Describe your cafe standards. Makeform creates a structured barista evaluation form with skill ratings, coaching notes, and follow-up goals.
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Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a prompt, tailor it to your cafe, or send it to the builder. The structure is an example, not a completed review.
Audience
Cafe managers reviewing experienced baristas
Format
Scored review with manager notes and goals
Prompt size
297 chars
Example form structure
Scored review with manager notes and goals
Barista, reviewer, location, and review period
Beverage quality and technical skills
Service, teamwork, and reliability
Evidence and coaching priorities
Goals and follow-up date
Suggested routing tags
Meets standard
Coaching needed
Follow-up scheduled
Define ratings through observable behavior, such as follows the recipe independently and serves within the cafe's target window.
Step 1
Observe
capture examples from real cafe work
Step 2
Rate
apply one anchored scale to each skill
Step 3
Coach
turn gaps into specific practice actions
Step 4
Follow up
revisit goals on an assigned date
Consistent cafe reviews
Connect scores to visible work: recipe execution, customer handoff, station habits, reliability, and response to coaching.
Evaluate the recipes, service sequence, cleaning schedule, and role expectations used at your location.
Define scores as needs prompting, performs independently, or can coach a peer.
Assign a practice action, owner, success measure, and follow-up date.
Use the right review moment
Keep core standards consistent, then adjust evidence and next steps for the review's purpose.
Track introduced skills, independent work, and what the trainer should revisit.
Record brief examples during an opening, rush, or close.
Review beverage execution, service, teamwork, reliability, and earlier goals.
Assess operational judgment and peer coaching, then note duties needing practice.
Evaluation workflow
Start with your standards, then keep ratings, evidence, and follow-up actions together.
Name the role, drink standards, service expectations, station duties, and review cadence.
Use one rating vocabulary. Request examples for high or low ratings and allow not observed.
Discuss evidence, record employee comments, and agree on a manageable next action.
Route the submission, then use its owner and date to check progress later.
Form vs notes vs generic review
A tailored form connects repeatable criteria to cafe work and next actions.
Field guide
Separate technical execution, service, operations, and development so ratings lead to useful coaching.
Review context
Record enough context to interpret whether this is a recurring review or one coached-station check.
Beverage execution
Break beverage quality into visible skills rather than one coffee-knowledge score.
Guest experience
Divide service into greeting, order clarification, allergen communication, handoff, and guest recovery.
Station operations
Rate setup, restocking, sanitation, and closing routines assigned to the role.
Teamwork & reliability
Use work examples for teamwork, attendance, and coachability, especially for high or low scores.
Development plan
Record the practice activity, success measure, support person, and review date.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for cafe managers building training checks and recurring performance reviews.
A barista evaluation form records beverage skills, service, station operations, teamwork, reliability, and development. Managers can use repeatable criteria, observed examples, coaching actions, employee comments, and follow-up dates for training checks or recurring reviews.
Include the barista, reviewer, location, period, and stations observed. Cover beverage execution, service, operations, teamwork, and reliability. Add rating definitions, not observed, evidence, strengths, coaching priorities, an action owner, and a follow-up date.
Use one behaviorally anchored scale, such as needs coaching, performs with prompts, performs independently, and can coach others. Add cafe-specific examples, request notes for high or low ratings, and allow not observed so managers do not guess.
Yes. Use training milestones and choices such as not introduced, practicing, independent, or coaching needed. Include stations observed, skills to practice, assigned trainer, and target date. A conditional note can explain any coaching-needed selection.
Choose a cadence that fits your operation. New hires may need milestone checks; experienced baristas may have periodic reviews plus brief coaching after observations. Address urgent issues promptly instead of waiting for a formal review.
Yes. Add employee comments or send a self-evaluation first. Ask about accomplishments, skills to strengthen, support needed, and examples to consider. Label manager observations and employee reflections separately.
Yes. Makeform offers unlimited free forms and responses, so you can generate, edit, publish, and reuse the form without a response cap. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Completed forms arrive with Makeform submissions and can route to Google Sheets, Slack, or Zapier. Limit access to people who need employee-review information, and label records by location, employee, and review period.
Make the next coaching conversation specific.
