Food Service Associate

Living Desert; Palm Desert (CA); Hybrid; USD 19,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Living Desert in Palm Desert, CA is seeking a Food Service Associate to support daily restaurant operations and deliver memorable guest experiences. The role involves front-of-house prep, maintaining sanitation, and ensuring safety standards are met while assisting with item prep and stock rotation.

Ideal candidates are team players with strong interpersonal skills, capable of multitasking in a fast-paced setting and available to work varied hours, including nights and weekends.

Qualifications

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to remain flexible in a fast-paced environment.
• Team player, personable, professional and energetic with initiative.

Responsibilities

• Customer service to ensure a memorable guest experience.
• Supports restaurant prep (FOH and line) for daily operation.
• Maintains safe, clean, and organized work environment.
• Follows safety rules and sanitation requirements.
• Assists with daily prep and item lists as assigned.
• Responds to guest feedback and reports issues to supervisor.
• Keeps knowledge of menu items, prices, and specials for guests.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Job description

Description

Position Title: Food Service Associate

Reports to: Food Service Lead (if applicable) and/or Food Service Supervisor(s)

Responsibilities

• Customer Service to ensure a memorable experience for every guest and client.
• Supports restaurant prep (FOH and line) for daily operation.
• Meets daily quick service, food service, safety and quality, availability, merchandising and guest service standards.
• Participates in safety logs including food temperatures, rotation and waste as necessary.
• Ensures proper uniform, hygiene, hand-washing and glove use with self.
• Maintains a safe work environment by abiding to all safety rules.
• Follows through daily prep and items lists, as assigned.
• Actively helps to support operation in assigned role, supporting holes as necessary.
• Actively and efficiently responds to guest and client feedback, with report to the supervisor to ensure that any potential complaints are mitigate against further occurrence.
• Communicates up to the Restaurant Supervisor and/or Food Operations Manager in regard to any issues seen with daily service or quality.
• Remains knowledgeable of all menu items, prices and specials for sharing with guests.
• Perform other tasks as deemed necessary.
• Maintains a clean, safe and organized work environment.
• Uphold and demonstrate a complete understanding of company policies and procedures.
• Responsibly geared towards presenting a clean and welcome experience for guests through upholding sanitation requirements.

Requirements

Job Requirements

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Exceptional problem solving/decision making skills combined with the ability to be organized.
• Demonstrates the ability to remain flexible in a fast-paced environment.
• Ideal candidate is a team player, personable, professional, upbeat and energetic, and takes initiative.
• Physical ability to stand for extended periods and to move and handle boxes (10-35lbs) as necessary to operation, which entails lifting, and perform all functions as set forth above.
• Ability to work varied hours/days, including nights, weekends and holidays, as needed.

Previous Experience

• None Required

This is by no means an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements, efforts or working conditions associated with this job description. The General Manager reserves the right to revise the job description or to require that other or different tasks are performed when circumstances change (i.e. emergencies, changes in personnel, workload, rush jobs or technological developments)