Job Description

Breadsmith in Hyde Park (3500 Michigan Ave.) is looking to hire a retail associate. We are an artisan bakery that produces fresh, preservative free products, daily. We offer a casual work environment, with ad-free, employee selected music (within reason), and focus highly on work/life balance. Our scheduling is flexible and time off requests are first come, first serve, but honored as often as possible. You may also apply directly on our website . There is definite room for growth, and we have had excellent staff retention. We are seeking to add to our wonderful team as we grow.

A typical day starts early in the morning. Our doors open at 7A, and you will be starting at 5A for the opening shift. There are later shifts available throughout the day, and we are flexible to mold around an existing school schedule, family, or second job. Depending on the day of the week, the tasks change. Tuesday-Friday consists of more product preparation, such as portioning cookies and scones for the week, packaging house-made ancillary items, and labeling wholesale bags. Saturday and Sunday are much more customer oriented. An average day sees ~60 customers over the 7A-5P weekday, and double that on weekends. We are closed on Mondays.

The job will consist of the following:

- Free bread every shift
- Weekend availability is required
- Customer interaction
- Money handling
- Product preparation and packaging (bagging granola/croutons, adorning product with icings/toppings)
- Product knowledge
- Food handling and preparation (bagging/slicing bread per customer specifications or for markets)
- Labeling bags for wholesale
- Cleaning/mopping/sweeping

There is room for growth, as well as transitions to different branches of the business. Multiple retail employees have migrated from retail to production, wholesale, or markets, and we have multiple that bounce around. We are a multifaceted business that keeps the job fresh, and are committed to staff satisfaction.

Job Tags

Casual work, Second job, Flexible hours, Sunday, Saturday, Afternoon shift, Early shift, Weekday work,

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