Barista - Old Spike

We are recruiting for specialty coffee baristas for our new Café in central London plus in Elephant and Castle, Fenchurch Street, Peckham and Piccadilly.

Old Spike is the first social enterprise in the UK championing real social and environmental change through speciality coffee. We are on a mission to eradicate homelessness in the UK and protect the planet by launching London’s first carbon and plastic neutral cafés in central London.

Each new site will provide a London Living Wage job for the homeless and support a local homeless charity with a donation-based loyalty scheme focussing on impact.

We are now recruiting for experienced baristas (Min 2 years as a barista in specialty coffee) who have a desire to turn out amazing coffee coupled with social and environmental impact.

Full training will be provided but previous experience working in a speciality café environment is required. - Positive and ‘can- do’ attitude is an absolute must. - Friendly and polite customer service with excellent people skills - Ability to work at a fast-paced environment - High attention to detail – very clean and tidy in the workplace - Have the ability to motivate a team and share knowledge of best work practice. This will be particularly important when working with our homeless trainees

Coffee Experience

• We are looking for someone who has worked within speciality coffee previously with a minimum of 2 year and has a true passion for coffee
• Retail coffee is an important element of sales so understanding the different coffees we have available to sell and being able to speak confidently to this is important
• Can easily dial in the grinder and adjust throughout the day based on different espresso offerings. Familiar with all brewing processes
• Coffee machine and grinder maintenance knowledge
• Great milk texturing and understanding brew ratios and extraction

Equipment

• You will be working on either a Synesso espresso S200 or Eagle One espresso machine, 2 x Mahlkonig E65S GBW and 1 x EK43S shop grinder