Company description

Minifactory (cafe & grocery) homes V Smiley Preserves (honey sweetened jam company) in downtown Bristol, Vermont. This hybrid restaurant, grocery and production model hums with daily activity.

The dining room is non-traditional, offering different services on weekends versus weekdays and welcoming a mix of daily regulars and folks traveling to Minifactory as a destination where guests enjoy comforting and surprising food, peruse the jam shelves and shop our neighbors on the block from vintage shops, candle makers, to old school pizza to a book shop that sells guitars.

The fabulous town of Bristol Vermont is located in Addison County. The area is agricultural and adjacent to the mountain communities of Lincoln and Starksboro. We are a 40 minute drive to Burlington, 25 minutes to Middlebury.

Job description

On Saturdays & Sundays at Minifactory we serve a range of folks from regulars popping in for cardamom buns and coffee to large group celebrating milestones at the big community table. People take food to go, pick up picnic supplies, hold meetings, meet friends and more. The host directs foot traffic, welcoming guests, pointing them in the right direction and taking care of the dining room on the busy weekends. This front facing and dynamic role requires confidence, warmth, leadership, quickness and a zest for multi-tasking.

A strong interest in food and drink provides an enormous boost to your work as you point out new dishes, share where ingredients are coming from and how the food is presented while being able to work with customers around food preferences, sensitives and allergies.

Hosts learn how to make coffee and take orders to cover weekday shifts when we run Minifactory without a host.

Dishwashing is performed as a restaurant-wide team where all folks take turns through this station.

Staff tend to work a mix of opening and closing shifts to maintain equanimity.

Daytime shifts. 18-24 hours/week. Saturday & Sunday availability required. 2-4 shifts per week depending on how many hours you seek.

Minifactory offers additional paid time off, up to 2 weeks to start and 3 weeks after 2 years with the company. Minifactory also offers a weekly CSA (veg, meat, eggs) share from Footprint Farm and Addison County Relocalization Network.

Compensation

this position is: hourly, $20/hr +

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Deadline

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