to everyone and pay so much?

Perhaps the movie/social circle beautifies the life of the cafe too much. In many people's eyes, the barista bathes in the warm shop full of sunshine every day, listens to melodious jazz music, brews the fragrant hand-brewed coffee, makes the latte with beautiful patterns, reveals confidence and sunshine in his firm eyes, looks at the guests coming and going, and spends the day in comfort and calm...

I can't go on!! Wake up! The barista's job is no different from the handyman's, really! And the salary is very small... Many small partners who have practiced the barista profession will say this: "Barista can only be a kind of attitude towards life, and secretly is a poor ghost!" A sideline must be started." There is really no exaggeration ~ first let's take a look at what job skills baristas need to have! (Because it's too long, I code it in the memo and screenshot it again)

See the last two paragraphs in bold in the picture? "Salary does not matter, no money can survive"…acceptable, welcome to join the barista profession, unacceptable, please consider carefully…of course! If a barista can make coffee, clean, and greet customers, that is, after the "preparation of the new store, bar design..." in the picture, congratulations, you are a super barista without rest time. To be able to do this, you are either a party or a part-time barista. All the beautiful imagination is only based on the guest's point of view ~ behind the glamorous barista, it is full of sadness... you think the guest: gentle and considerate, come quietly, read books, drink coffee, enjoy coffee time.

Actual guests (partial): chat loudly, waiter I want to order food, coffee drying while patting, I want warm hand brew, latte without milk, no tea to drink what coffee shop, there is no toothpick here... and you think guests, the opportunity to see is like a blind box inside the hidden money. Coffee shop work is easy? It's not! Coffee shops come in thousands of forms, from cake shops to light food shops... to complex coffee shops that combine bookstores, clothing stores, etc. Often, the busiest ones are not coffee production, but all kinds of things other than coffee. A barista in name, but a waiter who can make coffee.

"No! I have seen a very nice coffee shop! The clerk/boss is sitting watching the mobile phone/watching the computer."So there are two possibilities here, one is that the coffee shop belongs to the offline experience, and the real business is the e-commerce; one is that you go and cherish it, and maybe the boss is thinking about how long the money can make the coffee shop last. Coffee shop customers, really not all literary youth. Here can be roughly divided into three categories: ordinary consumers, quiet coffee after ordering, belonging to angels; picky coffee lovers, holding their own half-understood things diss for a long time, but as long as you have excellent coffee knowledge for dialogue, you can become these people's "big brother"; There are special groups of people with strong own culture, and they are exclusive, and you can only be helpless. In addition to having excellent hospitality skills, baristas also need to constantly improve their coffee knowledge, from agricultural cultivation to coffee knowledge to coffee roasting, brewing to industry information to industry development... Everything about coffee needs to have in-depth understanding, in order to convey the correct coffee culture in front of coffee white, rather than just stay in "I want to make a cup of coffee." Second, many people want to be baristas because they can make unlimited coffee and drink unlimited coffee every day. There is a saying called "more is not valuable", when you are facing coffee all day long, and you do not really want to know more about coffee, you will soon get tired of this job, and finally can not help but sigh: still be a lover.

Many colleagues will talk about their own coffee/coffee shop, more and more grumpy, more and more pressure. Because it was completely different from what he imagined at that time, it was very difficult to work. Yes, if you only yearn for coffee and latte flower life at first, then reality can give you a heavy blow…Why? Because the best seller in coffee shops is lemon tea...(this is the stem, but also a lot of coffee shops to the social compromise). Although the article is written a lot, let's not be overly idealistic about opening a coffee shop/being a barista. Barista is not without a future, but everyone's thoughts only stay in "I like to make coffee, drink coffee", open a coffee shop is not unable to make money, but can not rely solely on ideal feelings to do business, at least in today's society, is not feasible. It's good to stick to your ideals, but reality is reality.

It's not that I don't support everyone to be a barista or open a coffee shop, but I hope everyone thinks clearly about what they want before doing it. After a few years of contact with an industry, the typesetter clearly knows that the baristas in chain coffee shops and independent coffee shops are very hard... The former is a ruthless coffee robot, but you can learn some useful management knowledge for your future work and hone your good hospitality. The latter is probably the busiest time for you. Not because of coffee, but as long as you grow enough, keep learning modestly/self-learning, you will see that the coffee industry is not only coffee and coffee. There are more interesting things than that. Only when he became stronger would he be able to see further.

If you choose a career as a barista because you think it's easy, think again. All the in-situ, will not allow themselves to have any progress, but also waste a lot of valuable time. All jobs have their own secrets, and no job is really comfortable. There was a sentence in a book that impressed the writer: "Your so-called stability and comfort are just a waste of life." Don't waste your precious "capital" because you feel comfortable for a while. Photo source: Network professional coffee knowledge exchange More coffee bean information Please pay attention to coffee workshop (Weixin Official Accounts cafe_style) More fine coffee beans Please add private WeChat Qianjie coffee, WeChat signal: kaixinguoguo0925