Assistant Pastry Chef

Ellen's Bakery & Cafe; Sylvan Lake (MI); On-site; USD 36,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Ellen's Bakery & Cafe in Sylvan Lake, Michigan, seeks an experienced baker with wide baking and pastry knowledge to open the store, plan daily and weekly production, and coordinate with front-of-house staff. The role includes seasonal pastry development and cake decoration, with occasional coordination with the hot kitchen on specials.

Compensation is based on experience and discussed at interview. Experience in cake decorating and all aspects of baking and production methods is required.

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge in baking and pastry.
• Experience in cake decorating and seasonal pastry creation.
• Manage daily/weekly production lists and production flow with kitchen and front-of-house teams.
• Monitor product inventory and place vendor orders as needed.

Responsibilities

• Open the bakery and prepare daily production lists.
• Coordinate with back-of-house to realize daily/weekly production.
• Maintain inventory levels and place supply orders.
• Communicate stocking needs to front-of-house staff.

Skills

Baking and pastry production

Cake decorating

Inventory management

Vendor order placement

Production planning

Job description

We are seeking an experienced individual with a wide range of knowledge in baking and pastry.

This position requires opening the store, creating production lists for the day and week, working with other back of the house members to realize production, keeping up on product inventory, placing orders with vendors, communicating with front of the house staff on stocking and other chores.Creation of seasonal pastry specialties and specialty cake decoration are also an important aspect of the position.

Because we are a Bakery and Café, there is occasional coordination with the hot kitchen on specials

Compensation based on experience. Discussion of such at interview.

Experience in Cake Decorating, all aspects of baking, and production methods required.

Chef Ellen grew up in the Washington D.C. Suburbs of Virginia.
She studied theater and art at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, and then moved to Blacksburg, Virginia where she found a job in a local bakery. After seven years, she returned to the D.C. Area to work in a local restaurant before attending the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York in 1988.
She met George in August of that year. Her extern from the CIA was spent at Ridgewells Caterer in Maryland, where she met her pastry mentor, Chef Karl Meuller. After graduation, she moved to Michigan to work at the Grand Plaza Hotel in Grand Rapids.
George and Ellen were married in 1992 and settled in Sylvan Lake one year later.