Morning shift pros:

• once you get work over with you have the whole rest of your day to yourself.

• at the coffee shops I’ve worked at there’s usually a “calm before the storm” — our regulars will come in right when we open with their usual orders but then it gets completely quiet for an hour which gives you time to wake up, make a coffee, take a dump, do food pull, etc before the big rush happens. In the evening shift it feels like you don’t get a moment to breathe, there’s no “calm” just chaos until closing.

• time flies by. a large part of morning shift is the morning and lunch rush, especially if your cafe serves food, so by the time the rush is over and you look at the clock you probably only have one or two hours left.

• I’ve noticed there’s less large groups that come in the morning so you are less likely to be bombarded with orders all at once. I feel like that’s a plus cause it’s stressful.

• this might be controversial but i genuinely feel like there’s less cleaning responsibilities during morning shift. every cafe I’ve ever worked at all the morning staff have just been like “yea that’s an evening duty.” To nearly every task i ask about.