barista

noun

1. A person who prepares coffee in a coffee shop for customers.

   “"From behind the counter of this provincial train station coffee shop, Joanna was barista and unofficial shrink to wildly varied London-bound travellers," writes author Laline Paull. Confessions of a Barista on Platform 1 was published on February 9 by The Firle Press [...].”

verb

1. To work as a barista.

   “I helped out in the business while I was at school—we all did, whether it was washing up or baristaing or clearing the tables for Dad and washing them down when the shop closed—but this one night I was meant to be working a late shift when I had a chance to play in a concert. […] Are you still OK for another half-hour lesson on baristaing, tonight? […] ‘It’s advanced baristaing—an extra,’ he admitted.”

   “Nevertheless, we’ll both be done with barista-ing soon.”

   “We hadn’t exchanged a word since our stupid tiff at TSB—we’d just baristaed side by side in silence, which isn’t easy when your workspace is the size of a broom closet.”

   “If pure chance guided me to glory in the heady world of competitive barista-ing, the rewards came to be measured in frustration.”

   “But it was crappy of me to steal instead of bartending or barista-ing or temping or something.”