Learning about safety and procedures also stood out in Rouda's mind "The most important thing is safety. I remember the safety." Rouda then quickly added that she learned more than safety procedures in the coffee shop. "I remember the muffins, [and] reading." She then added that she also learned how to prepare for a job interview: "How to talk, not to be nervous, [and] calm down." She learned to use the coffee machine and to serve customers "the polite way". She also talked about the importance of learning to be "particular", and compared the way she approached a task at home with the way she has learned to do a similar task in the coffee shop. "At home," she said, "your mind knows everything. Everyday, what you are doing, you know." The coffee shop, in contrast is very different.

Sugar we know, flour we know. It's important, You have to be particular [about] how you use [them]. You have to know [and be] careful because you never know if you get the job and you have to know metric. [At home] everything you know. When you [are] making something, cooking something. [at] home, it's not important.

She said the activities that are done in the coffee shop, such as metric measurement, and careful reading, may be similar to the activities that are done at a job. She felt it was important to learn these things in order to prepare for work.

If you know or not, they [will] tell you, 'Follow that paper.' If you don't know, you [are] lost. You don't know nothing. You cannot ask people [who are] working; they are concentrating on something else. 'Excuse me, can you help me?' That means you don't know. You [have to] be ready.

Stacey expressed similar opinions as Rouda. "When you are going on [a] job, you have to know everything they teach or you [are] lost. Otherwise, you need help or something." Like Hannah and Rouda, Stacey said she learned to read and use recipes. Even though she enjoyed cooking and learned to prepare different cultural foods, she said she didn't understand how to use recipes before she participated in the coffee shop. She explained that she used to read them but did not actually use them when preparing food. Now she explained, "I like to read the recipe—how to measure, what to put, and how many. I'm glad that now I understand." She also talked about learning to be more organized and methodical when she prepared food. She then added that it has helped her to understand text better when she is actually using the text, like reading the recipe or following directions for making coffee. Fran aptly described the learning in the coffee shop: "[The students] are very eager to be in [the coffee shop] and certainly seem to know what they are doing. They have a clear sense of direction that they brought with themselves."