Prep & Pack Staff (Seasonal)

Title: Prep & Pack Staff (Seasonal)
Dept: Food Services
Hours: Full & Part time available
Report to: Head Cheese Monger & Repack
Wage: This position pays $17.00 - $18.50 per hour depending on experience.

The Prep & Pack staff position is central to our Food Services Department. Within our Food Services Department the Prep & Pack staff will assist both the Kitchen and Bakery departments with preparing ingredients by washing and chopping fruits & vegetables and other meal prep activities for daily production. In addition, this position will assist the Head Cheese Monger & Repack with weighing, packaging, and labelling bulk items to be sold in the Farmstand.

In our daily work, we:

• Check product dates and rotate stock daily.
• Packaging and labelling items such as baked goods, cheese, kitchen sides and entrees, and other food items for sale in the Farmstand.
• Weigh, package, and label bulk products for retail purchase in the Farmstand.
• Grind in-house nut butters into jars.
• Food prep tasks such as cutting vegetables, cutting herbs, scooping cookie dough, and mixing ingredients.
• Monitor label pricing and maintain an up-to-date list of product prices and PLUs, informing the Head Cheese Monger & Repack of discrepancies.
• Assist kitchen leads with creating appealing product displays and keep the retail area in the Farmstand scrupulously clean to help drive sales.
• Attention to detail, especially when performing quality inspections on ingredients and products or when maintaining accurate product inventories.
• Understand and follow good food handling practices and food safety, ensuring all food and food deliveries are received, handled, prepared, and stored according to all required food safety code standards.
• Receive and properly store deliveries when needed.
• Clean, sweep, and mop when necessary and at the end of each shift.
• If over 18 years old, slicing in-house baked breads.
• Take out trash and recycle when necessary and at the end of each shift.