Job Description

Position Overview

Café team members perform several job duties to include taking orders; preparing menu items including soups, salads, sandwiches, and drinks while providing excellent customer service. We prepare real food by hand every day in our café.

What we’re looking for:
• Someone with a friendly, enthusiastic attitude
• Someone that loves to help and serve others (both customers and team members)
• Someone ready to learn how to cook

Essential Job Functions:
Cooks food and prepares drinks according to menus and recipes
• Understand and adhere to all recipes.
• Remain alert to all team members and helps team out when needed. 
• Consult daily menus and prep sheets to determine which food will be cooked for the day.
• Use all kitchen equipment appropriately.

Organizes food preparation
• Ensure that food and drinks are ready at the proper time and temperature.
• Organize food and drinks to be served. 

Follows Food Code standards for preparing, handling, serving and storing food
• Check and record temperatures of food to ensure that it is served at correct temperatures.
• Cool food according to the Kansas Food Code. 
• Prepare, cook and store food under appropriate temperatures and with safe food handling techniques.
• Cook food and prepare drinks in a manner to conserve nutritive value, flavor, appearance and texture.

Uses food and supplies appropriately to maintain budget
• Understand and follow food portion controls.
• Avoid wasting food or supplies 
• Clean in assigned areas.
• Keep all kitchen equipment clean and in good working order.

Cleans and sanitizes food preparation areas
• Help wash dishes and put them away.
• Complete cleaning schedules.
• Use good sanitation practices.

Requirements:
• You have to be at least 16 years old to work at Hesston Bakery & Café 
• You must be able to operate a computer and handle basic cash transactions
• You need to have a positive attitude and provide great customer service
• You must be responsible, accountable, dependable and flexible
• Must enjoy working with the elderly and be able to understand their needs
• Must be able to be organized, completing multiple task in a period of time
• Must be able to speak and write English
• Spend most of the day walking, standing, stooping, or bending and be able to lift up to 50 pounds