Seasonal Culinary Assistants

Stew Leonards • Clifton, NJ

7d • Onsite

About The Position

The Culinary Assistant supports food preparation, cooking, and customer service, with duties focused on the salad bar. The role includes setting up and maintaining the buffet, ensuring food is properly labeled, replenishing and rotating items, stocking hot- and cold-bar supplies, monitoring and documenting food temperatures, and packaging finished products. The assistant must follow health, sanitation, and safety regulations and may perform other assigned duties.

This seasonal hourly position pays $17.50 per hour and runs until the end of December. Applicants must be at least 18 years old and have a high school diploma or equivalent. Two weeks of training is provided. The role involves frequent walking, standing, and reaching, as well as occasional pulling, pushing, squatting, and lifting up to 50 pounds. It also involves frequent exposure to grease, oil, and extreme non-weather-related heat, and occasional exposure to smoke, noise, and weather.

Team members are expected to deliver friendly customer service, collaborate with colleagues, help maintain store efficiency, and represent the store positively. The employer highlights a family-oriented environment, opportunities for career growth, holiday pay, and access to Dayforce Wallet for requesting earned pay before payday at no cost. The position may start as soon as one week after applying.

Requirements

• Must be at least 18 years old.
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Safely use and operate knives, knife sharpeners, scalers, scales, and wrapping machines.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Good oral communication skills.
• Great work ethic.
• Problem-solving ability.
• Self-motivation.
• Flexibility.
• Honesty.

Responsibilities

• Set up the buffet according to established standards.
• Ensure buffet food items have proper signage.
• Refill and rotate buffet food 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 and offer assistance where needed.
• Help improve and maintain store efficiency.
• Represent the store positively 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