Food Prep, Part Time

Position Overview

The position involves ensuring accurate and attractive merchandise display, maintaining inventory, providing excellent customer service, and maintaining a safe and clean work environment in a retail store setting.

Key Responsibilities

• Comply with company guidelines for maximizing sales, profitability, and customer service by ensuring accurate grocery deliveries, stocking, attractive displays, and correct pricing.
• Complete build-to's for ordering/purchasing merchandise.
• Maintain inventory by checking in deliveries, pricing items, and stocking merchandise according to schematic.
• Validate deliveries by verifying invoices and reviewing discrepancies with the Store Manager.
• Prepare displays by assembling, dating, and price marking in-store displays.
• Rotate food items, monitor quality and freshness measures to protect customers from illness.
• Monitor and maintain food preparation area and display cases to attract and retain customers.
• Assist in training new associates, emphasizing excellent customer service.
• Monitor and organize inventory to prevent being out of stock on items customers want to purchase.
• Provide prompt, courteous, friendly, and attentive customer service.
• Resolve or assist in resolving routine customer concerns within established guidelines.
• Prepare and serve quality food and beverages to satisfy customer needs.
• Maintain a safe and clean work environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations, including sweeping, mopping, dusting, washing surfaces, picking up trash, and inspecting facilities and equipment.
• Clean, sanitize, and maintain food service equipment to protect customers from illness.
• Attend job-related meetings (may be required to work irregular hours).
• Maintain interdepartmental workflow by fostering a spirit of cooperation.
• Comply with company policies and procedures.
• Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
• Perform all duties with minimal supervision.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Store Manager.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum age of 18 years old.
• Ability to work as scheduled, including arriving to work on time.
• Ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand.
• Ability to perform the essential duties and physical functions described.
• Ability to work in the described conditions.

Preferred Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED.
• Experience in retail sales.
• Ability to perform the four basic arithmetic operations (add, subtract, multiply, and divide).

Physical Requirements

• Ability to be exposed to cold or warm temperature extremes, performing occasional work in a walk-in cooler and/or freezer and outdoors.
• Ability to occasionally lift and/or carry up to 30 pounds from ground to overhead (e.g., assisting in stocking/maintaining inventory levels).
• Ability to occasionally lift and/or carry up to 50 pounds from ground to waist (e.g., to replenish fountain syrups).
• Ability to grasp, reach, and manipulate objects with hands for entire shift (requiring eye-hand coordination).
• Ability to push/pull with arms up to a force of 20 pounds (e.g., utilizing a hand-truck).
• Able to reach overhead for objects.
• Ability to bend and twist at waist.
• Ability to communicate orally.
• Ability to operate a cash register and/or computer keyboard.
• Ability to stoop, kneel, squat, bend, push, and pull.
• Ability to work alone.
• Be exposed to occasional noise.
• Ability to stand and/or walk for an entire shift.
• May require climbing a ladder to store and retrieve materials or place and remove signs.

Work Environment

• Perform approximately 95% of all work indoors, but will