I was just curious whether people preferred being on the register or on the bar. After being on the register a while, I *thought* I liked being on the bar better... until I had multiple orders that were written wrong which I had to remake. I guess it depends.. D:
Do you prefer being on the register or on the bar?
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Before I became a shift I was on bar every single day and I was fine w/ that. At the time I liked bar a lot better than front or DT and felt almost lost during the rare occasion that I wasn't on bar; but now that I haven't been on bar I think I prefer being on front most of the time. now if I have to be on bar an entire shift I'm pretty much like FML.
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I always have, and always will prefer bar. That is a well known fact at my store, so when my supervisors are trying to **** me off, they stick me on cash. True story.
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when ist slow the rsgister, when its busy the bar
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bar, hands down. since i'm still a rookie i prefer bar when our business is steady, but either way i find register to be pretty boring and i hop on bar to lend a hand when the cafe is slow
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i HATE being on register with a passion. My SM thinks I'm super friendly and personable (the truth of matter is, she wants the only white barista dealing with customers the most...seriously) so the idiot yuppies love me when it's 6am and they need a friendly face or whatever. Truth of the matter is that I'm a bit of a grump and am really good at faking, I'd much rather be on bar because I like action and when I get a 15-20 drinks I get EXCITED! Double barring's really fun because I always get to do it with my best friend who is my shift and we just have a really good time. But that's only 1 or two days a week I get to bar during the rush. Lame.
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I like being on bar or floating. I hate ringing, primarily because of all the money people throw at me and the customers that pay with coins (with a $10 drink order and a line stretching outside, you probably shouldn't pay in quarters and dimes).
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Bar. Even when it's busy.
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Bar. i am going to explode one of these days when i have to deal with some old **** lady taking 10 mintues to order pay and gtfo of the way when i have 30 people in line.
my all time favorite
OH wait i have the change
yes **** i want to wait 5 mintues while you dig out 94 cents worth of chagne.....die
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Don't you love it when they order their monstrosity of a beverage and THEN take out their damn wallet and scrounge around for the exact change? This is just me, but when I go into a restaurant or a store and plan on purchasing something, I at least anticipate payment.
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I'm more of a till person. But whenever I'm a borrowed partner (which happens 3x/week), they usually put me on bar and I like it. Both.
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I prefer bar. I can't deal with humanity anymore.
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If given a choice between bar and register, definitely bar, but I like floating/bar backing most. I feel like since I'm a shift I'm kind of supposed to anyway to make sure everyone is doing fine, and it also means I have to deal directly with customers less :D In a morning rush, I usually end up doing warming, brewing coffee, getting pastries, rinsing pitchers, restocking, and sometimes taking calls, calling the line, and making cold beverages if I have a spare moment to breathe. It means I get to move around the most and keeps me from getting bored since I'm always trying to figure out what to do next.
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I much prefer bar, too, like derpdaderp. It means I get to focus on doin' stuff instead of talking to people.
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Bar. But sadly where I work, everyone hates register and I always get stuck taking orders. Even if they (my co-workers) have a till, they constantly 'trick' me into going on register. (Taking long cleaning outside/stocking the case outside so I end up getting the customers.) Hate it.
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My fave is to be on bar when I'm a barista deployed to bar. I HATE being bar when I'm the shift and have other things to do.
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I like bar because shifts always want to put me on register so they can leave. They use the excuse "well, you're the only one with a drawer" to make me stay there while they go pull pastries/cups/smoke for an hour. Plus it sucks being on register and having to watch the person on bar steaming milk wrong, making a giant mess, leaving milk sitting out, etc. Drives me crazy.
The one good thing about being on register is that I get great tips compared to everyone else.
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@bookmkin that's pretty much how I feel too I feel like I can't get anything done if I have to be on bar all day. I do like it though.
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it depends on my mood but usually i savor every time i'm on register. just because when youre a lowly barista they like to leave you on bar alone for your entire shift and by the end of it you have a backache and just want to kill yourself.
being on the register is so leisurely..i mean you have to deal with customers a little but more, but whatever u dont have to clean constantly and ..yea
i'm in the wrong business
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Barrrrr. You're just bustin out drinks every second and don't pace around looking at the clock. It's great.
But no, floating is the best because you're doing so much and things are running so smoothly because you're awesome and know how to get sh-t done.
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^whut becca dahling said.
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I hate being on register. you have to SMELL everyone. so many customers put on profuse amounts of perfume or cologne and after awhile I start to get a headache from it... PRETTY RIDICULOUS... oh it's because everyone I get is so "fresh and clean" and going to work.
NASSSSTYY. I find register to be the worst because you ARE abandoned. people **** off and fill carafes, clean condiment bars, shifts do paper work, people tray pastries... while the register person has to call the line, grab all their coffees, put in sandwiches, BREW coffee when they have a chance and then SMELL everyone. terrible.
if I'm left on bar for like over 4 hours, I **** and complain about it and they eventually have me switch with someone.
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couldn't have said it better myself lightningscar. i scratch my head when people tell me being on register is leisurely.
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For weekday mornings, I'd prefer taking register, since I'm stupidly chipper early in the day. I also do relatively well keeping up with the coffee cadence.
For the most part though, floating, for reasons said earlier. You can hold conversation with the customers you pick and choose, instead of getting the full brunt of jackasses on till, and it's less soulless than barring all day (With the bonus of double barring on busy spurts). It does make you feel awesome when you do it too.
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When I'm on register, I have to mark cups, grab and warm breakfast sandwiches and pastries (asiago bagels are the worst!), make oatmeal, change the coffee, switch out empty carafes, and they expect me to make cold drinks when the bar partner "has their hands full".
When I'm on bar, there's a 98% chance that the person on register is "new" (I use quotation marks because that's the term my SM likes to use for partners who have been with the company for 6 months, but still can't mark and/or call drinks correctly), so I end up having to remake a ton of drinks.
I equally dislike bar and register. Floating's where it's at!
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My store is really dead sometimes, so I'm kinda all over the place. We don't really deploy people unless our SM is working, then your till 24/7. I've worked some barista shifts at other high volume stores where your planted on bar for 8 hours. Gotta say, it's a lot of fun. Your off in your own little world zinging out coffee and nothing else matters.
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I've been on bar for every minute of every day for the past two and a half years. I would literarily kill somebody for a chance to be on register.
Posted 2 years ago # -
trade you places, mochajoe...my managers been pushing me to get more practice on front register and drive thru so i haven't had much time on bar. drive thru register has to be my least favorite place to be...it kills me having to stay planted and watch drinks be made when i could jump on bar for a few seconds to help get drinks out faster.
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Fortunately, I work in a store without a drive thru. If we had one, it would probably kill me.
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I definitely prefer bar... when I was a barista I was on bar all the time until we got a new shift who seriously was always **** off at me and only me... she put me on bar zero times in the course of 3 months until I talked to our SM about it. It's like, I get that I can't always be on bar... but seriously, try to put me there at least once a week... she knew I hated drive thru register... and that's where I was, every morning rush, for 3 months. But anyway... now that I'm a shift, I do miss bar during a morning rush although it's really hard to know exactly how everything is going from the bar. So I put myself over there for the rush like once a month just because floating gets old after a while and then I get more bitter and angry. I HATE register with a passion. I do feel like the register person is just off on their own, getting coffees, warming sandwiches, making oatmeals, oh yeah and coffee rotation RIGHT NOW.
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