Job description
The Steel Penny is looking for experienced baristas to join our team. You must have prior barista experienced and capable of working in a fast paced environment. This barista position requires a creative mindset, friendliness, great customer service, and precise attention to sanitation. The Steel Penny Cafe is growing immensely with handcrafted beverages, Detroit Style Pizzas, hand tossed pizza, sandwiches, salads, and an extensive and unique wine and beer list.
Descriptive Summary
- Our ideal candidate is customer focused, attentive, ambitious, fun, and hard-working
- Prepare and serve our guests handcrafted beverages keeping quality at its highest.
- Surround yourself with the greatest team and most happy customers anywhere.
- Be part of a challenging but fun work environment.
- Must have a genuine passion for coffee, food, hospitality, and sustainability.
- Experience is a must.
Core Functions
- Smile and welcome customers in a courteous and friendly manner
- Answer guest questions regarding coffee blends, preparation, and product freshness.
- Weigh, grind and pack coffee per customers’ orders according to Steel Penny standard guidelines
- Suggest, sell and serve baked goods and miscellaneous food items to guests
- Maintain efficient and friendly service
- Restock product and supplies when necessary
- Routinely clean the countertop area, floor, windows, grinders, ice machine, ice-cream machine and take out trash
- Assist in the ordering of supplies on a weekly basis
- Report potential safety hazards to the Chef/Manager on Duty
- Report all employee accidents to the Chef/Manager on Duty
- Inform the Chef/Manager on Duty of any operational inconsistencies
- Perform daily cash reconciliation
- Provide 1 to 1 service to all customers; from hello to goodbye
- Follow Steel Penny Cafe standards everyday
- Develop and maintain a knowledge base of the evolving products and services
- Memorize recipes for multiple specialty coffee beverages and seasonal offerings
- Maintain and operated espresso machines, blenders, commercial coffee brewers, coffee pots and other equipment
Job Qualifications:
- Must be passionate about taking care of customers and making them happy
- Contribute daily to the Steel Penny team
- Get to know, support, and care for your Steel Penny family.
- Enjoy working in a fun, yet demanding and fast paced environment
- To succeed, we feel you will need to have a great attitude and lots of energy.
- May work special events, as needed
- Maintains positive company morale and professional attitude
- Excellent verbal and written skills
- Well-organized and detail-oriented
- Regularly required to stand, walk, talk and hear
- Regularly required to handle food and hot beverages
Physical Demands:
- ∙ Regularly required to lift and/or move items up to 35 pounds.
Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home at the Steel Penny Cafe.
Job Type: Part-time
Pay: Up to $20.00 per hour
Work Location: In person
