Company description
The Pantry is a gathering place that builds community through food, classes, and shared stories. We believe in cultivating relationships, supporting an equitable food system, creating inspiring food careers, and engaging in joyful eating. We do many things: cooking classes that focus on traditional food crafts and techniques, five-course family-style dinners, culinary camps for the kids, power lunches for makers who are itching to enter the food industry, and cookbook-club potlucks. Basically anything we can think of to get our neighbors around the table, breaking bread and building community.
Job description
- Work full-time with a mix of teaching, assisting, dinners, and admin projects.
Teaching & Assisting Culinary Classes
- Teach classes each month. Develop class topics, menus, recipes, and outlines for their classes.
- Assist other instructor’s classes and provide real-time feedback to chef instructors. Support the guests and instructor to encourage community and ensure a smooth event. Help cook food, serve meals, and wash dishes.
Dinners & Catering Manager
- Work with chefs and admin teams to manage public and private dinners to ensure ingredients are sourced correctly and timelines are met.
- Support and train new chefs to grow a dinners team that is knowledgeable, capable, and exude the Pantry brand personality: fun, quirky, charming, & community-oriented.
- Support recipe development.
- Lead regular meetings with the dinners and catering team, taking detailed notes and managing the agenda.
- Cook for public and private dinners.
Class Prep Manager
- Work with instructors and admin teams to develop weekly prep lists and make sure all classes have the support they need.
- Communicate with instructors about prep that has been completed.
- Make sure all class prep is completed by yourself or other staff.
General Management
- Support staff management by being aware of issues with staff and communicating staff needs to the leadership team.
- Be at ease with frequent email communication, filling out spreadsheets, and formatting google documents.
- Provide a phenomenal customer experience through email, phone, and in-person interaction.
- Meet deadlines on all projects. Communicate proactively with management if additional time is needed or if time allotted is excessive.
- Arrive on time for assigned shifts, being physically and mentally present during the shifts, and stay for the duration of each shift.
- Turn in deliverables for all side projects that have been billed for.
- Maintain valid Food Handlers and MAST permits.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Proficient in Google Workspace or related software.
- Ability to effectively teach others.
- Ability to function well in a high-paced and at times stressful environment.
- Ability to work quickly and efficiently.
- Ability to work well as part of a team.
- Ability to maintain personal hygiene.
Physical Requirements:
- Prolonged periods of sitting, standing, and working in a kitchen.
- Exposure to extreme heat, steam, and cold present in a kitchen environment.
- Must be able to work evenings and mornings.
- Manual dexterity to cut and chop foods and perform other related tasks.
Schedule and Salary Details:
- Tuesday though Saturday schedule
- $75,000-$80,000, depending on experience
- 3 weeks PTO + 8 paid holidays
- Contribution to an IRA account
- Contribution to group healthcare plan
Compensation
this position is: salaried, $75,000 - $100,000
Application instructions
This job expired on August 19, 2025
Deadline
July 07, 2025