Produce Associate - Fresh Food & Customer Service

Mustard Seed Market & Cafe; Akron (AL); On-site; USD 17,000 - 21,000; Full time

Job summary

Mustard Seed Market & Cafe in Alabama is seeking a Produce Clerk to deliver friendly, efficient service and maintain the quality, freshness, and presentation of produce. This role emphasizes stock rotation, attractive displays, and accurate signage, while assisting customers with product knowledge and prep tasks.

You will unload shipments, monitor resets, and help keep the department clean and organized in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent is required.
• ServSafe Food Handler Level 1 Certificate is required (can be obtained during employment).
• Previous experience in a front-facing retail environment is preferred.
• Previous experience with food handling or service is preferred.
• Experience with food prep is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Provides customers with prompt and courteous service and assistance.
• Greets customers as they enter the store through the department.
• Inspect products for quality ensuring signs of spoilage, damage, or unwanted additions are resolved.
• Ensure produce environment is clean, sanitized, and presentable at all times; debris and trash removed timely.
• Condition department according to leadership policy including rearranging equipment and displays.
• Maintain appropriate stock levels according to business needs.
• Rotate products according to FIFO methodology.
• Arrange displays in line with presentation standards for produce.
• Address pricing and signage issues promptly, notifying leadership of discrepancies.
• Wash products according to washing categories per leadership instruction.
• Trim and prepare products according to policy and daily needs.
• Unload shipments and manage backstock as instructed.
• Learn taste, preparation, differences, uses, ripeness of produce.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Problem Solving

Initiative

Attention to Detail

Verbal Communication

Teamwork

Knife Skills

Merchandising

Independent Work

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

ServSafe Food Handler Level 1 Certificate

Tools

Knives

Scale

Pricing Gun

Box Cutter

Push Carts

Job description

Mustard Seed Market & Cafe in Alabama is seeking a Produce Clerk to deliver friendly, efficient service and maintain the quality, freshness, and presentation of produce. This role emphasizes stock rotation, attractive displays, and accurate signage, while assisting customers with product knowledge and prep tasks.

You will unload shipments, monitor resets, and help keep the department clean and organized in a fast-paced environment.