Prepared Foods Specialist — Fresh, Friendly Service

Whole Foods Market; Greenville (SC); On-site; USD 23,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Whole Benefits

Store discount

Paid time off

Health & wellness support

Job summary

Whole Foods Market is seeking team members for Prepared Foods to prepare, serve, stock, and maintain clean and inviting displays of fresh foods. You will interact with customers, sample products, and uphold health and safety standards.

The role emphasizes strong customer service, proactive selling, and accurate pricing, with flexibility for a varied schedule and possible advancement based on performance.

Qualifications

• No prior retail experience required.

Responsibilities

• Cuts, prepares, and serves a variety of hot and cold foods, including meats, cheeses, sandwiches, burritos, wraps, salad, and pizza.
• Samples products to customers.
• Stocks hot and cold cases and displays with prepared foods from kitchen, walk-in preparation, and refrigerators.
• Checks in-stock product dates to ensure freshness and rotates when necessary.
• Bails and consolidates recyclables.
• Assists Team Leader in organizing and displaying volume and seasonal items.
• Completes spoilage, sampling, temperature, and sweep worksheets as required.
• Assists with periodic inventory checks.
• Arrives to work station on time, appropriately groomed, dressed and ready to work; works all scheduled shifts and attends required trainings and meetings.
• Provides excellent customer service, addresses needs of customers in a timely and effective manner and models suggestive selling techniques; answers phones and pages promptly and courteously.
• Maximizes sales potential through effective and proper procedures for prepping, storing, rotating, stocking, and merchandising product.
• Follows and complies, or ensures compliance, with established procedures, including Weights and Measures, health and sanitation, and safe work practices.
• Maintains, or ensures maintenance of, a clean and sanitary working and shopping environment; maintains equipment in accordance with WFM cleanliness and safety standards.
• Performs opening, mid, and closing duties as assigned; ensures accuracy of signs and pricing.
• Immediately reports safety hazards and violations.

Skills

Proactive selling

Attention to detail

Strong communication

Team player

Customer service

Tools

Knives

Box cutters

Electric pallet jacks

Ladders

Job description

Whole Foods Market is seeking team members for Prepared Foods to prepare, serve, stock, and maintain clean and inviting displays of fresh foods. You will interact with customers, sample products, and uphold health and safety standards.

The role emphasizes strong customer service, proactive selling, and accurate pricing, with flexibility for a varied schedule and possible advancement based on performance.