Head of Coffee - Groundup Society Green Street - London

Experienced barista wanted for a busy café. Minimum 3 years’ experience required. Must be confident with opening/closing shifts and knowledgeable in quality coffee and cold beverages.

Are you passionate about making high-quality coffee in a fast-paced, friendly environment? We’re looking for a skilled barista to join our team in Roastery About the Role: As a barista, you'll be responsible for crafting top-notch coffee, delivering excellent customer service, and keeping things running smoothly. What We’re Looking For: • Minimum 1 year of experience in a high-volume, speciality coffee environment, • Strong espresso and milk-steaming skills, with basic latte art ability, • A positive, confident, and open-minded attitude, • Excellent communication skills and a proactive approach to problem-solving, • Ability to work efficiently with great attention to detail and cleanliness, • Availability to work on weekends What We Offer: • Training, support, and opportunities for career progression, • A chance to grow your coffee knowledge and leadership skills, • Paid meals and drinks on shift, • A fun, engaging, and supportive work environment If you love brewing amazing coffee and creating memorable customer experiences, we’d love to hear from you!

We currently have an opportunity for a Barista part time and Full available. This is a great opportunity for a customer focused individual to join a world leading food and facilities management company, which can offer unrivaled opportunities for career progression.Please get in touch and make sure you have experiencesKey tasks and responsibilities Preparing and serving hot and cold drinks such as coffee, tea, artisan and speciality beverages.Cleaning and sanitising work areas, utensils and equipmentCleaning service and seating areasDescribing menu items and suggesting products to customersServicing customers and taking ordersCraft beautiful coffee products and serve all Stepney Green customers with energy, warmth, and empathySupport your GM to help train new employees to succeed at Di Stefano , including ensuring that new team members are following all recipe and training for menu items and processes and that they are in correct uniform, are upbeat and vibes are positiveOpen and close the location safely and responsibly (Key holder) and ensure that cleaning duties for the store are followed at the beginning, during and end of the shiftPositive and solution focused handling of any minor customer issueAt a store level, leads all initiatives with the operations and marketing teams to increase foot traffic, new customers, daily sales, and operational profitability and develop a loyal neighborhood customer base for your store Who You Are Love for cafe and Food culture , peopleFriendly, open and approachable person who is able to work well with othersStrong knowledge of coffee and equipment is a mustStrong decision making and multi-tasking skillsStrong interpersonal communication skillsPassionate about delivering excellent customer connections to create a regular customer baseAble to work at a fast pace in high volume environments.

Why this job exists Italy gave the world its most loved cuisine and has never built a global fast food brand out of it. Every other big category has a winner. The Italian seat is empty. We are going after it. al volo is one shop in the City of London, cooking the full Italian table from scratch every morning: a hot main, two sides, focaccia to finish. That is the Nonna's Box. We are 4.9 stars on Google and 4.9 on Deliveroo, and we have never spent a penny on advertising to get there. The food did that. We need someone to run the shop properly, so we can get on with building the rest of it. The honest version We are small. Two founders, one site, a kitchen and a counter. Ale runs the food. Elena runs the brand and the commercial side. There is no head office, no HR department, and nobody else to hand a problem to. This seat has just come free. Rather than look for someone to fill the same shoes, we sat down and worked out what the business actually needs. This is that job, and it is a bigger one. Some days here are messy. Things change. You will get real responsibility far faster than you would anywhere else, and nobody is going to hold your hand through it. That is the deal. We think it is a good one. What you will own The opening. You are first in. You unlock, you set up, you get the machines on and the counter ready before the first customer walks in at 7. The kitchen team join you around 8. The morning is yours. Breakfast. We are launching a proper Italian breakfast in September: pick your base, pick your toppings, low prep, fast. You will set it up, run it, watch what sells and tell us what to change. It is a brand new revenue line and you are the one building it. The coffee. You are on the machine through the morning. Italian espresso standards, at speed, with a smile for the regulars. The lunch rush. From 11:30 you lead the floor: counter flow, queue moving, display full and looking right, Deliveroo out on time, everyone in the right place. The shop. Rotas, stock, standards, compliance. Temperature logs, cleaning records, allergens, food safety. Not glamorous. Completely non-negotiable. Yours. Real budgets. Coffee and bar, packaging, waste, and in time your own front-of-house hours. We will teach you how all of it works. Then we will expect you to have opinions about it. The shop when we are not in it. Decisions get made. Problems get solved. Nothing sits waiting for a founder to come back. Your first 90 days Month one. Learn the shop properly: behind the counter, on the machine, on the floor. Get to know the team and the regulars. Set the baselines on the numbers you are about to own. Month two. Launch breakfast with us. Take the bar, packaging and consumables budgets. Month three. Take the front-of-house rota and the labour budget. Tell us the three things you want to change, and start changing them. Who we are looking for You have run a site, a floor or a shift somewhere busy, and you were good at it. You know your way around an espresso machine, properly. You are organised in a way other people can see. But mostly: you are the person who spots the thing that is wrong and fixes it before anyone asks. Who has ideas and says them out loud. Who wants to build something rather than just work somewhere. This job is not for you if: You want a job that stops the second the clock says so You need a manual, a policy and a manager to check it "That is not my job" is a sentence you have used recently You would rather be comfortable than be part of something It is for you if you want to look at something in three years and know you helped build it. You will need: Experience leading a team in hospitality, retail or food service Real barista skills. We are serious about coffee. Food safety knowledge and the discipline to keep records properly The right to work in the UK To be comfortable with numbers, rotas and a spreadsheet What you get £30,000 a year, salaried, plus a discretionary bonus Monday to Friday. We are closed at weekends. That said, we are a young business, and now and then something will need doing that does not fit neatly inside a week. We are looking for someone who is there when it counts. 28 days holiday including bank holidays Lunch on us every day, and all the coffee you can drink Level 3 Food Safety and First Aid, funded by us if you do not already have them Room to grow as we do. The ambition is a second site, and then more after that. We would far rather grow the people already here than hire over them. Run this shop well and you will be in the room for whatever comes next, whether that turns out to be the next site or the office side of the business. Thanks Alessandro & Elena Founders, al volo

White Mulberries is a group of three specialty coffee shops serving high quality coffee and brunch since 2012. We are looking for an experienced Head Barista with decent latte art skills to join our team on a full-time basis. The ideal candidate will have at least 12 months of barista experience, demonstrating excellent knowledge of coffee preparation techniques, train our new and existing barista, consistently ensuring the highest standards in espresso, milk texturing, and latte art. If you are enthusiastic about coffee and have the required experience, we would love to hear from you.