BARISTA (FULL TIME)

Barista Position at Fresh Ideas

We are hiring immediately for full time BARISTA positions at Park University, located at 8700 Northwest River Park Drive, Parkville, MO 64152. Online applications are accepted only. The full time schedule is Monday through Friday, 7:00 am to 4:00 pm. More details will be provided upon interview. Prior barista experience is required. Pay is based on experience with a fixed rate of $17.00 per hour.

Fresh Ideas Management is a dynamic food service management company that believes good food is a powerful thing. Food brings people together and food creates memories. Fresh Ideas encourages creativity by creating fun working environments for our teams. Our diverse teams enjoy a workplace where creativity, openness, and innovation flow free and new Fresh Ideas are encouraged. Our team-members are excited about creating delicious, unique, and engaging dining experiences for our guests.

Fresh Ideas offers a full benefits package, flexible schedules that respect one of our core values, work life balance, and ongoing training and development opportunities. This, along with our rapid growth, means accelerated promotion opportunities for every motivated Fresh Ideas team member!

Job Summary: Makes and serves coffee/espresso drinks and related food and beverage items. Handles food according to HACCP guidelines and standards for quality food-service operations. Interacts with customers and other employees in a friendly, courteous manner. Essential duties and responsibilities include preparing espresso orders for customers and catering using standard measures and recipes, entering orders accurately into POS device; accepting cash and charge payments, replenishing condiments, beverages, and general supplies while maintaining cleanliness of service area, ensuring proper presentation, portion control, and maintenance of proper serving temperatures; following HACCP standards, maintaining sanitation and orderliness of all equipment, supplies, and utensils, ensuring proper food preparation by using approved recipes and following prescribed production standards, keeping display equipment clean and free of debris during meal service, cleaning equipment and workstation thoroughly before leaving the area for other assignments, greeting customers courteously and interacting in a manner to ensure customer satisfaction, relaying relevant concerns from customers to supervisors, serving customers quickly and efficiently, and preventing delays in serving lines, demonstrating a complete understanding of daily menu items and accurately explaining them to customers, serving as an advocate of selling techniques to the customer by establishing good communication and assisting in the buying decision-making process, ensuring all display foods are merchandised attractively per standards, serving food neatly and attractively per standard, and performing other duties as assigned.