Do you LOVE coffee? Do you love creating a welcoming environment through food? This job is for you!
Here at Clover, we take our coffee very seriously. That is why if you've ever been to a Clover restaurant you will most-likely smell the freshly-brewed George Howell coffee or see the shiny Pour-Over cones as soon as you step in. At our coffee bar/station, we make beautiful drinks, create our own unique coffee syrups (Lavender, Mexican Chocolate, Orange Rind, etc.), and sell various bags of George Howell coffee beans.
In this role, you will create an open, welcoming atmosphere centered around food by drawing in customers with Clover storytelling. The ideal candidate will excel at working in a fast-paced restaurant environment and will be responsible for providing a premier experience to customers, building a sense of community within the restaurant, and collecting feedback from customers that will help Clover become a better place.
Our Barista should be a huge fan of Clover and coffee, loves food and sharing it with others, has excellent communications skills, and is a team-player with a strong work-ethic. This posting is for a Barista role at our CloverHSC location at 1 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA.
Some of the Barista duties will look like:
- Engaging one-on-one with customers through order-taking
- Baking treats and pastries each morning
- Ability to create current and new syrup flavors
- Working with their manager to build sales and improve customer experience
- Collecting and responding to customer feedback weekly
- Maintaining retail inventory, tracking sales, and assisting in merchandising
- Advertising Clover news through word of mouth, signage, partnerships, seasonal foods
Human Resources may invite you to participate in a Practical Interview to interview us. Applicants experience the job hands on, get to know the staff and gain a better understanding of Clover culture. This face-to-face interaction is also an opportunity to get to know you better.
Requirements
- Experience in a customer-facing role
- Excellent communications skills
- A passion for coffee and food, and a willingness to work hard
- A basic understanding of tone, voice, aesthetics, brand, and storytelling
- Ability to thrive in a self-directed, fast-paced, startup environment
- Ability to stand for prolonged periods of time, and occasional lifting up to 50lbs, with or without reasonable accommodation
- Able to work a varied schedule that includes nights and weekends
Dont meet every single requirement? We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be the right candidate for this or other roles.
Clover Food Lab is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against otherwise qualified applicants on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability or handicap, or veteran status.
Benefits
- Full health, vision and dental benefits available to full-time benefit-eligible staff
- Generous discounts on Clover meals, apparel, take-home mealboxes, and local food items
- Accommodating to schedules; part-time and full-time opportunities
- A fun and welcoming work environment with supportive management
- $300 referral bonus when you refer a friend to Clover
- Opportunity to build a meaningful career - lots of room to grow
- Free Knife Skills 101, 102, 103 classes (custom knife when you pass 102)
- Free cooking classes (pickling, soup-making, hot sauce making)
- Opportunities to attend food sourcing trips to coffee roasters, farmers, cheese-makers, etc
- Opportunities to attend food development meetings, contribute ideas/recipes to the menu
Seniority level
- Entry level
Employment type
- Full-time
Job function
- Customer Service
Industries
- IT Services and IT Consulting
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