Deli Cook

La Montanita Food Cooperative; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 17,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

La Montañita Food Cooperative is seeking a Deli Cook to provide consistent, exceptional customer service while preparing bakery products and deli items. The role includes maintaining a clean, appealing department and greeting customers to ensure a welcoming store experience.

You will handle labeling, packaging, and pricing in accordance with department guidelines, assist with inventory, and support overall store cleanliness and safety.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED.
• Customer service skills (full customer service cycle).
• Effective communication skills.
• Food safety certification; if not certified, able to obtain within 1 month.
• Knowledge of basic math (counting, addition and subtraction).
• Adhere to safety, regulatory and wellness guidelines; PPE required.

Responsibilities

• Follows department guidelines for labeling, dating, and packaging for display and buffets.
• Serves case items with proper pricing, packaging, and weighing as needed.
• Orders, receives, and merchandises products following merchandising and safety standards.
• Replenishes products to ensure freshness and visibility.
• Maintains attractive signage and helps customers with product selections.
• Ensures sanitary processing and accurate pricing according to procedures.
• Supports inventory counts, storewide cleaning, and other projects as needed.
• Complies with safety procedures and reports unsafe conditions to management.

Skills

Customer service

Effective communication

Food safety knowledge

PPE compliance

Integrity & confidentiality

Problem solving

Teamwork

Education

High School diploma or GED

Job description

Description

The Deli Cook is responsible for providing consistent exceptional customer relations, creating delicious bakery products, delicious packaged and hot/salad bar food for customers, and maintaining a full display of attractive fresh products. The Deli Cook also ensures the department maintains its cleanliness, safety and appeal to customers (may also assist other departments in these areas on occasions). Most importantly, the Deli Cook will make all customers feel welcomed by acknowledging or greeting each customer and providing genuine, helpful, and respectful customer service.

SOME ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Follows department guidelines and procedures for labeling, dating, and packaging products for display and buffet cases
• Serves case items following department guidelines and procedures for pricing, packaging, and weighing, as needed.
• Orders, receives, and merchandises products following proper guidelines for merchandising, rotation, sanitation, pricing, mechanizing, and quality standards.
• Consistently replenishes products to ensure freshness and visibility.
• Maintains accurate and attractive signage within your department.
• Helps customers make product selections by answering questions and providing information about all deli-bakery items.
• Ensures accurate and sanitary product processing, packaging, labeling, dating, and pricing according to department procedures.
• Prioritizes time to ensure that cooking and baking prep work, stocking, cleaning, and customer service are handled efficiently.
• Creates and maintains an environment that enables customers to feel welcome, important, and appreciated by answering questions regarding products sold within the department and throughout the store by providing excellent customer service.
• Assists in inventory counts, storewide cleaning, and other projects as needed.
• Reinforces safety within the store by complying with safety procedures and identify unsafe conditions and notify store management or addressing the concern if appropriate.
• Ensures federal, state, local and La Montañita Food Cooperative regulations and standards for product freshness, safety, refrigeration, sanitation and weights and measures are being adhered to and met.
• Maintains presentation and quality standards in the department.
• Follows proper procedures for opening and closing.

Requirements

SOME REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS & ATTRIBUTES:

• High School diploma or GED.
• Customer service skills (able to complete the full customer service cycle).
• Effective communication skills
• Food safety certification. If not currently certified, able to obtain certification within 1 month.
• Knowledge of basic math (counting, addition and subtraction)
• Ability to adhere and follow safety, regulatory and wellness guidelines. Safety Conscious and adhering to required PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) is required.
• Good interpersonal and conflict resolution skills.
• Able to act with integrity, ethically, professionalism, and confidentiality.
• Able to identify and resolve problems in a timely manner.
• Able to deal and adapt to changes in the work environment, industry with a calm professional demeanor.
• Dependable, reliable and self-motivated.
• Able to work with a diverse group of people.