Barista

Barista Position

Mystic Café isn't your typical restaurant. We offer breakfast, lunch, and dinner throughout the week alongside quality espresso, fine wines, local art, and live music. Our customers enjoy the vintage dining atmosphere with our locally sourced and artisan meals. Mystic's team members are excited to serve our customers, and many of our team members move up to become trainers, supervisors, and even managers.

Mystic Café is currently seeking a motivated barista to join our dynamic professional team. The successful candidate will be outgoing, organized, professional, and have a flexible schedule.

The barista is responsible for fulfilling orders, completing sales transactions, and performing other support functions such as cleaning the food prep area, customer seating, or stock areas; maintaining inventory; and performing all other responsibilities as directed by the business. While we are looking for stellar coffee making experience, we are willing to train someone with exceptional customer service skills.

Happy Day employees are excited to come to work, to learn, and to produce the best experiences possible for our guests. Enjoy the benefits of working for a successful company, with comprehensive training, benefits to qualifying employees including a monthly meal discount card to all Happy Day locations, medical and dental insurance, 401(k) with company match, tuition assistance, and daycare reimbursement, and being a partner to the community.

Responsibilities:

• Prepares espresso orders for customers and catering using standard measures and recipes.
• Enters orders accurately into POS device; accepts cash and charge payments.
• Replenishes condiments, beverages and general supplies while maintaining cleanliness of service area.
• Ensures proper presentation, portion control and maintenance of proper serving temperatures.
• Maintains sanitation and orderliness of all equipment, supplies and utensils.
• Ensures proper food preparation by using approved recipes and following prescribed production standards.
• Keeps display equipment clean and free of debris during meal service.
• Cleans equipment and workstation thoroughly before leaving the area for other assignments.
• Greets customers courteously and interacts in a manner to ensure customer satisfaction. Relays relevant concerns from customers to supervisors.
• Serves customers quickly and efficiently, and prevents delays in serving lines.
• Demonstrates a complete understanding of daily menu items and accurately explains them to customers.
• Serves as an advocate of selling techniques to the customer by establishing good communication and assisting in the buying decision-making process.
• Ensures all display foods are merchandised attractively per standards. Serves food neatly and attractively per standard.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, and Work Environment:

• Demonstrates the ability to interact and communicate effectively and respectfully with the public and coworkers in a friendly, enthusiastic, and outgoing manner.
• Requires the ability to bend, twist, and stand to perform normal job functions.
• Requires the ability to learn and maintain knowledge of our products and procedures.
• Some cash handling and customer service experience preferred.
• Is responsible, reliable, and maintains a professional demeanor.
• Willingness to be cross-trained.
• Commitment to excellence in your job.
• Availability to work in shifts as needed.
• Sunday availability.
• Access to reliable transportation.

If you can see yourself taking on these responsibilities with enthusiasm, apply today!