Health Food Specialist (PT) - Cultured Cafe (New Haven)

 

Full Job Description:

Looking for someone with a passion for health and nutrition. Kitchen experience is a huge plus. Barista experience will be useful as well. You will be crafting health foods to order. Ingredients will have to explained to the customer as to why they are beneficial for them. Customers will have options for additional ingredients which may require some education as to their benefits. If you are very interested in health and love to learn this could be a great opportunity for you. If you often experiment and research for your own healths sake then you might be a good fit. We are a fast growing but young company which will require a wide variety of skills but provide considerable opportunity or growth if it is deserved and desired. We are ideally looking for overqualified candidates to grow with the company as we expand beyond the beginning phases. The concept is a fermented foods cafe which will offer a multitude of the standard "health" cafe favorites but the health aspect taken particularly seriously. This will include, smoothies, juices, food items, frozen deserts etc. All with fermented ingredients and superfood/ extracts with scientifically demonstrated benefits. Being able to highlight the scientific side of the benefits will be a must, so please be prepared to be educating customers on concepts related to physiological/biological mechanisms of action, general health concepts and particular effects of various ingredients. We don't want you to memorize and reiterate we want you to truly understand so that you can educate the consumer.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $15.00 - $25.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule

Physical Setting:

• Casual dining restaurant
• Quick service & fast food restaurant

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Supplemental Pay:

• Bonus pay
• Tips

COVID-19 considerations:
Employees will wear masks

Education: High school or equivalent (Preferred)

Location: 965 State St, New Haven, CT 06511

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