Essay about Working At Starbucks

Sammy’s experience gave me a personal insight to an experience I once had while being employed at Kroger. The location of the Kroger I was working at was just about to have a grand opening. We had all gathered to the front of the store to have a store meeting to prepare for the opening. Our manager at the time was speaking to us and just telling us about how he was expecting everyone to be on his or her tasks. He wanted to make sure that no one had any questions or concerns of their jobs.

There I saw a variety of all what Ruby had to do on the job. Even though he described what he does on the job the day before, he did leave out some details which I caught from the observation. It is always nice to see someone on the job than for them to simply tell you what they do. Through the observation, I saw the work environment of what it would be like working the opening shift. In the morning before they open at 8am is where I saw a lot of the procedures and health/safety standards being followed. Since I did go in the morning time when they were just opening up, there was not a heavy flow of customers. So I wished I went back to observe what a barista would look like during a rush. Ruby set schedule works the opening shifts on Tuesdays and Thursday. His perspective might not entail all what a barista have to do especially those who might have to close the Starbucks area. On Saturday, February 18, 2017 at 12:02pm, Ruby and I met up so he can review the tasks and KSAOs list with me with any corrections and additions needed to be made. This meeting gave me a final understanding of the job as a barista.

to 6 p.m. for little money. So I did what any money hungry person would do, found a salaried job that worked one hour less. Got there and by the second day on my new job, I was not happy. The boss was a female bully. (What happened to Girl Power?) She bullied any and everyone that she could but I stayed to myself and kept my head down. She didn 't like that. I didn 't want to be apart of her flock. Well that job lasted almost 2 months. Left there and got another job still making the same, with the same hours, and that lasted approximately 3 weeks. So I tried it again and got another salaried job paying a little more, and that barely lasted 2 months. It was always something and many could ask, "well what 's wrong with her?"

1. In the beginning, how was Starbucks different from other coffee options for coffee drinkers in the United States? What activities and assets did Starbucks leverage to differentiate itself from competitors?

The people I was working with made me do a lot of work because it was my first day. It was 90 degrees and I was running all over the parking lot with carts. I pushed myself so hard that I threw up all over the cart, and it was just terrible. Thank God nobody noticed because if they did that would be pretty embarrassing for me. I looked on the left of me and I saw that hot girl I was talking too, and I just walked away slowly. At the end of the day, I ended up putting all the carts inside and closed up the store.

While working at Arby's, you always have something to do. There was never a time where I had time to slack off. I was either cleaning or helping customers. I loved the fast that it was always work available for me to do. No matter if it was slow and we were barley getting customers I still could find something to do on my spare time. I loved that about Arby's, it was always thrilling and exciting.

Coffee is going to be treated just like cigarettes in the state of California, as a carcinogenic product. Coffee sellers must put Cancer warning labels on the coffee sold, according to Los Angeles Superior Court rule on Wednesday.

I have often struggled with my job internally. I would never claim to be the natural extrovert, one to find easy conversation with a customer. There have been weeks where coming to work seemed a difficult, begrudging necessity. I believe those times are what made me a better employee. The lowest lows always make those rewarding times that much sweeter. The hard times made me put my job into perspective, and look past the monotony of it all. I’m happy I work for Wegmans for a multitude of reasons: most of all because it’s given me insight on not only myself but others. The work I do every day I come in for a shift helps to build my experience and character and I am forever thankful for that.

1. Where did the original idea for the Starbucks format come from? What lesson for international business can be drawn from this?

The elusive goal of customer satisfaction has long provided companies with endless headaches and difficult decisions. In the end, associating specific customer satisfaction metrics to company profit and loss would provide the undeniable proof needed to make changes, and then invest the required capital to address any concerns. Starbucks, not unlike the rest of the business world, has found itself in the same situation. At a basic level, the argument that more investment in customer service creates higher customer satisfaction has already been fundamentally agreed upon. However, more specifically, Starbucks must decide if a reinvestment of $40M annually in

It was early March and, being the Mid-west, there was plenty of grey snow on the ground. I was walking back from work, my toes frozen an my ears bright red. I had spent the entire day sitting in my dusty closet-turned-office. It was a temp job so they had given me the best of the best. The lights only flickered when I moved and I got the chance to hear every flush from the men 's restroom on the floor above me. My tasks were menial, data entry, organizing files, stuffing envelops. Some days, if I was lucky, they would let me get coffee for the assistant 's assistant: Two creams, one sugar, don 't screw it up or everyone gets cranky. I hated the job, and I mean that in the best way possible, but it put some

At my Starbucks, we would have one person working each shift. We had three shifts per day, the opening shift, the midday, and the closing shift. With all my luck I got to either open the store, or close the store. I really didn't like opening or closing, but I said to myself, money is

I was officially a Point staff and I was now making something I love to drink. I get to make different types of coffee during the day and also get to experiment on different type of mixes. Not only do I make coffee but I also get to be a cashier, which I enjoy doing.

I was 18 years old at the time, living in Jamaica and attending Colbourne College. Normally, I would participate in volunteer service programs during the summer with the National Youth Service; but, in 2010 I decided to get a part-time job at Mega Mart, one of the largest supermarket chains in the Jamaica. My first day started on a Saturday morning. I met two of my supervisors Carlene and Jacky; and also three coworkers Sean, Stacy, and Christina. Carlene was the person responsible for training me and it went so well that by the next day I was already doing things on my own. Carlene was pleased that I was catching on really fast. On a typical work day, I would restock shelves, assist customers with finding products and once in a while I would be on the cash register. Most of my

I learnt how to pour the special ice cream milk into the ice cream machine as they are heavy and there is a particular way to pour them. While the machine was making the ice cream I cleaned the glass on the display freezers, fridges and the doors. Jacinta showed me how to refill the mix-ins containers and prepare for the cookies and cream ice cream by crushing 6 packets of Arnott 's Delta Cream biscuits in a food processor. I then tried serving some customers, the ice cream is actually quite hard to smash. At 1:00pm we had lunch until 1:30pm. We kept making ice cream until 2:30pm when Jacinta finished and I worked with Jack until 3:00pm, there was a constant flow of people from then on and I left at 3:20pm.