Is it hard to be a barista in a boutique coffee shop / chain coffee shop?

Since becoming a barista, the code clerk (yes, the code clerk is a multi-duty barista) can often hear friends and guests around him sigh, "Wow, you are a barista!" So envious! Your life is my dream! Your work must be very comfortable! Or maybe the salary of a barista must be very high! " Stop, stop, stop! When did it start? baristas look so relaxed to everyone, and the salary will be very high!

Perhaps the movie / social circle too beautifies the life in the cafe. In the eyes of many people, the barista is bathed in a warm shop full of sunshine every day, listening to melodious jazz, brewing fragrant hand-made coffee, making a latte with a beautiful pattern, with confidence and sunshine in his resolute eyes, watching the guests coming and going, spending the day in comfort and serenity.

I can't make it up anymore! Wake up! The job of a barista is no different from that of a busboy, really! And the salary is very small. Many friends who have worked as baristas will say: "baristas can only be an attitude towards life, and behind their backs they are poor!" The sideline must be set up. " It's really no exaggeration ~ first of all, let's take a look at what job skills baristas need to have! (because it's too long, I put it in the memo and then take a screenshot.)

Do you see the last two paragraphs of the bold words in the picture? "wages don't matter, you can survive without money."... Acceptable, welcome to join the barista profession, can not accept, please consider carefully. That's for sure! The more you work, the more you get paid. If a barista does anything other than making coffee, cleaning and greeting guests, that is, "preparing for a new store and bar design …" in the picture. After that, congratulations, you are a super barista with no rest time. If you can do this, you are either a Party An or a part-time coffee maker. All the aesthetic imagination is only based on the guests' point of view ~ behind the bright barista, it is full of sadness. The guest you think is gentle and considerate, come here quietly, read a book, drink coffee, enjoy coffee time.

The actual guest (part): chat loudly, waiter I want to order, coffee hanging while all kinds of patting, I want warm hands, latte without milk, there is no tea to drink any coffee shop, is there a toothpick here? As for the guests you think, the opportunities you see are like the hidden money in the blind box. The work in the coffee shop is leisurely? It's not! There are thousands of forms of coffee shops, including those that sell cakes and light foods. There are also compound coffee shops that combine bookstores, clothing stores, etc., often the busiest thing is not the production of coffee, but all kinds of things other than coffee. He is nominally a barista, but he is actually a waiter who can make coffee.

"No! I've really seen a leisurely coffee shop! Shop assistants / bosses sit and check their phones / computers. "so there are two possibilities: one is that the coffee shop is an offline experience, and the real business is e-commerce; the other is that you go and cherish it. Maybe the boss is thinking about how long the money can keep the cafe going. Not all the guests in the coffee shop are young artists. Here can be roughly divided into three categories: ordinary consumers who drink coffee quietly after ordering, belonging to angels; coffee lovers who find fault and diss things with little knowledge for half a day, but as long as you have excellent coffee knowledge for dialogue, you can become the "boss" of these people; special people with strong self-culture, egotistical, you can only be helpless.

Baristas not only have excellent hospitality ability, but also need to constantly improve their coffee knowledge, from agricultural cultivation to coffee knowledge to coffee roasting, brewing to industry information to industry development. All things about coffee need to have an in-depth understanding in order to convey the correct concept of coffee culture in front of coffee rookies, instead of just staying on "I want to make a good cup of coffee." Secondly, many people want to be baristas because they can make and drink coffee indefinitely every day. There is a saying that "too much is worthless". When you look at coffee all the time, and you don't really want to know more about coffee, you will soon get tired of the job. Finally, you can't help but sigh: it's better to be a lover.

When chatting, many colleagues will say that after making coffee / opening a coffee shop, they are becoming more and more grumpy and stressed. Because it is completely different from what I imagined at that time, it is very hard to work. Yes, if you only yearn for the life of making coffee and lattes at first, then the reality can deal a heavy blow to you. Why? Because the best selling tea in the coffee shop is lemon tea. This is not only the stem, but also the compromise of many coffee shops to the society. Although a lot of articles have been written, people should not be too idealized to open a coffee shop / be a barista. It's not that baristas have no future, it's just that everyone's thinking is only "I like to make and drink coffee." it's not that you can't make money to open a coffee shop, but you can't do business based on ideals alone, at least in today's society. It's a good thing to stick to your ideals, but reality is reality after all. It's not that you don't support people to be baristas and open coffee shops, but I want you to think clearly about what you want before you do it. In the past few years of contact with the industry, the code clerk knows very well that 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 a good temper in hospitality, the latter is probably not because of making coffee when you are busiest, but as long as you make enough progress and keep learning / self-learning, you will see that there are more interesting things in the coffee industry than making coffee and drinking coffee. Only when you become strong, can you see further.

If you choose this career only because you think the job of a barista is easy, please think twice. All the standing still will not allow yourself to make any progress, and a lot of precious time will be wasted. All jobs have their own unspeakable secrets, and no job is really comfortable. Once a sentence in a book left a deep impression on the code clerk: "your so-called stability and comfort is just a waste of life." Don't waste your precious "capital" because of what you feel comfortable for the moment. Photo source: online professional coffee knowledge exchange for more information about coffee beans, please follow the coffee workshop (Wechat official account cafe_style)

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