EditorialChelsea Cadle, a barista at Biggby Coffee, handles drive-through orders at the location in Sterling Heights, Mich., Sept. 29, 2022. (Sarah Rice/The New York Times)
EditorialJaz Brisack, a Rhodes scholar and a barista who helped unionize Starbucks workers, at her home in Buffalo, N.Y., Feb. 26, 2022. (Brendan Bannon/The New York Times)
EditorialJaz Brisack, a Rhodes scholar and a barista, on her way to work at the Starbucks where she helped unionize workers, in Buffalo, N.Y., Feb. 26, 2022. (Brendan Bannon/The New York Times)
EditorialJaz Brisack, a Rhodes scholar and a barista, on her way to work at the Starbucks where she helped unionize workers, in Buffalo, N.Y., Feb. 26, 2022. (Brendan Bannon/The New York Times)
EditorialThe head barista at Silingan Coffee, Sharon Angeles, who tells customers that care to listen that President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on “is a war on the poor, and not on drugs,” in Quezon City, Philippines, March 24, 2022. (Hannah Reyes Morales/The New York Times)
EditorialJose Ortega runs the barista station at Chaumont Bakery in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Sunday, July 18, 2021. (Morgan Lieberman/The New York Times)
EditorialSherman James, who has been a barista at Qathra Café since 2015, and became an owner in 2016, prepares a coffee in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, on March 8, 2021. (Sasha Arutyunova/The New York Times)
EditorialA barista on the job in Kansas City, Mo., at a coffee spot that had laid off much of its staff early in the pandemic, on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020. (Christopher Smith/The New York Times)
EditorialMatthew Wilson, in Philadelphia, May 27, 2020, lost his barista job in Philadelphia, then was turned down for unemployment benefits because he had been working in the state for less than a year. (Hannah Yoon/The New York Times)
EditorialA barista maintains as much distance from customers as possible while delivering drinks a police officer, and medical personnel in New York, Wednesday, April 8, 2020. (James Estrin/The New York Times)