barista
[buh-ris-tuh -ree-stuh; Italian bah-rees-tah]
- a person who is specially trained in the making and serving of coffee drinks, as in a coffee bar.
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Origin of barista
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Your HR person is as likely to be as pierced as your barista.
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October 30, 2014
“We were recently in a coffee shop and the barista said they recognized us,” he says.
So does the barista at Starbucks, and the checkout clerk at Whole Foods.
At Glassdoor.com, the employee-review site, workers noted that “barista” jobs at Cosi pay between $8 and $10 an hour.
A Starbucks barista was fired after a song he wrote ranting about the chain went viral.
barista
- a person who makes and serves coffee in a coffee bar
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Word Origin
C20: Italian: literally, bartender
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Word Origin and History for barista
n.
"bartender in a coffee shop," as a purely English word in use by 1992, from Italian, where it is said to derive ultimately from the English bar (n.2), as borrowed into Italian. The word is of generic gender and may be applied with equal accuracy to women and men (it is said that the typical barista in Italy is a man).
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