Company description

Bé Bếp is a Vietnamese catering and food delivery business rooted in seasonal cooking, traditional foodways, and practices of care. We offer a bi-weekly meal delivery called 'Simmer Series' and postpartum meal plan focused on nourishing, seasonal, and medicinal soups.

Job description

We're looking for a highly organized, hands-on Production & Operations Assistant to help run our biweekly Simmer Series, a seasonal prepared-food delivery program, and oversee our Postpartum Meal Plan production.

This role sits between kitchen production, inventory, packaging, and fulfillment. You'll work closely with chef/founder Phoebe Tran, with the goal of taking ownership of the recurring operational systems that keep production organized and on schedule.

Responsibilities

• Set up and organize the kitchen, ingredients, and workstations for production
• Assist with recurring mise en place and food prep
• Assist with cooling, portioning, labeling, counting, and storing finished dishes
• Maintain an organized, sanitary workspace and oversee end-of-day breakdown
• Maintain inventory of packaging supplies and flag shortages before next production
• Ensure recurring production items are prepped and ready for the next cycle
• Organize finished products by customer order and accurately pack each delivery
• Perform final order checks and stage orders for drivers
• Coordinate delivery service and driver handoff
• Send scheduled customer delivery communications and flag issues as they arise
• Update inventory and production trackers after each cycle
  
  Who We're Looking For
  You're organized, reliable, detail-oriented, and comfortable working in a fast-paced kitchen environment. You enjoy creating systems, anticipating needs, and catching problems before they happen. You're able to follow established processes while taking initiative and working independently.
  Experience in restaurants, catering, food production, commissary kitchens, fulfillment, or operations is strongly preferred. You don't need to be a professional cook, but should be comfortable with basic food prep and physical kitchen work.

Schedule & Compensation
Every other Monday morning: Admin Day (~1-3 hours)
Every other Tuesday: Production Day (~8-10 hours)
Every other Wednesday morning: Pack-Out & Delivery Day (~2-4 hours)

Occasional remote administrative work may be required before production. Production takes place in a commercial kitchen in Brooklyn. Reliability on scheduled production and delivery days is essential.

$23-25/hour, depending on experience. Potential for additional paid work with Bé Bếp catering, pop-ups, and special events.

Compensation

this position is: hourly, $20/hr +

Application instructions

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Deadline

October 30, 2026