Who works as a barista at Starbucks?

Does Starbucks UK hire full time staff (barista)?

• I'm planning to apply for a local Starbucks branch here in the UK and I currently work in a hotel full time. My question is does starbucks employ full time employess (barista), by which I mean you have a minimum working hours of 30+ hours per week no matter if its busy or not plus holiday pay and lieu days. As far as I have researched starbucks in the U.S. only take full time for managerial positions. I don't want to risk the stability of my current full time job for a part time hours (holiday pay, discounts, etc.)

• Answer:

  Hi, I work at Starbucks, and they definitely do have full time staff. At our store, the full time staff work most days in the week and sometimes weekends too. You will most likely be contracted a minimum hour amount if you are full time. Warning though, full time usually means going into manager work, being a supervisor and what-not, but it will take training. It took our staff at least 6 months at being full time barista's before we could train to become supervisors. Theres a lot to it, more than what people think. You have to remember all the variations of drinks (all gazillion of them), deal with snotty customers, sort out staff, clean up the worst types of things, from gone off milk to baby sick. You name it, I've cleaned it. Its hard work, but if the pay is good then it should pay off. We're a franchise so wage varies, but I'm on £6.20 an hour as a supervisor, but then of course you pay tax on top of that, so... but yeah, hope that helps, any questions just ask :)