/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>9596260
Baristas certainly expect you to think so

>>9596260
No, but it is a pretty reliable way to get work if you need it. Espresso stands are everywhere now.

>>9596260
the the world of addiction/mental health treatment, therapists often recommend barista as a "sober job" to help a degenerate person reintegrate themselves into society.

Being a coffee cunt is a respected career in Portland and Chelsea NY.

>tfw 27 year old bus driver
>no bennies,have to buy health insurance
is it too late to be a badass barista ?

>>9596765
You think it's gonna be any better with a 16 year old-tier job?
Top zozzle

>>9596765

>buying health insurance

you have to be retarded to buy health insurance.

>>9596858
You are a child and don't understand anything.

>>9596765
Starbucks offers health insurance plans for part time employees. Some people move on to better jobs but keep working 1 shift a week at starbucks to keep the insurance they offer. So I assume its good.

Im good at making coffee at home and am a pretty good people person. should I make a career at starbucks?

>>9597126
>career at starbucks

>>9597126
are you a heterosexual white male? Then no.

>>9596260
>Is being a barista a respected career in the food business?

No but it is certainly a respectable career in the beverage business

>>9597194
wouldn't that be a diversity hire by now

>>9597217
You would think...

>>9597126
small coffee shops, sure, the douchier you look, the better,

starbucks where I live are staffed almost exclusively by attractive high school girls, you have no chance if you're not also cute

>>9596260
>Is being a barista a respected career in the food business?
No but that beard is. Damn I feel like if you gave me two months I could compete.

>>9596260
>undercut
>handlebar mustache
>barista

What are the odds this guy is also REALLY INTO craft beer? I fucking hate people...turning yourself into a stereotype doesnt make you and individual

>>9597669
Every human being can be stereotyped. Fucking Yale did it with a small grid and less than 200 questionnaire. Also while the beard is cool, that haircut is not.

>>9597678
I get it. Im sure I fit into at least a couple stereotypes. But Im not going to a barber and saying give me that "im a barrista in Portland" look.

If you're a twenty something year old semi attractive male, just get a job at a Starbucks in a more affluent part of town. The clientele is probably older and you'll rake in those old lady tips.

Imagine the hairs these faggots must drop in the coffee

>>9597811
Leave him alone. Hes just a unique individual that cares about coffee.

Unless you own a restaurant, you will never be respected in the food business.

As with all professions, if you are a male you will be respected, if you are a female you will not be.

>>9597811
When did these kinds of males become commonplace outside of Portland? They're everywhere now.

Why are mustache so frowned upon these days unless you have a big shaggy ugly beard to go with them? Literally any mention of a mustache brings up accusations of retired porn star or pedophile.

>>9597821
As with all professions, actually doing your job makes you get paid and respected. Whining does not.

>>9597838
>mfw lower class people actually believe this

>>9597840
Mah vagina is not an excuse. I respect XO's with women more often than I have with men. Suck it up and do your fucking job.

>>9597851
You do you, my friend.

>>9597825
theyr'e called numales sweaty, theyv'e been around for years

>>9597194
I'm a white tranny, is it too late?

>>9598086
I guess

>tfw ugly
>tfw dream of being a barista will never come true

>respected job
>food industry

>>9596260
unless you're making balloon animals with your milk froth... no

>>9596260
Only if you're good at it.

>>9596765
I thought bus drivers make a ton

>>9596260
anything server level isn't respected

>>9598422
Don't be so hard on yourself Cocoa, I think you're beautiful.

>>9596260
It's like being 8% of a bartender, so no.

>>9598075
I'm pretty sure they're just called hipsters and "numale" is some kind of newspeak word /pol/ made up to imply they're some kind of freakish deviants because of their sense of style and political opinions.

>>9598538
t. someone who rarely browsed /pol/

>>9596863
no, he's frugal and you're a dumbass.

>>9596260
no but its the only job some faggot ass millennial with face tats and 3" holes in their ears can find work.
if i see one of these nu-male bern-outs i fucking leave and never go back. fucking degenerate wastes.

>>9597685
Do you get the bird nest? Or the Hitler Jugend?
Or layered like a beta nerd?

>>9598691
okay /pol/ take a deep breath, back to your safe space

>>9598538
how else will they virtue signal to their fellow anonymous chums that they are totally unlike these people in every way?

what they dont even realise is, if you're a millennial you are a "numale" in the truest sense of the word, just maybe not to the degree of someone like >>9597811

>>9598808
enjoy your cake.

>>9598538
learn some shit.
>>9598808
never come back here when you leave.

>>9597811
i'd go get my coffee somewhere else if that cunt was working

>>9596260
>in the food business?

No. If you try to get a legitimate cook job and your only experience is "barrista" you'll get laughed out of the place...

As a barrista, you're only qualified to be a busboy or dish washer in any real restaurant.

>>9599395
>As a barrista, you're only qualified to be a busboy or dish washer in any real restaurant.

This.

>>9599336
we all would anon, we all would

>>9599395
Restaurant manager here.

Sure, a Barrista's job requires no cooking skill so I wouldn't expect he or she to be able to do anything useful in the kitchen. But, they are used to dealing with customer service issues, special requests and so on so they'd be well suited for a front-of-house role.

>>9599459
>so they'd be well suited for a front-of-house role.
or under-the-table role.

>>9599536
More like the "bent over a pile of flour sacks role" in my restaurant. But yeah, agreed.

>>9599459
>But, they are used to dealing with customer service issues, special requests and so on so they'd be well suited for a front-of-house role.

You want a snooty ass, bearded, fucking nose in the air pretentious faggot to host and shoo away potential customers at the door?

lol

Most people would take one look and then keep walking to find a "real" restaurant.

>>9599553
Not all baristas are bearded numales.

And as for being pretentious and stuck up? That's pretty much the norm for hostesses.

>>9596260
HAHAHAHAHA

>>9598456
A ton of stops

Yes, I actually got into a top medical school but my parents wanted me to be a barista

>>9599549
>More like the "bent over a pile of flour sacks role" in my restaurant.

I want to come to your restaurant

>>9596260
>be right after gym
>forgot to bring my shaker so head to Starbucks for a protein shake
>ask for extra protein powder
>sissy twinky Asian barista looks at me up and down
>"just got back from the gym? nice pump dude haha lookin' good"
>"th-thanks"
>mfw

>>9597217
Stupid anon, white people are not included in diversity

>>9599403
You added nothing to the conversation, redditor. You're such a fucking dumbass.

>>9598538
You seem upset.

Respectable for the shit people they put up with
Outside of that I don't see much else

>>9601884
Your whining about muh reddit boogeyman didn't add anything to the thread either

>>9601931
t. Asspained redditor
Kill yourself.

>>9597678
>the beard is cool

>>9601512
>buying overpriced protein shakes instead of having a canister of whey at home

I'm a one-legged combat veteran who cannot work standing up. Would Starbucks have anything to offer me, job wise?

>>9601936
>trying this hard to fit in

>>9597678
>Fucking Yale did it with a small grid and less than 200 questionnaire

Can you elaborate on/give sauce on this?

>>9601952
Nah, you don't have a leg to stand on

>>9597825
right after Portlandia kinda sorta blew up a few years ago

>>9597837
Because the faggots that has them are so disgustingly feminine and don't know the first thing about grooming,.

>>9596260
No such thing as a barista outside of Italy.

>>9596260
Like every job in the service industry, it's only respectable if you work at a respectable place.

You push pumps at starbucks? Not a respectable "career"

Your the manager of a specialty coffee shop in corporate lobby paid for entirely by that corporation? Yes respectable career.

>>9596260
I can't really respect it. Grind. Dose. Tamp. Extract. Stretch milk. Pour. Serve.

It's not exactly rocket science. Especially with most modern espresso machines having pressure and temperature presets that can't possibly be fucked up. I don't know why it's its own thing. I mean... In a cynical sense I guess I do... It's like how being a "disc jockey" is a profession. The job itself is unimportant but it's occupied by a self-aggrandizing asshole making out it to be more complex than it actually is.

I worked in an Italian restaurant and there was no appointed "barista." Everyone was expected to know how to fucking make coffee. Even the non-Italian cazzo.

>>9598825
>>9598808
>>9598538
Nu-males are a subculture of hipsters.
I mean you can listen to die antwoord, dress funny and grow facial hair while also not being a sissy

>>9598422
Stick to baking pastries faggot.

>>9603175
>Being this sheltered

>>9596260
not even a little, only college students who havent been baristas think baristas are cool. then they become baristas and realize that it's shit pay for shit work that will make you smell like a variety of fluids far less delicious than coffee

>>9603593
Is it semen