Need advice for Hiring staff!

What Kind of person to hire?

  • Just Females

    Votes: 22 36.7%

  • Hot Blonds

    Votes: 24 40.0%

  • Hot Asians

    Votes: 28 46.7%

  • Hot Brunettes

    Votes: 21 35.0%

  • Hot Gingers ( do they exists )

    Votes: 14 23.3%

  • Random Douches ( Guys )

    Votes: 9 15.0%
  • Total voters
    60
RedFireGreg

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Ok so I am opening a coffee shop in Vancouver in a few weeks and am going to be doing the hiring soon. So I though a poll of what type of barista would the WF crowd like. So I though I would ask.

1. Just Females
2. Hot Blonds
3. Hot Asians
4. Hot Brunettes
5. Hot Gingers ( do they exists )
6.. Random Douches ( Guys )


I was thinking of mixing it up with just hot chicks, and maybe one or 2 with some sort of cool accent.


I was gonna posts TITs but I fear the accidental re-post of some of hacks tits so feel free to vote by show tits of your choice.
 


i mean you could always hire someone who knows what they're doing. if i wanted to see boobs i'd go to a strip club, or just pick up a chick, not go to a coffee shop
 
papajohn56 said:
i mean you could always hire someone who knows what they're doing. if i wanted to see boobs i'd go to a strip club, or just pick up a chick, not go to a coffee shop
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Comon PJ, you know better than to put your personal outlook in the same ballpark as a potential customers. You'd be surprised by how many people think otherwise.
 
just hot chicks....

you go with just one type you're turning some people off....

"variety is the spice of life."
 
Depends on who you want your clientele to be? Who do you consider your customer base? What demographics are you going for? Where is your location? What is the inside vibe of the place going to be?

From being at Starbucks the last several times, 75% of their customers, from what I saw are women. So, you might want to hire a couple of 'qualified' attractive guys.

Remember though, with hiring a bunch of women, a lot of times a lot of 'drama' will follow. Have I said 'a LOT' yet?

Do yourself a favor and look for attractive personalities, instead of looks. Find funny, customer service focused, intelligent folks that like to think for themselves and treat every one of your customers like they were their elderly grandmother.

You find those and you'll succeed quite easily (keeping in mind you P/L is under control).

If you don't care about how successful you are - hire the one with the best looking face and biggest tits. Hair can be dyed!
 
Guy, just hire people who are good at their job. if they good at barista'ing, they will create a great rapport with customers, who by the way could be, black, white, asian, gay, lesbian, transgender etc etc, and that will lead to better sales. When you fully established you can muck around with stuff like hiring specific types to see if sales increase.
 
Gertex said:
Depends on who you want your clientele to be? Who do you consider your customer base? What demographics are you going for? Where is your location? What is the inside vibe of the place going to be?

From being at Starbucks the last several times, 75% of their customers, from what I saw are women. So, you might want to hire a couple of 'qualified' attractive guys.

Remember though, with hiring a bunch of women, a lot of times a lot of 'drama' will follow. Have I said 'a LOT' yet?

Do yourself a favor and look for attractive personalities, instead of looks. Find funny, customer service focused, intelligent folks that like to think for themselves and treat every one of your customers like they were their elderly grandmother.

You find those and you'll succeed quite easily (keeping in mind you P/L is under control).

If you don't care about how successful you are - hire the one with the best looking face and biggest tits. Hair can be dyed!
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Yeah Personalities is where it is at. I noticed that what I am up competition against ( starbucks and Blends ) Have been hiring cheap labour and that is it.

From speaking to the people in the area that they liked it when there are hot ladies behind the bar. I mean who does not like a hot lady Men, women, gays, lesbo's all enjoy looking at a hot women. Only gays and Women like looking at guys.

Personalities it is.
 
RedFireGreg said:
Only gays and Women like looking at guys.
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Very true. However, realize that gays and women are exactly the type of customer that opts for the 4$+ latte with caramel as opposed to guys, who usually just get a medium paradiso and call it a day.

I used to work in a coffee shop long ago (i'm in North York, similar demographics to Van city). The girl I worked with was super hot, she'd get epic tips from random men, but the tips did not go to the cafe's profits so it didn't matter.

Get a mix of both, just don't hire any assholes. I would hire white guys + asian girls. White guys are best at calming down irate immigrants, and asian girls make sure that no one steals from your register.

Make sure your people are confident, friendly and extroverted. If you want to rack up massive profits, tell your employees to be brave about recommending all the other stuff, like gift/loyalty cards, croissants and good old cake on the side.

Good luck, it's going to be tough but rewarding!
 
NickA said:
Very true. However, realize that gays and women are exactly the type of customer that opts for the 4$+ latte with caramel as opposed to guys, who usually just get a medium paradiso and call it a day.

I used to work in a coffee shop long ago (i'm in North York, similar demographics to Van city). The girl I worked with was super hot, she'd get epic tips from random men, but the tips did not go to the cafe's profits so it didn't matter.

Get a mix of both, just don't hire any assholes. I would hire white guys + asian girls. White guys are best at calming down irate immigrants, and asian girls make sure that no one steals from your register.

Make sure your people are confident, friendly and extroverted. If you want to rack up massive profits, tell your employees to be brave about recommending all the other stuff, like gift/loyalty cards, croissants and good old cake on the side.

Good luck, it's going to be tough but rewarding!
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Nice, how did you like working in one? I am going to do a little bit of that at the start. My place is located on Denman near Robson and in an area which fits the 4$ - 5$ latte's.

On hiring the Asians I never though of that aspect which I will agree with you on that one.

The place is surrounded by Asian restaurants, Korean, Japenese, Pho, Sushi, Chinese Diner, Thai noodle, Which I will say the desert of choice for asian is Gelato which I also happen to be making in the store.

Just sucks already over my budget by 20k and will prob go over another 30k in the next 2 weeks. Need to get it up and running and see that cash flow.
 
RedFireGreg said:
Nice, how did you like working in one? I am going to do a little bit of that at the start. My place is located on Denman near Robson and in an area which fits the 4$ - 5$ latte's.

On hiring the Asians I never though of that aspect which I will agree with you on that one.

The place is surrounded by Asian restaurants, Korean, Japenese, Pho, Sushi, Chinese Diner, Thai noodle, Which I will say the desert of choice for asian is Gelato which I also happen to be making in the store.

Just sucks already over my budget by 20k and will prob go over another 30k in the next 2 weeks. Need to get it up and running and see that cash flow.
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Well I've had quite a few jobs before becoming self employed with IM, ranging from web startup to recruitment to sales. Coffee shop was my favorite - it was minimum wage, but I met quite a lot of girls while working there. Scratch that, I met a TON of chicks. In fact, after my 4 month stint at the coffee shop, I realized my "game" had probably improved 100-fold as I must have practiced 1000+ ice-breakers.

The most popular choices for desserts were muffins, biscotti, cakes. Italian soda was very popular among Koreans, and it's probably the biggest cash cow (I could be wrong, but its literally 5 seconds of prep of syrup + carbonated water).
 
Yeah The mark up is better the booze. The espresso based drinks that is.

$4.50 latte will cost me 50 cents add another 20 cents for the cup/lid/sugar

The mark up for Gelato is also massive, 80% of the cost is profit from looking at my numbers so far.
 
NickA said:
yep. that was the elephant in the room haha, if i was going for pure profit i'd do up-scale bubble tea in vancouver.
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And compete with the 6000 other bbt places?

Including the one in Richmond where the girls dress up in sexy costumes?
 
Both women and men prefer hot chicks. This is marketing 101. Also expect so much drama you want to kill yourself. Though you probably can't have sex with them which is an issue.
 
You should have made it so people can only select one option. My option was really any hot female, but I felt like I should just choose one so I chose hot asians. Oh yes, a hot asian serving me coffee in the morning would make the start of my day a good day, every morning.

Edit: Or this:
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