Quick service restaurant crew member to barista
A quick service restaurant crew member already meets 48% of what the barista role asks for. The move turns on 10 required skills not yet in the profile.
54.2/ 100
1 How much of what a barista is expected to do is already part of a quick service restaurant crew member’s work. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs, because moving into a speciality is not the same problem as moving out of one. 2 Every skill the barista role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.
Why this move works
A barista role treats 10 of its required skills as things a quick service restaurant crew member already does. You would walk in with these on day one.
- check deliveries on receipt
- comply with food safety and hygiene
- educate customers on coffee varieties
- educate customers on tea varieties
- execute opening and closing procedures
- greet guests
What stands in the way is 10 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 10 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A barista role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a quick service restaurant crew member background worth leading with.
- already held educate customers on tea varieties communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held execute opening and closing procedures communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held take food and beverage orders from customers communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held educate customers on coffee varieties communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held work in a hospitality team communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held check deliveries on receipt management skills
All 10 carried skills, including the 10 the barista role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you may need to learn
The 12 missing skills fall into 4 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered in the order worth working in. Areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the optional ones. Nothing here is a verdict on you: it is a list of what this particular job asks for that your current one does not.
- still to learn maintain relationship with customers required
- still to learn present decorative drink displays required
- still to learn handle customer complaints required
- still to learn maximise sales revenues required
- still to learn work according to recipe required
- optional, not held apply foreign languages in hospitality optional
- still to learn set up the coffee area required
- still to learn prepare hot drinks required
- still to learn prepare specialised coffee required
- still to learn handover the service area required
- optional, not held ensure maintenance of kitchen equipment optional
- still to learn maintain equipment for non-alcoholic drinks required
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a barista role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 maintain equipment for non-alcoholic drinks practise this
- 02 set up the coffee area practise this
- 03 handover the service area practise this
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 10 skills that carry over
- already held check deliveries on receipt skill
- already held comply with food safety and hygiene skill
- already held educate customers on coffee varieties skill
- already held educate customers on tea varieties skill
- already held execute opening and closing procedures skill
- already held greet guests skill
- already held maintain customer service skill
- already held take food and beverage orders from customers skill
- already held upsell products skill
- already held work in a hospitality team skill
2 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held apply foreign languages in hospitality optional
- optional, not held ensure maintenance of kitchen equipment optional
14 held skills the barista role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role clean surfaces skill
- not needed by the target role devise special promotions skill
- not needed by the target role maintain personal hygiene standards skill
- not needed by the target role monitor stock level skill
- not needed by the target role prepare orders skill
- not needed by the target role prepare ready-made dishes skill
- not needed by the target role prepare sandwiches skill
- not needed by the target role present menus skill
- not needed by the target role process payments skill
- not needed by the target role receive kitchen supplies skill
- not needed by the target role store kitchen supplies skill
- not needed by the target role take drive-through orders skill
- not needed by the target role use cooking techniques skill
- not needed by the target role use reheating techniques skill
Other moves recorded from quick service restaurant crew member
- quick service restaurant team leader 41% covered · substantial
- kitchen assistant 32% covered · substantial
- doorman/doorwoman 32% covered · moderate
- grill cook 29% covered · substantial
Full index of moves from quick service restaurant crew member
Common questions about this move
Can a quick service restaurant crew member become a barista?
Yes, and it is a moderate move. A quick service restaurant crew member already covers 48% of what a barista is expected to do: 10 skills carry over, 10 of which the barista role treats as required.
What skills does a quick service restaurant crew member need to become a barista?
10 required skills are missing, plus 2 optional ones. They fall into 4 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by communication, collaboration and creativity. The single most important is maintain equipment for non-alcoholic drinks.
How hard is the move from quick service restaurant crew member to barista?
Its learning distance is 54.2 out of 100, which is the moderate band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.