Café Assistants

Cowdray Estate; Midhurst; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 17,000; Full time

Job summary

Cowdray Estate in Midhurst is seeking Café Assistants for a busy Farm Shop & Café. We welcome applicants with customer service flair and a positive, can-do attitude to join a friendly, sociable team. Training will be provided, and experience in hospitality/retail is valued.

We offer opportunities to grow within the business, with a focus on high-quality food and guest satisfaction in a rural estate setting.

Qualifications

• Experience in hospitality/retail preferred.
• Must have good customer service and be friendly and outgoing.

Responsibilities

• Provide excellent customer service in a busy Farm Shop & Café.
• Assist customers, handle transactions, and maintain store presentation.
• Work as part of a sociable team to deliver a great guest experience.

Skills

Customer service

Team player

Positive attitude

Job description

Café Assistants

Are you looking for a full time or part time role as part of an award-winning Farm Shop and Café team?

Do you have fantastic customer service skills and enjoy working as part of a fun, sociable team?

We are currently looking for Full time and Part time Café Assistants here at Cowdray.

About the Estate:

This progressive family-owned rural estate is located at the heart of the South Downs National Park and employs over 200 staff. Steeped in history and heritage, it contains the ruins of one of England most important early Tudor Houses and is the home of British Polo. There is also our award-winning Farm Shop & Café, a championship Golf Course, Holiday Accommodation, Wellbeing Centre and Cowdray House, a luxury event venue which sit alongside the more traditional estate activities including, forestry, and deer management.

About the applicant:

The successful applicants will enjoy being part of a hardworking, outgoing team and have fantastic customer service skills. We are ideally looking for some hospitality/retail experience, but it is equally important to find team members that are confident, friendly and outgoing with a positive can-do attitude. Full training will be given.

You will need to be a self-motivated and creative person with a positive and cheerful nature. Our Farm Shop and Café are highly sociable so therefore you need to like people and to understand what good customer service means.

We want people who really enjoy good food and are interested to learn more about where their food comes from, how it is made and how best to enjoy it. We want people who recognise that there are opportunities within our business to build a career, starting at the grass roots and learning the skills to enable you to take on more challenges and with that, bigger roles.