noun

• A person whose job involves preparing and serving different types of coffee.

  ‘The barista was busy serving the long queue of caffeine addicts and chatting about the previous night's antics.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘They belly up to the coffee bar and a barista with a padlock through his nose inquires what they want.’
  • ‘How many coffee-chain baristas and sweatshop seamstresses assume that voting for lower taxes will bring them security and prosperity?’
  • ‘His father was a publican (amongst other things) who has run various restaurants in which Nick has taken an active interest, honing his skills as a barista, waiter and short order chef.’
  • ‘She's writing interesting stuff and I LOVE the fact that she overhears some very fascinating conversations in her gig as a coffee barista and shares them on her blog.’
  • ‘I cursed the name of the barista who made my coffee and chastised the cup manufacturer from not making a more efficient system to contain a travelling beverage.’
  • ‘Maybe a big part of your problem is that the only person you talk to during the day is a student barista in a coffee shop.’
  • ‘‘With the coffee bar culture growing in the country, baristas have a major role in bringing awareness about quality coffee among the consuming public,’ is what the organisers feel.’
  • ‘I'm still not sure if this knowledge is a good thing, as all it seems to do is annoy the wait staff and baristas of my local hang outs.’
  • ‘Customers will soon be able to order a cup of ground coffee from an in-house barista.’
  • ‘Australians drink coffee in smaller cups, our baristas tend to swirl the milk a little less, and we have completely different terminology.’
  • ‘Prior to in-store training baristas are schooled in corporate history and the art of coffee tasting and roasting.’
  • ‘Then he skittishly ducked beneath the counter so that when the barista had turned round from the coffee machine she would be greeted with the sight of no-one calling to her.’
  • ‘Would I have known that there was no coffee in my drink if the barista hadn't freely admitted his own mistake?’
  • ‘I went in to get my latte and I guess I must have still been smiling because one of the baristas said, ‘You look happy today.’’
  • ‘Farmers, pickers, processors, importers, shippers, roasters, grocery clerks and baristas on six continents all have a hand in $70 billion of world coffee sales.’
  • ‘Yesterday as I leaned over the counter discussing all this with one of my favorite baristas she said, ‘Is it making you sore?’’
  • ‘As I was getting my latte today I told my baristas about the wild technological ride on which I've traveled these past 48 hours.’
  • ‘So long, hairy-armpitted cute pink-haired tattoo'd baristas of Saturday morning strolls down State Street!’
  • ‘My two favourite morning baristas were both cranky.’