Guest Experience Team Member

Impact Kitchen; Toronto; On-site; CAD 30,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A community-focused restaurant in Toronto seeks a Guest Experience Team Member (GETM) to uphold hospitality standards and ensure guest satisfaction. The role involves preparing beverages, taking orders, and maintaining a welcoming environment. Successful candidates will thrive in a fast-paced setting and have opportunities for growth into leadership positions. Compensation includes $18.50/hour along with a tip-pooling program and employee discounts, fostering a supportive workplace for all team members.

Benefits

Tip-pooling program

Employee discounts on products

Flexible scheduling

Qualifications

• Must be available to work flexible hours including days, evenings, and weekends.
• Strong teamwork orientation and respect towards colleagues is essential.
• Prior barista experience is an asset but not necessary.

Responsibilities

• Ensure high hospitality standards for guests and partners.
• Serve beverages and food while maintaining a positive experience.
• Prepare beverages to high standards quickly and efficiently.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Ability to execute in a fast-paced environment

Time management

Multitasking

Understanding of food safety

Standing for extended periods

Barista experience

Education

Food Handlers Certification (preferred)

Job description

MAKE YOUR IMPACT

Impact Kitchen is on a mission to empower our community to eat healthy, nutritionally-dense foods with a focus on quality and sustainability. We know what you eat matters, and we seek to make an impact by choosing local, ethically-sourced ingredients that will nourish you and help you thrive everyday.

Founded in 2015, Impact Kitchen is the brainchild of former personal trainer and nutrition expert, Josh Broun, and Frank Toskan (co‑founder of M·A·C Cosmetics).

In addition to our 5 restaurants located within Toronto’s core, Impact Kitchen fuels many of the city’s major sports teams and top athletes through our catering and culinary programs and partnerships.

Impact Kitchen is always looking for enthusiastic, passionate, service‑oriented team members to join our diverse team. If health and wellness is your passion, if providing wholesome food and empowering others to make healthy choices drives you, and if you are looking for opportunities to grow alongside a dynamic team, then working with Impact might be a great fit for you!

GUEST EXPERIENCE TEAM MEMBER

As a Guest Experience Team Member (GETM) at Impact Kitchen you set the hospitality standard high and are passionate to ensure guests enjoy their experience. You create positive interactions at all moments in the guests journey. You create a sense of community while taking orders, serving or siding. You partner with your Culinary Experience counterparts on the team ensuring great teamwork. You are the first point of contact in our guest’s journey and are passionate to prepare a variety of beverages (coffee, tea, smoothies) to high standards and with a quick turnaround.

COMPENSATION

Guest Experience Team Members earn $18.50/hour, participate in a tip‑pooling program, receive a substantial discount on Impact Kitchen products and have flexible scheduling to accommodate a healthy balanced lifestyle.

TEAM & DEPARTMENT

Guest Experience Team Members make an impact everyday through our front‑of‑house operations and make up a large portion of our total team population. In this role you will have the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues from multiple levels of the organization while being the main point of contact for our guests. The Guest Experience Team Member reports to Guest Experience Management including the Assistant Manager and General Manager of each Restaurant.

One of the initial entry points for our restaurant teams, the Guest Experience Team Member is the perfect knowledge incubator. Those that excel in their capacity as a GETM have the opportunity to succeed to a Guest Experience Team Lead role where they train and develop top talent for the organization, and then on to restaurant management.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Providing best‑in‑class hospitality to Impact Kitchen guests, vendors and delivery partners.
• Performing serving duties including serving and siding dishes, beverages and alike.
• Preparing and providing take‑out orders to guests and delivery partners.
• Making an impact at point of sale including taking orders and serving as an Impact Kitchen subject matter expert regarding menu and process.
• Preparing beverages in a timely manner according to menu and customer specifications. Items include: Coffee and espresso‑based beverages with superior latte art, tonics, tea, and wellness drinks.
• Able to execute all Front of House positions in order to support a smooth service.
• Dialing espresso grinders daily and continually monitoring espresso quality.
• Accurately inputting orders through POS system to ensure efficient communication with service line, coffee bar and smoothie bar.
• Setting up and closing down the barista and smoothie stations at the start and end of each shift while maintaining cleanliness and sanitization of workspace and bar equipment.
• Conduct above and beyond training for relevant team members, ensuring a top‑tier experience.
• Supporting other restaurant tasks and teammates as required.

SKILLS

• Excellent communication skills; ability to communicate effectively, respectfully and work well with others in a team based setting.
• Ability to execute and thrive in a quick paced hospitality environment.
• Exceptional time management and organizational skills with the ability to multitask when required.
• Be able to work in a standing position for extended periods of time.
• Availability to work days, evenings, and weekends as business requires.
• General understanding of food safety and public health practices.
• Preferred but not required: Food Handlers Certification.
• Preferred but not required: 1 year Barista experience.

INCLUSIVITY AT IMPACT

Impact Kitchen feeds a diverse community and is made stronger by a diverse team. We welcome and encourage applications from our entire community equally. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the decision to hire is based solely on business needs, experience and future potential. Hiring is not determined or influenced by any classification of an individual as protected by the laws that govern the region for which the prospective individual would work within. This is true for all practices and policies within the employee journey/lifecycle.

Impact Kitchen supports alternative ways to interview and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Should you require a reasonable accommodation, please indicate in your application. Both Impact Kitchen management and the applicant share responsibility to communicate and reasonably accommodate.