Title: Barista
At Maravi, we're passionate about serving exceptional speciality coffee and creating a welcoming experience for every customer. With coffee shops in Christchurch, Bournemouth, Westbourne and Wimborne, we're looking for an experienced Barista to join our lovely team over at our Christchurch store
This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys working in a busy, customer-focused environment and takes pride in consistently delivering high-quality coffee. You'll be part of a supportive team where your skills and enthusiasm will make a real difference.
We're looking for someone who:
- Has previous barista experience and can work confidently during busy periods, with opportunities to lead the coffee machine
- Delivers excellent customer service with a friendly, approachable attitude
- Communicates well and enjoys working as part of a team
- Has a genuine interest in speciality coffee and is keen to continue learning
- Takes pride in producing consistently high-quality drinks and maintaining high standards
- Wants an opportunity to develop and let us help you grow
In return, you'll join a close-knit team that values quality, teamwork and great hospitality. If you're looking for a role where you can build on your experience and work with people who care about what they do, we'd love to hear from you.
Responsibilities:
- Ability to produce high quality latte art and milk texture, working comfortably with both dairy and alternative milks.
- Dialling in espresso to ensure grinder and coffee machine are calibrated at the start of the day.
- Monitoring correct espresso extraction and grammage consistently for each drink
- Helping out with food prep, learning and understanding the food menu & ability to produce menu
- maintaining correct food hygiene standards and following procedures in line with guidelines
- Confident interacting with customers and operating the till, providing excellent customer service and creating memorable experiences.
- Ability to make recommendations and provide information about menu items and retail products.
- Maintaining a clean and organised store, ensuring the floor and service areas are reset consistently.
- Ensuring service is seamless and up to Maravi standards, staying co-ordinated and aligned within the team throughout the shift.
- Ability to function under pressure, and ensure product remains perfect even in busy periods.
- Opening and closing the store following strict procedures to ensure routine is carried out correctly.
- Completing routine stock takes, managing and reporting stock to ensure your store is equipped.
Qualifications:
- Full Barista training
- Moderate to Fluent English
- Drivers licence (preferred)
- Flexible availability
- Excellent communication
- Customer service (1 year)
- Hospitality (1 year)
- Coffee experience (1 year)
Full time/Part time Roles available - flexible hours for the right candidate, must be able to work weekends as well as weekdays. Please note - this is not a temporary role. Candidates must be looking for a long term position.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent, Zero hours contract
Pay: From £12.71 per hour
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
Application question(s):
- Do you consider yourself fully barista trained, with the ability to produce high quality latte art and good knowledge on calibrating the grinder/coffee machine?
Experience:
- Barista: 1 year (preferred)
Work Location: In person
