Soft Serve/Chill Station Crew Member - Day Shift

Dairy Queen Charlottesville; Charlottesville (VA); On-site; USD 17,908 - 19,286; Part time

Job summary

A popular fast food chain in Charlottesville is seeking a Soft Serve/Chill Station Crew Member for the day shift from 10 am to 4:30 pm. Responsibilities include executing soft serve operations, maintaining food safety standards, and ensuring a pleasant experience for customers. Prior fast food experience is necessary, and candidates should be able to perform under pressure in a high-volume environment. The position offers a pay range of $13 - $14 per hour plus cash tips.

Qualifications

• Must be able to read order monitors and communicate products.
• Must maintain proper hygiene and exhibit good manners.
• Must work in varying temperature ranges.

Responsibilities

• Execute soft serve operations, ensuring food meets safety standards.
• Prepare food products accurately and quickly.
• Clean work area and maintain equipment hygiene.
• Communicate effectively with team members and management.

Skills

Prior Fast Food/Quick Serve Restaurant experience

Good manners

Positive attitude

Ability to perform under pressure

Job description

Overview

Soft Serve/Chill Station Crew Member - Day Shift (Opener) - 10 am to 4:30 pm

Pay: $13 - $14.00/ Hour plus Cash Tips

Prior Fast Food/ Quick Serve Restaurant experience is required.

We are looking to add a team member to our current fun-loving, brilliant working team to provide the best DQ fan experience.

Responsibilities

• Execute all soft serve operations, ensuring all prepared foods meet restaurant safety and health standards. Makes, assembles, and garnishes soft serve/ treat items, and stocks all needed products, and preparation materials cleanly and safely. Essential job functions include, but are not limited to:
• Communicate, quickly, and politely with co-workers to ensure the correct order is served to the customers.
• Quickly and accurately prepares food products following restaurant, health, and safety standards and procedures.
• Be pleasant and alert to customer needs.
• Properly and safely operates and maintains restaurant equipment including soft serve machine, blending machine, freezer, and chill equipment while following all health and safety standards.
• Work as a “team” member to assure constant and consistent quality, service, cleanliness, and value to each customer.
• Clean work area, organize and stock needed items. Move various food, treat paper, and cleaning items from other sections of the building (or outside the building) to the immediate work area.
• Stocks and executes proper rotation of products.
• Completes assigned prep work for stocking and set up of the chill area.
• Breaks down and cleans the chill area thoroughly every day as assigned by a manager or shift leader.
• Wash counters, tables, restrooms, and trash receptacles, gather trash and remove it from dining/service areas to proper receptacles, sweep, mop, stock, and other cleaning tasks. Occasional need to be out of the building (i.e., parking lot, freezer, trash container areas, etc.) for parking lot pick-up, trash removal, and other maintenance and cleaning activities.
• Informs immediate supervisor promptly of all problems or unusual matters of significance.
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as requested by management staff or shift leaders.

Additional Responsibilities

• Operates chill area by established standards, policies, and procedures.
• Responsible for quick, accurate, and safe food production process.
• Assists in the success of the restaurant by ensuring guest satisfaction through adhering to standards for quality, value, service, and cleanliness.
• Maintains a positive working relationship with all restaurant employees and customers to foster and promote a cooperative and pleasant working climate.
• Communicates all significant issues, both positive and negative, with management staff.
• Operates chill area by established PRIDE standards, policies, and procedures.
• Responsible for the quick, accurate, and safe treatment production process.
• Assists in the success of the restaurant by ensuring guest satisfaction through adhering to company standards for quality, value, service, and cleanliness.
• Maintains a positive working relationship with all restaurant employees to foster and promote a cooperative and pleasant working climate.
• Communicates all significant issues, both positive and negative, with management staff.

Requirements

• Must be able to move cases of food/paper products, buckets of sanitizing liquid or cleaner, and containers of up to 50 pounds up to 10 times per six-hour shift.
• Must be able to perform under pressure in a high-volume restaurant including moving and responding quickly for long periods.
• Must be able to travel quickly in customer service area as much as three times for each customer up to as many as 40 customers per hour of shift.
• Must be able to work in and out of different temperature ranges.
• Must be able to stand for long periods.
• Must be able to read order monitors, and recall and communicate products and contents.
• Must practice established food handling procedures and meet any local health regulations.
• Must exhibit and use good manners, proper personal hygiene, a positive attitude, and promptness.