Steps for Successful Espresso Café Opening

Manager Action:

  1. Watch Welcome to Virtual Barista
  2. Watch Virtual Barista Setting Up Your Initial Account
  3. Review the WPS Starbucks Espresso & Frappuccino Set up Requirements
  4. Review the WPS Starbucks Operator Brand Toolkit

Barista Action:

  1. Watch Virtual Barista Espresso Beverage Standards
  2. Download & Review WPS Starbucks Barista Guidebook as an additional training resource
  3. Review supporting Product Cards
  4. Take required Barista Training Quiz and review Barista Knowledge Check

WPS Starbucks® Espresso & Frappuccino® Barista Guidebook

Guidebook provides a comprehensive review for Brewed Coffee, Starbucks History, Espresso, Refreshers, Frappuccino® blended beverages, Cold Brew, Cold Foam, Hot Tea, Iced Tea and Matcha beverage programs.

WPS Starbucks Espresso Café Execution 

Information in this section provides requirements for successful WPS Starbucks Espresso Café setup, branding, and barista training.  Follow these steps to ensure successful café openings.  

Beverage Resource Manual

Your complete guide to all approved beverages for your WPS Starbucks Espresso Cafe 

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WPS Beverage Resource Manual

Welcome to Virtual Barista

Virtual Barista (duration 1 minute 18 seconds) provides you with comprehensive modules and stand-alone videos supporting various beverage experiences and resources for your operations. 

Tips for Navigating Virtual Barista:

Modules: Virtual Barista offers a complete training experience or stand-alone videos, which are broken out as specific topics and can be used as a training refresher from the full modules.

Closed Caption: All videos have closed captions in both English and Spanish. Click on the on the CC icon in the video and select your preferred language for video captions.

Chapters: All videos have chapters noted throughout. This allows you to jump to a specific topic within the video. Click on the chapters icon in the video to select the topic and jump to it in the video. This feature is only available in desktop view, not mobile or tablet.

We Proudly Serve Starbucks Espresso Beverages & Support Stand-Alone Training Videos

The videos below contain the same content as the Virtual Barista modules, just broken up in smaller segments based on topics listed.  

 

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Customer Portal Operator Training

(12 mins 51 sec)

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Receiving Your Order

(2 mins 24 sec)

Setting Up Your Hot Bar

(6 mins 14 sec)

Setting Up Your Cold Bar

(10 min 9 sec)

Brewed Coffee Basics

(11 mins 42 sec)

Espresso Basics

(10 mins 24 sec)

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Café Opening

(31 mins 16 sec)

Semi-Automatic Espresso Beverages Basics

(29 mins 38 sec)

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Manual Espresso Hot & Iced Beverage Basics

(23 mins 21 sec)

Teavana® Tea – Hot Bar

(7  mins 32 sec)

Cold Beverage Basics

6 min 58 sec)

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Frappuccino® Blended Beverages Basics

(8 mins 16 sec)

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Café Closing

(11 min 39 sec)

Cold Beverage Basics

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Frappuccino® Blended Beverages

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Beverage Product Cards

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Refreshers® Beverages

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Frappuccino® Blended Beverage

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Teavana® Iced Tea

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Teavana Filterbag Tea®

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Cold Brew Coffee: Toddy

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Cold Brew Coffee: Powder

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Iced Coffee

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Cold Foam Beverages

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Cold Brew Powder Kegerator Product Card

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Cold Brew Coffee: Powder

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Iced Coffee

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Cold Foam Beverages

Test your knowledge

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Required WPS Espresso & Frappuccino® Training Quiz

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WPS Starbucks Espresso & Frappuccino Barista Knowledge Check

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