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Culinary Assistant

$17.5 - $18 per hour

Stew Leonard's Farm Fresh Food

Culinary Assistant

Part Time Hourly Estimated pay range $17.50 -- $18.00 depending on qualifications and experience

Must be at least 18 years and older

Position Description:

As a Culinary Assistant, you will perform various tasks relating to food preparation, cooking, and customer service.

Your day-to-day:

  • Set up buffet according to established standards
  • Ensure proper signage of buffet food items
  • Refill and rotate food on buffet when required
  • Wipe down and clean buffet, as needed
  • Stock supplies for the hot and cold bar
  • Check food temperature every two hours and document in temperate log
  • Maintaining, filling and rotating products on display, being mindful of dates
  • Package finished products
  • Adhere to all health, sanitation, and safety regulations
  • Assist in other duties, as assigned

Qualifications:

  • 18 years of age or older
  • High school diploma or equivalent
  • 2 weeks of training
  • Safely use/operate knives, knife sharpeners, scalers, scales, and wrapping machines
  • Excellent customer service
  • Good oral communication skills

What you bring to the team:

  • Great work ethic
  • Problem solver
  • Self-motivator
  • Flexible
  • Honest

Working Conditions:

  • This position requires frequent walking, standing, reaching, and occasional pulling, pushing, squatting, and lifting with a maximum of 50lbs
  • This position requires frequent exposure to grease, oil, and extreme heat (non-weather related) and occasional exposure to smoke, noise, and weather

Satisfy:

  • Greet customers with a friendly smile and positive attitude, ensuring that each customer feels welcome and appreciated.

Teamwork:

  • Collaborate with team members to ensure the smooth operation of the store, offering assistance and support where needed.

Excellence:

  • Improve and maintain the efficiency of the store in order to reach success.

Wow:

  • Be a positive ambassador for the store, representing our S.T.E.W. values in all interactions with customers and team members. You are the biggest WOW!

Why you'll love working here!

Family Oriented: We respect the personal balance between work and family with career opportunity and growth- over 80% of our managers have been promoted from within.

Benefits: 401 K plan for FT & PT team members, family & personal time off, sick time off, annual performance review, commuter assistance. profit sharing!

Environment: Have you seen the Avocado Girls? Chiquita Banana? Or the singing Parrot?

Pay Day: We're thrilled to offer our Team Members Sunday premium pay, Holiday pay

Dayforce Wallet a new way to get paid. Say bye-bye to pay day and hello to pay your way. Get your pay as soon as you earn it, at no cost to you It's your money, why should you have to wait? Request your pay as you earn it.

We take pride in the power of diversity, inclusion, and being socially responsible to the communities which we live and do business

Apply today and start as soon as 1 week!

Stew Leonard's is an equal opportunity at will employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of age, race, religion, color, disability, sex, sexual orientation or national origin.

Stew Leonard's Farm Fresh Food
Vacancy posted 3 days ago
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