This is an immediate opening!

Ellen's Bakery & Cafe in Sylvan Lake seeking a Food Runner to join our existing team. The ideal candidate will have great communication skills, stamina, be a team player, and love to work.

*Food Runner Job Responsibilities:

• Delivering food orders from the kitchen to customers’ tables rapidly and accurately

• Acting as the point of contact between Front of the House and Back of the House staff

• Communicating food orders to chefs, paying attention to priorities (e.g. food allergies)

*Food Runner Job Duties:

• Prepares dining room for patrons by cleaning and clothing tables; setting decorations, condiments, candles, napkins, service plates, and utensils.
• Protects establishment and patrons by adhering to sanitation and safety policies.
• Maintains table setting by removing courses as completed; replenishing utensils; refilling water glasses; being alert to patron spills or other special needs.
• Supports wait staff by setting-up and replenishing condiment stands, trash containers liners, and bus stations.
• Closes dining facility by cleaning chairs and tables; sweeping and/or vacuuming floors; removing trash and recyclables from the facility.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in staff training opportunities.
• Enhances organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

*Food Runner Skills and Qualifications:

• Listening 

• Presentation Skills 

• Verbal Communication 

• Customer Focus 

• Customer Service 

• Teamwork 

• People Skills 

• Action Oriented 

• Productivity 

• Energy Level 

• Client Relationships

• Job Type: Part-time Salary: $10.00 /hour 

• 50% off shift meals!

Chef Ellen grew up in the Washington D.C. Suburbs of Virginia.
She studied theater and art at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, and then moved to Blacksburg, Virginia where she found a job in a local bakery. After seven years, she returned to the D.C. Area to work in a local restaurant before attending the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York in 1988.
She met George in August of that year. Her extern from the CIA was spent at Ridgewells Caterer in Maryland, where she met her pastry mentor, Chef Karl Meuller. After graduation, she moved to Michigan to work at the Grand Plaza Hotel in Grand Rapids.
George and Ellen were married in 1992 and settled in Sylvan Lake one year later.