Barista

“Hello” and “Koj tuaj” are two ways that Jeany welcomes the customers. Koj tuaj is the same as saying hello, it actually means “you’re here”, so when a hmong customer comes in “koj tuaj” will usually be said. When I asked her what the hardest part of her job was she had stated, “One of the toughest thing was actually interacting with the customers,welcoming them to the store and talking to them”. I agree with what Jeany had said, she wanted me to welcome the customers and I couldn’t even do…

The Baristas at Cups will take the time to have a conversation with the customers. Other shops that are also big like Starbucks just worries about getting your order, writing your name on the Cups and getting you out the door. They have a very hectic atmosphere…

From 1940 to 1990, people with disabilities started to challenge the social barriers that outcast them from communities and even parents of children with disabilities fought against the exclusion and segregation of their children. People with disabilities fought to establish certain civil rights towards federally funded programs, education, housing and the architectural barriers. After years of protesting the creation of Centers for Independent Living arose and most importantly the Americans…

There are some business stories which demonstrate to us that leaders who care that their employees’ benefits exist. The story of Starbucks is one of the great samples of servant leadership. Howard Behar, the former president of Starbucks Coffee Company elaborates his benefit of the leadership style at Starbucks in his book: It's Not About the Coffee: Leadership Principles from a Life at Starbucks (2007). He also discussed numerous difficulties they were faced with amid the quick development of…

to the organized sector. The retail outlets share a particular brand and have similar kind of management, with standardized business procedures and practices. The major players today covering market share all over the world are Starbucks Coffee, Barista Coffee, Café Coffee Day and Costa Coffee. For this study, the two retailers - Starbucks Coffee and Costa Coffee are chosen because of their identical pattern of functioning and growth. They are the two major players in the coffee café industry,…

You plunge a thin, wooden stirring stick into the black sludge the barista dubbed a “Caramel Espresso,” circling your hand back and forth in a desperate attempt at forcing a few flakes of sugar to dissolve. It’s March, possibly the month you detest most, and you’re sitting outside in the biting Chicago breeze. Notes of grease and cigarette smoke dance on the cold spring air, and you wrinkle your nose with disdain. You despise this city—and this café, too; sappy eighties’ tunes play on repeat,…

and the married couple Lily and Marshall. A group of white twenty somethings growing up in New York City, New York. They both have their regular hangout spots that they chill at after work at Central Perk and McLarens. There regular bartender and barista of Carl and Gunther. The new girl that joins the group and the nerdy dorky guy falls for her. And after a full season of wondering if the career driven girl and dorky guy will get together they do for a year and then break up. In the last…

The impatient taps of the person behind you annoyed because the coffee barista is taking longer to get your venti iced black coffee ready. Your break is almost at its end as the barista rushes to hand you your coffee. You stop for a second staring at the box labeled ‘tips’ debating whether to leave a tip or not, of course you don’t and just walk away as the person behind you sneers and slips a five-dollar bill in the tip jar. For what is the reason for tipping, isn’t the person just doing their…

In the article “ECONOMIC RECESSION and CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR) in Singapore”, Professor Peter Shergold identifies what he believes was the main cause of the financial recession then in 2009, greed. This greed stemmed from the emphasis placed on short-term profits that started a cyclical and disastrous trend of borrowing money to support artificially inflated investment returns. Shergold believes this highlights the wrong mind-set that most executives have about business - focusing…

corporate ladder, they were the American Dream in action. However, this changed as their employer’s began to look at their salaries as potential ways to cut costs, and as a result, many white ocular executives found their way into entry-level roles like barista, or cashier.…