Aloha!
Maybe some of you can donate their thoughts, it will be highly appreciated:
Background:
I have some experience with hiring employees, but only based on my advertising agency
If I'm going to hire employees to work as baristas, I have two thoughts:
1) I hire someone who hasn't been a barista before, so that I can train them my quality standards. So I don't have to be afraid, that some ex-Starbucks or snobbish ex-waiter relapses into his old habits after a while or when not monitored, like "refrothing-frothed milk", or other rituals they have been used to.
2) or I DO hire a professional barista and some newbies, so that the barista makes things hum at the beginning.
What do you think, or what experiences have you made in your coffee shop?
And are there some special questions I should ask an applicant at the interview, besides the common ones? Something that immediatly proofs something special? If there are baristas in this group - what would you ask a possible new colleague?
Thanks for your patience to read this and maybe answer it
Curious Joey
PS.: If everything works out as planned, I will need some good employees from May/June for full and part time work in Vienna. (lure, lure )
PPS.: I hope you are not jealous if I post this question at CG, too, but I would like to have as many opinions as possible. Not that I don't trust yours, but this is still a small group, and I think some questions are universal