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I love it and yes they do give benefits after 20 hours a week averaged (it's 240 a quarter actually and is issued at the end of the quarter. Thus you have to be there for at least most of one quarter first (Next one ends March 31st so I'd do it quickly. To meet quota by March 31st, you'd have to average more than 25/week, otherwise the earliest you'd qualify for health benefits would be June.). Hawaii is monthly-qualifying (80 hours in a month) because I think that may be the law there.)
I have health, vision, dental, short and long term disability, life and supplemental for just under $19/week. (I have no dependents and chose the middle-rate plan. You can choose coverage options: you can get health alone in the cheapest plan for like $8/week with no dependents or Open Choice (the "best" health plan, they pay for everything healthwise pretty much no questions asked) for like $32 with no dependents.)
Other benefits include S.I.P (Stock Investment Plan), Bean Stock (Yearly-issued stock gifts to long-term retail employees), Free Coffee, Employee Discount of 30%, 40% during the holidays, Partner Perks (A discount program for pretty much anything you can think of from gym memberships to fine dining to car repairs to tax prep.), Vacation time after 6 months (it compound-accrues like bank interest for each hour worked up to 40 hours of vacation time...this kind of sucks because it makes it impossible to ever have more than 1 week of vacation time and you'll stop accruing once you have 40 hours of time saved up unless you use some.)
If you want more info, ask to speak to a manager the next time you're in a store and ask for info on "Total Pay" b/c you're thinking of applying.
The catch, the pay stinks. I started at $7.62/hr in CT and make maybe another $25/week in tips. Going rate for a barista in an indie coffeehouse is 2-3x that for take-home $$$ but usually no bennies.
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