during the week , i work as a barista.
[{"role": "system", "content": "A barista (; ; from the Italian for \"bartender\") is a person, usually a coffeehouse employee, who prepares and serves espresso-based coffee drinks. The word \"barista\" is an Italian word, and in Italy, a barista is a male or female \"bartender\", who typically works behind a counter, serving hot drinks (such as espresso), cold alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, and snacks. The native plural in English is \"baristas\", while in Italian the plural is \"baristi\" for masculine (\"baristi\": \"barmen\", \"bartenders\") or \"bariste\" for feminine (bariste: \"barmaids\"). While the title is not regulated, most coffee shops use the title to describe the preparer of coffee and operator of an espresso machine. Baristas generally operate a commercial espresso machine, and their role is preparing and pulling the shot; the degree to which this is automated or done manually varies significantly, ranging from push-button operation to an involved manual process. Espresso is a notoriously finicky beverage, and good manual espresso making is considered a skilled task. Further, preparation of other beverages, particularly milk-based drinks such as cappuccinos and lattes, but also non-espresso coffee such as drip or press pot, requires additional work and skill for effective frothing, pouring and most often latte art.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "my friend is a barista."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That must mean they are a coffeehouse employee who prepares and serves espresso-based coffee drinks."}, {"role": "user", "content": "yea they work at starbucks"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It's hard to believe that Starbucks has been around since 1971, I thought they were fairly new."}, {"role": "user", "content": "thats still quite new for a billion dollar business"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I suppose that's true, they're certainly expanding quickly, as of 2016 they had 23,768 locations worldwide."}, {"role": "user", "content": "wow thats crazy, its so popular."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "So popular they're considered the main representative of \"second wave coffee\" as it's called."}, {"role": "user", "content": "huh i guess that makes sense."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah, they distinguish themselves from other coffee chains with their improved taste, quality, and customer experience."}]