Kitchen Assistant
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BRATTLEBORO FOOD COOP
VT
Summary
The Kitchen Assistant is responsible for maintaining a clean and sanitary work environment while assisting with food preparation and meal service. They also handle equipment safely, manage waste removal, and provide courteous customer service.
Job Description
Description
- Purpose: The Kitchen Assistant is responsible for maintaining a clean work environment and assisting with general food preparation.
- Status: Reports to Food Services Director
- Customer Service:
- Assists customers with questions in a prompt and courteous manner
- Provide attentive and courteous customer service
- Maintain a polite, friendly and helpful attitude towards internal and external customers
- Product Knowledge:
- Knowledgeable about all products. Continues to learn about new products. Answers questions accurately
- Product Presentation and Quality:
- Ensure quality food preparation, presentation and execution
- Safety:
- Handles all equipment in a safe manner
- Alert to unsafe equipment and removes any equipment that is unsafe from usage
- Teamwork:
- Ensures department teamwork through trust and communication
- Accountability:
- Accepts responsibility for personal decisions and actions. Exemplifies honesty, integrity and ethics
- Contributes constructively to the morale of the department
- Shows initiative in solving issues and achieving the departmental goals
- Job Specific Functions:
- Adhere to established safety and sanitation standards
- Assist in receiving and stocking of supplies
- Daily dishwashing, mopping, sweeping, and other cleaning tasks
- Assist in food preparation as needed
- Assist as directed in facilitating meal service, and event set up and breakdown as needed
- Removal of recycling/compost/garbage to the designated areas throughout the day
- Accurately inputting shrink data as needed
- Maintaining clean and orderly work stations
- Adhering to the site code of conduct as defined during training
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Self-motivated, organized, responsible, flexible
- Effective communication skills
- Ability to lift 50 pounds
- Ability to understand and follow directions
- Ability to understand and meet standards for health and safety
- Ability to remain alert and focused in an environment that is noisy and fast-paced
- Ability to work effectively within a team
- Detail-oriented and thorough
At Brattleboro Food Co-op, we do not just accept difference — we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, and our community. Brattleboro Food Co-op is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
The Brattleboro Food Co-Op is a Cooperative food store located at 2 Main St,
in the heart of Brattleboro, Vermont. The Brattleboro Food Co-op was formed in 1975 as a small buying club. Today, the Co-op is a 14,580 square foot natural foods market and deli on the ground floor of a four-story building that also includes Co-op offices, a commissary kitchen, a cooking classroom, and 24 apartments. The current store opened for business in June of 2012. T We are located in southeastern Vermont, just over the Massachusetts and New Hampshire borders. Our community offers beautiful Vermont countryside, a lively cultural scene, and easy access to skiing, hiking and other outdoor activities.
The Brattleboro Food Co-op is community-owned, with over 8000 active shareholders. The Brattleboro Food Co-op exists to meet it's shareholders collective needs for:
1) Reasonably priced food and products with an emphasis on healthy, locally grown, organic and fairly traded goods.
2) A welcoming community marketplace.
3) A workplace community where cooperative values are modeled.
4) A regenerative business that has a net positive environmental impact.
5) A sustainable local economy.
6) Relevant information about food and related products, the environment, and the Cooperative Values and Principles.
7) Reasonable access to participation in the cooperative.
Founded
1975
Company size
51-200 employees
Industry
Food and Beverage Services
Org type
Public Company
Headquarters
Brattleboro, Vermont
The Brattleboro Food Co-Op is a Cooperative food store located at 2 Main St,
in the heart of Brattleboro, Vermont. The Brattleboro Food Co-op was formed in 1975 as a small buying club. Today, the Co-op is a 14,580 square foot natural foods market and deli on the ground floor of a four-story building that also includes Co-op offices, a commissary kitchen, a cooking classroom, and 24 apartments. The current store opened for business in June of 2012. T We are located in southeastern Vermont, just over the Massachusetts and New Hampshire borders. Our community offers beautiful Vermont countryside, a lively cultural scene, and easy access to skiing, hiking and other outdoor activities.
The Brattleboro Food Co-op is community-owned, with over 8000 active shareholders. The Brattleboro Food Co-op exists to meet it's shareholders collective needs for:
1) Reasonably priced food and products with an emphasis on healthy, locally grown, organic and fairly traded goods.
2) A welcoming community marketplace.
3) A workplace community where cooperative values are modeled.
4) A regenerative business that has a net positive environmental impact.
5) A sustainable local economy.
6) Relevant information about food and related products, the environment, and the Cooperative Values and Principles.
7) Reasonable access to participation in the cooperative.
Founded
1975
Company size
51-200 employees
Industry
Food and Beverage Services
Org type
Public Company
Headquarters
Brattleboro, Vermont
