Barista/Cafe Server

The Barista is responsible for delivering an elevated café experience at Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community. This role combines expert beverage preparation with refined hospitality, ensuring residents and guests receive attentive, personalized service in a warm and welcoming environment. The Barista prepares specialty coffee and tea beverages, maintains café presentation standards, and supports the overall cafe experience through professional and engaging service.

Schedule: flexible; part-time hours

Responsibilities

• Prepare espresso-based beverages, specialty coffees, teas, and cold beverages to established quality standards
• Operate and maintain espresso machines, grinders, and related equipment
• Ensure consistency in beverage recipes, presentation, and portioning
• Monitor product quality and freshness throughout service

• Provide gracious, resident-focused service aligned with community hospitality standards
• Greet residents by name when possible and anticipate preferences
• Maintain a clean, inviting, and organized café environment
• Handle transactions accurately using POS systems

• Restock café supplies, pastries, and retail items
• Maintain sanitation standards in accordance with health regulations
• Monitor and record temperatures as required
• Support light food preparation
• Preventing cross-contamination by following recipes and sanitary requirements.
• Highly alert of allergens that residents may have and adjusting to regulations to address allergies.

Qualifications

• Internal desire to learn more, grow, and evolve with the café team.
• Previous barista or specialty coffee experience preferred but not required.
• Experience in hospitality, restaurant, or upscale service environments is preferred.
• Entry level knowledge of espresso and coffee skills
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Basic math and POS proficiency

Physical Requirements

• Ability to stand for extended periods
• Ability to lift up to 30 pounds
• Ability to work in a fast-paced service environment

Professional Expectations

• Demonstrate a polished, professional appearance
• Maintain composure and warmth under pressure
• Exhibit reliability and punctuality
• Support the community’s mission of service, dignity, and excellence

Deerfield is faith-based, nonprofit, open to all, and provides a continuum of services to empower residents to live life to the fullest. We enrich the lives of those who live and work at Deerfield and commit to be a leader in the field of aging services. We provide a non-smoking campus. All new employees must successfully complete a background check and drug screen as part of our onboarding process.

Deerfield is committed to providing access, equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individual with disabilities in all aspects of our employment, our services, programs and activities. To request reasonable accommodation or for additional information, contact us at askhr@deerfieldwnc.org.