- Coffee drinks are just as difficult to make as mixed drinks: a bartender’s basic concoction of Jack and Coke has nothing on a ristretto double macciato with 1% milk and a dash of caramel.
- There are no dispensers shooting out milk, syrup or espresso like a bars soda and tonic dispensers.
- Coffee drinks are just as exacting as fancy mixed drinks: sometimes three or four ingredients must be used to make a specialty coffee drink.
- Drinks in coffeeshops and bars cost relatively the same: but bartenders receive on average a 20% tip or far better for a drink with the same cost. Baristas receive somewhere between 0% and 30%.
- At busy shops baristas say thank you for a decent tip, unlike any bartender at a crammed bar who gets a dollar tip for pouring a draft beer.
- Baristas have dozens of customers drinks memorized, which are far more exacting than a bartenders.
- Baristas have to concentrate, rush and be courteous just as much as a bartender.
- Baristas have to deal with unruly customers just like bartenders.
- Barista, although not given the same respect as bartenders, work long hours and attempt to make delicious, expensive drinks just as bartenders do.
- There are many coffee types, just like booze or wine, which require a decent knowledge base to describe the proper characteristics to a curious customer.
- There are many teas (herbal, organic, caffienated) as well that must be known and served to particular customers.
- Both baristas and bartenders have to handle difficult situations: irate customers who believe they received the wrong drink or have an inane problem with the proper proportions of ice.
- Both baristas and bartenders have to wipe off counters, bottles and machines a hundred times a day.
- Both baristas and bartenders have to be submissive to blockheaded bosses.
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Phillip B.As a barista for two decades and a coffee lover, these insights are years in the making. Archives
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