Food Service - Huck's Food Svc Associate

Hucks•Bloomington, IL

About The Position

Every Huck's Market Food Service Associate plays a key role in running the food service area smoothly and effectively. By following company guidelines, Associates help ensure the department stays profitable while delivering high-quality food and customer service. The role includes keeping the food service area ready during service hours, supporting customers and store associates, maintaining food and merchandise inventory, promoting the Huck’s Bucks Loyalty app, and following sanitation and safety procedures. The listed requirements, duties, and responsibilities are not exhaustive; management may revise the job description and assign other tasks as circumstances change.

Responsibilities

Ensure the food service department is open and ready for business during food service hours.
Provide customers with prompt and courteous service and communicate effectively with store associates.
Follow applicable federal, state, and local laws and ordinances related to store operations.
Manage food preparation quantities to reduce waste while maintaining sufficient supply for customers.
Treat associates with dignity and respect; inform the store manager of personnel situations or policy violations that adversely affect store performance.
Assist in training new associates to perform their job duties properly.
Ensure associate shift procedures are followed and maintain a safe shopping and working environment.
Ensure safety rules are followed and protective equipment is used.
Ensure current plan-o-grams are used; communicate special needs or requests to the manager and alert the manager about merchandise ordering to prevent out-of-stocks and maintain inventory as directed.
Promote the Huck’s Bucks Loyalty app, explain its benefits, assist customers with signing up and using discounts and redemptions, and monitor transactions for potential misuse of points or discounts.
Maintain the appearance of food service areas to company standards and keep display cases, glass, and food service areas clean.
Report maintenance problems that cannot be corrected immediately to the store manager.
Follow sanitation procedures and safety policies for ladder use, lifting, and wet-floor signs.
Promptly report accidents to the Store Manager and Corporate office.