What are the responsibilities and job description for the Adams' Salad Bar Supervisor (Full Time, Full Availability) position at Adams Fairacre Farms, Inc.?
General Purpose
The Adams Kitchen Supervisor provides customer-friendly service to our valuable customers and provides the quality products that Adams is known for. This means fulfilling customer requests, ensuring that the department is operating smoothly by assigning and delegating tasks, opening and closing the department, filling and rotating the cases, keeping the hot bar, hot case, cold cases and salad bar fresh and full, working with the kitchen to make sure nothing runs out, and being the final line for quality control in the department.
FLSA Status: Non-exempt
Reports to: Adams Kitchen Manager, Assistant Manager
Job Description
- Ensure that customers receive the best customer service by providing friendly, polite, and knowledgeable service
- Greet customers personally and thank them appreciatively for shopping at Adams
- Assign tasks to Associate I’s and II’s and rotate people and tasks as business needs require
- Delegate work to Associate I’s and II’s to improve and maintain smooth and efficient department operation
- Assist in training department team members
- Rotate products and educate team members on the importance of product rotation and how to handle and display products properly
- Keep hot bar, hot case, cold cases, and salad bar fresh and full
- If assigned, assist in ordering both perishable and non-perishable supplies for the department
- Provide leadership support to the senior chefs in communicating what items need to be restocked and what items are running low
- If opening, perform start of day procedures, including turning on equipment, putting on soups, preparing packaged products for cold case, hot case, salad bar, or other assigned areas
- If closing, perform end of day procedures
- Compose salads according to recipes
- Prepare products for catering events, holidays, and special events
- Perform prep work as assigned
- Be able to prepare all lunch and breakfast items to order
- Refill products according to freshness guidelines
- Take inventory and purchase/ transfer products of quality and freshness to be used in restocking
- Weigh, price and store products
- Be the final line for quality control: look for packaging issues, sell-by dates, and be vigilant about quality and presentation of all products put into the case
- Receive and put away deliveries; check weights for accuracy and match inventory to bill
- Take customer orders both in person and on the phone
- If assigned, work with advertising to develop and promote sale items
- Clean cases, including wiping shelves and keeping glass clean at all times
- Clean dishes and equipment used and put them away once dry
- Keep all areas of the department clean and organized, including sales floor, counters, cases, coolers, preparation, and production areas
- When a customer needs assistance, give the customer priority over the task at hand
Physical Requirements
- Consistently lift and move 50 pounds
- Stand for duration of shift
- Climb up and down a stepstool, stepladder, and ladder
- Use hands, wrists, fingers and arms for duration of shift
- Safely operate and use knives, buffalo chopper, donut machine, slicer, immersion blender, hand mixer, deep fryers, ovens, stovetop, steamer, charboiler, kettle and griddle
- Use the compactor and cardboard crusher for disposing of garbage and recycling
Qualifications
- Be food safety certified
- Communicate clearly with customers and co-workers, and store management team
- Employees are our internal customers; treat them with the same courtesy and respect as our external customers
- Be 18 years or older
- Must work efficiently and at a productive pace per department needs
- Must be able to work scheduled shift
- Follow all department safety policies and procedures
- Be able to concentrate on tasks in order to avoid injury and waste of product
- Be knowledgeable about Adams product – recommend cooking methods and ideas to customers by exploring customer preferences and advocating Adams product
- Adams Kitchen Associate II, Line Cook II, or equivalent
