This is a job for people who love people and love taking care of people.
This job is fast paced, requires the ability to prep significant quantities of food with precision, take inventory, follow clear directions and recipe and be able to support with high speed food build and preparation. Its a job for people that love to work collaboratively to ensure customers are highly satisfied and teammates are supported.
Its high energy, fun, challenging and satisfying.
Our existing team and leadership are positive, hardworking, genuine and love to laugh and have fun while working together. For those with restaurant kitchen background that we bring onboard they are always pleasantly surprised that we focus intently on treating everyone with respect and dignity and this is not your typical high stress kitchen position working for difficult chefs. This is a great job to come have fun, enjoy your work and be rewarded for your creativity
This position can be a gateway position for the right candidate as we are additionally looking for leads and supervisors in the kitchen to support with administrative and purchasing responsibilities alongside menu creation. We are also building staff for a potential second location.
We prepare power bowls, savory bowls, breakfast sandwiches, lunch sandwiches, grilled sandwiches, toasts, oats, smoothies/shakes, acai bowls, hot snacks, etc all of which are highly customizable. We operate a cafe and drive thru so are looking for someone who can prep and execute our menu with a high level of precision, quickly.
Gladly Cafe and Kitchen is an emerging drive thru craft food and coffee concept in the San Diego Market. Built by former baristas/restaurant people who get it, at its core is a desire to deliver great high quality boutique products in the cup and on the plate to our community alongside genuine, real customer care. We are a coffee-bar and kitchen with cafe and Drive Thru. We are a community meeting place. We have a burgeoning art and music scene.
You: smart, fast, experienced as a line cook, cafe cook, prep cook, coffeehouse food position or other relevant food background. You are genuine, taking care of people gets you up in the morning. A great smile. We have a great team and are looking for someone to come make us better!
We are hiring for a FT cooking position. Opportunities exist due to our constantly increasing business.
Prep responsibilities include pre prepping a variety of grilled sandwiches, roasting vegetables, roasting meats, making beverage syrups, beverage sauces, beverage powders, food sauces, mixing powders, slicing meat, fruits and prepping vegetables, pre-prepping baked goods, etc
We typically staff 3-6 in the kitchen. This position requires you to multi-task and work quickly and efficiently and oftentimes independently. This position is available as FT right now.
Required skills:
Multi-task, Team Player, Self Starter, Clean and Organized Worker, Excellent Communicator, Ability to Anticipate and Forecast Supply Needs, Ability to Prepare and Present Food According to Menu Specifications.
If interested please respond with a resume and include a phone number so we can schedule an interview.
Open availability preferred though negotiable for the right candidate.
Responsibilities include but not limited to:
Prep ingredients for our menu
Support in preparing all food items to order to meet Gladly Kitchen standards.
Participate in new menu development.
Maintain the kitchen clean and organized.
Support with opening/closing kitchen responsibilities.
Sharing dishwashing responsibilities
1+ years of previous kitchen prep and food experience is preferred.
Gladly Coffee provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.Gladly Coffee is growing and we are adding additional team members to our food staff. We are a locally owned, independent coffee roaster.
