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The role guarantees that customers always receive the drink they expect.\nThe barista is an integral part of the shop team and will be expected to carry out Team Member Star duties as appropriate to business needs.\nRight Pret People: Barista Prepared Drink Training\nTo coach and train Team Member Star Coffee and Baristas in Training on Barista-Prepared Drinks and Standards.\n\nTo liaise with the TMT to ensure all barista-prepared drink training is planned and carried out as appropriate.\n\nTo carry out Coffee team briefs and attend any relevant meetings, courses and conferences relating to Barista Prepared Drinks when appropriate.\n\nTo ensure all hot drink training material is available and up to date.\n\nTo follow Pret’s dress code and be immaculately presented, always wearing the correct Barista uniform.\n\nAmazing Service: Creating Pret Buzz\nTo positively engage with customers and the team about Pret’s Coffee Story and Coffee Menu to ensure Pret Buzz.\n\nTo call down the queue to bust queues.\n\nTo serve Barista-prepared drinks within a reasonable time.\n\nTo ensure coffee calling is clear, appropriate and consistent to the customers and team.\n\nTo “wow” customers with latte art\n\nDelicious Food & Drink: Excellent Barista Prepared Drinks quality & knowledge\nTo make all Barista Prepared Drinks to Pret standards.\n\nTo role model Coffee knowledge and to maintain an understanding about Pret’s Barista Prepared Drinks and standards.\n\nTo be able to communicate with confidence key messages about Pret’s Barista Prepared Drinks and standards.\n\nTo maintain milk quality and coffee quality through tasting and weighing relevant baristas Prepared Drinks.\n\nTo be responsible for the results of Coffee Confidence visits and the coffee sections of the Mystery Shopper and 3D Review.\n\nTo role model Barista prepared drink standard updates and new product launches.\n\nTo report any Barista prepared drink ingredient quality issues to your Manager.\n\nTo role model an understanding of Barista Prepared Drinks in other retailers to be familiar with the different product names.\n\nWell Loved Shop: Barista prepared drink counter operation, cleanliness & maintenance\nTo maintain the Barista Prepared Drinks equipment, Barista box and daily & weekly checks to Pret standards.\n\nTo view the Barista Prepared Drinks counter through a customer’s eyes and clean as you go!\n\nTo role model the 5 point check to ensure you are set for success.\n\nTo carry out log checks, thermometer calibrations and dribble tests in line with Pret standards.\n\nTo role model all aspects of ‘health & safety’ in accordance with the law and Pret standards.\n\nTo role model aspects of ‘food safety’ in accordance with the law and Pret standards.\n\nI am responsible for ensuring I follow Food Safety Standards; and for the Health and Safety of myself, my team and customers. I complete all training, to enable me to understand the Pret standards and safety processes I must follow. I\n\nensure I follow these processes at all times. I immediately tell my Manager when I believe standards or processes are not being met.\nShop Profitability: Barista Prepared Drinks waste control\nTo manage the waste levels of Barista prepared drink ingredients\n\nTo action any issues relating to stock variances and waste for Barista Prepared Drinks as required by your Manager.\n\nGrowing Sales: Maximising Barista Prepared Drinks Sales\nTo have a weekly sales target and share this with the team.\n\nTo know your shop Barista Prepared Drinks sales versus total sales and the mix.\n\nTo ensure sufficient stocks of Barista prepared drink ingredients, packaging and small equipment.\n\nTo use promotional waste to sample and recognise regular customers with appropriate volume of drinks via Joy of Pret.\n\nThis role is only open to applicants within the UK or who already hold the right to work in the UK - we are not able to sponsor visas at this time.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4512,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Catering & Food Services","FMCG & Consumer Brand Groups"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-19T14:50:13Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":39,"reasons":["conf:0","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-21T05:46:15Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/kz-holdings-barista","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/kz-holdings-barista.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-21T05:59:47Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":8699,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":692165},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=692165"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fkz-holdings-barista"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fkz-holdings-barista"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fkz-holdings-barista"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/kz-holdings-barista\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fkz-holdings-barista"}]}