Seasonal Culinary Assistants

Stew Leonard's • Clifton, NJ

11d

About The Position

Stew Leonard’s is hiring a seasonal Culinary Assistant for its Salad Bar. The role involves food preparation, cooking, and customer service, including setting up and maintaining buffet displays, packaging finished products, and following health, sanitation, and safety regulations. The season runs until the end of December. The position is seasonal hourly, pays $17.50 per hour, and includes two weeks of training. Applicants must be at least 18 years old.

Requirements

• Must be at least 18 years old.
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Safely use or operate knives, knife sharpeners, scalers, scales, and wrapping machines.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Good oral communication skills.
• Great work ethic.
• Problem-solving ability.
• Self-motivated.
• Flexible.
• Honest.
• Able to meet the role’s physical demands, including frequent walking, standing, and reaching; occasional pulling, pushing, squatting, and lifting up to 50 pounds.
• Able to work with frequent exposure to grease, oil, and extreme non-weather-related heat, and occasional exposure to smoke, noise, and weather.

Responsibilities

• Set up the buffet according to established standards.
• Ensure buffet food items are properly labeled with signage.
• Refill and rotate food on the buffet as needed.
• Wipe down and clean the buffet as needed.
• Stock supplies for the hot and cold bar.
• Check food temperatures every two hours and document them in a temperature log.
• Maintain, fill, and rotate products on display while monitoring dates.
• Package finished products.
• Follow health, sanitation, and safety regulations.
• Assist with other duties as assigned.
• Greet customers with a friendly smile and positive attitude.
• Collaborate with team members to support smooth store operations.
• Help improve and maintain store efficiency.
• Represent the store’s S.T.E.W. values in interactions with customers and team members.

Benefits

• Holiday pay.
• Dayforce Wallet access to request earned pay as it is earned at no cost.
• Career opportunity and growth; the posting states that over 80% of managers have been promoted from within.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED