Starbucks Barista

Pay

Starting hourly rate: $20.00 USD per hour.

About the role

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. The Food & Beverage team enables a consistent experience for guests by ensuring product is fresh, in stock, available, and accurately priced and signed on the sales floor. They are experts of operations, process, and efficiency, leading food and food services including replenishment, inventory accuracy, food safety, presentation, pricing, and promotional signing processes for all Food and Beverage areas of the store.

Skills and experience you’ll gain

• Providing a consistent Starbucks experience for guests
• Curating handcrafted Starbucks beverages and food
• Food quality and freshness management
• State and federal food safety and OSHA guidelines

Responsibilities

• Create an easy, inspiring, and friendly guest experience: greet guests within 10 feet (smile, eye contact, wave), engage within 4 feet (warm, helpful interaction), help guests find what they need or resolve issues, end every transaction with a sincere thank you.
• Actively support team efforts and assist peers in other areas while maintaining a positive, respectful attitude.
• Adjust to business and guest needs to deliver an easy and inspiring guest experience.
• Deliver an exceptional guest experience by providing a fresh and abundant shopping experience during all hours of operations, prioritizing the guest’s needs over task.
• Uphold and maintain execution of Food & Beverage Standards.
• Execute food and beverage processes including food deliveries, replenishment, instocks routines, data accuracy, culling, rotation, cleaning, signing, organizing, and storing reserve product.
• Stay aware of current and future Starbucks promotions.
• Follow all Target and Starbucks routines to deliver a consistent experience while completing tasks efficiently and maintaining food safety.
• Maintain an inviting dining area for guests throughout the shift.
• Engage with guests to meet and exceed expectations based on Starbucks standards.
• Produce handcrafted beverages and food to specifications on recipe cards.
• Follow all food safety requirements, including monitoring and recording temperature-sensitive food items per best practice.
• Complete and record all cleaning tasks in the Starbucks space per best practices.
• Locate and identify damaged, recalled, or expired items and process per best practices.
• Ensure accurate in-stocks by placing store-initiated orders per best practices.
• Follow proper perishable inventory procedures for accurate inventory recording.
• Execute sampling best practices.
• Complete all required training and certifications related to quality control of Starbucks products.
• Demonstrate a culture of ethical conduct, safety, and compliance.
• Work safely at all times; comply with safety policies, best practices, and training; report and correct hazards where possible.
• Support guest services such as back-up cashier, Order Pick Up (OPU), and Drive Up (DU), maintaining compliance culture (including federal, state, and local adult beverage laws).
• Perform all other duties based on business needs.

Requirements

Core traits:

• Enjoy interacting and helping others — guests and fellow team members.
• Thrive in a fast-moving, highly active, physically demanding role where teamwork, flexibility, and creative problem solving are key.
• Open to a flexible work schedule with varying hours, days, or shifts (including nights, weekends, holidays, and peak shopping times).

Skills needed from the start:

• Previous Starbucks or food service experience preferred, but not required.
• Welcoming and helpful attitude toward all guests and team members.
• Ability to communicate on multiple frequency devices and operate handheld scanners and other technology as directed.
• Work both independently and with a team.
• Resolve guest questions quickly on the spot.
• Attention to detail and ability to follow multi-step processes.
• Remain focused and composed in a fast-paced environment and accomplish multiple tasks within established timeframes.

Physical requirements

• Access all areas of the building to respond to guest or team member issues.
• Interpret instructions, reports, and information.
• Accurately handle cash register operations as needed.
• Climb up and down ladders if needed.
• Scan, handle, and move merchandise efficiently and safely, including frequently lifting or moving product up to 10 pounds and occasionally lifting or moving merchandise up to 44 pounds without assistance.
• Flexible work schedule (nights, weekends, holidays); come to work when scheduled, work scheduled shifts, and take required meal and rest breaks.
• Ability to work in environments with refrigeration and freezer temperatures where common allergens may be present.
• Capable of working in varying temperatures, humidity, and other elements (e.g., Drive-Ups, carryout).
• Remain mobile for the duration of scheduled shifts (shift length may vary).

Benefits

Competitive benefits covering financial, education, well-being, and more. Eligibility details: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_A

Target considers qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with the San Francisco and City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinances. Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities are available; contact candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com for accommodation requests related to the application or interview process.