Looking for friendly folks available 4-5 days a week with Saturday and Sunday availability required. If you have Barista and Kitchen crossover skills with at least 1 year of experience in a cafe/kitchen we'd love to hear from you!
We ask that any successful interviews come in for a paid trial shift. We have a close knit friendly team and we value people with positive attitudes and helpful tendencies.
Nelson the Seagull Cafe is a Sourdough Bakery and Cafe with a food menu based around our house made sourdough bread. Our unique +100 year old space is located in historic Gastown, Vancouver. We are open 7 days a week (8am-4pm) and have been open since 2011. Take a look at our instagram @nelsontheseagull to see what we're up to!
POSITION DUTIES INCLUDE:
- Following our recipes to prepare drinks and cook our all day menu
- Holding a high cupping/plating standard for every order made to ensure consistency
- Opening and Closing shifts, rotating based on schedule needs
- Completing daily task lists and restocking needed items
- Keeping your working environment and the cafe clean during busy and slow times (wiping tables and counters, collecting dishes, sweeping/moping/vacuuming messes, cleaning washrooms, etc.)
- Staying self motivated to keep busy with tasks even when there are no orders to make
- Keeping our cases/shelves full with baked goods and retail products throughout the day
- Helping to ensure our wholesale orders are ready to go based on customers needs
- Supporting your coworkers when needed
- Important: Once you're fully trained you must be willing to support your fellow team members in any role to help cover breaks or ensure customers are getting their orders in a timely manner. You must be comfortable and willing to take customer orders + handle cash/card payments through our Square system during team break times when needed.
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
- Availability on Saturday AND Sunday is a must
- Food Safe Level 1
- At least 1 year experience in a cafe barista/cooking in a restaurant
- Willing to learn and implement new offerings
- Food quality control, following a FIFO system
- Comfortable speaking on the phone to suppliers or customers
- Cross over skills (cash handling, barista, kitchen experience)
- Unwavering ability to be kind and professional with your fellow team members and customers, especially during busy and stressful moments.
- Helping to uphold any cleaning tasks + safety rules in place
JOB PERKS:
- Evenly split tips based on hours worked, paid weekly
- Free coffee/tea/sourdough privileges during your shifts
- Staff discounts on food, retail items and grocery items
- Extended Health Benefits for Full Time employees (after 3 months)
- Work in a beautiful heritage building and neighbourhood
- Good tunes + Kind people!
GOOD TO KNOW:
- Shifts could start as early as 7:30am
- Shifts could end as late as 5pm
- Our open hours are 8am-4pm every day.
- We ask any potential new team member to come in for a paid trial shift, this will allow you decide if you think we're a good fit and allows our team decide if we think you're a good fit too.
- Easy skytrain (Waterfront or Chinatown Station - Canada Line) and bus routes to get to and from work
We have a close knit friendly team and we value people with positive attitudes and helpful tendencies.
Priority given to those with Kitchen and Barista cross over skills. Saturday and Sunday availability is required for this position.
If we sound like a good fit please apply via e-mail with a quick blurb about yourself, experience and availability. Please ATTACH YOUR RESUME. :)
We look forward to meeting you!
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