Barista/Donut Engineer - Lexington, United States - Northlime
Description
**Barista/Donut Engineer**
**Location**
Limestone
101 W Loudon Ave, Lexington, KY 40508, USA
**Job Type**
Full Time or Part Time
**Compensation**
Base pay: $10 per hour + tips (average total $15 per hour)
**Benefits**
Up to 3 weeks of PTO per year hours earned per 1 hour worked)
Quarterly Bonuses (based on profitability, not guaranteed)
**About North Lime**
North Lime Coffee & Donuts is specialty coffee shop and donut bakery offering life-changing donuts and handcrafted beverages at 4 locations in Kentucky. We offer a community focused atmosphere, flexible schedule, and a creative work environment filled to the brim with fun supportive folks.
**About the Role**
Prepare and sell various hot and cold beverages. Perform a variety of baking and cooking duties including the preparation of donuts and other baked goods. This position requires heavy customer contact and excellent customer service skills. A positive attitude is required at all times in order to ensure the return of our customers who are the reason our business exists.
**Requirements**
**Basic Skills**
The essential skills include, but are not limited to the following:
Presents a positive attitude towards the job
Willingness to cooperate and contribute with North Lime Leadership
Be able and eager to perform all of the different tasks at a North Lime shop
Represent North Limes values at work
Maintain regular and consistent attendance and punctuality, with or without accommodation
Be available to work a variety of hours and maintain flexibility in scheduling
Be available to work during North Limes peak business hours and days
**Essential Duties & Responsibilities**
Prepare high quality hot and cold beverages and baked goods while following North Limes standards for production
Follow the recipes and standards for creating and producing North Lime products
Be mindful to not serve items that dont meet our standards
Work to develop new products that will be appealing to our customers
Respectfully address any quality or recipe issues with team members and, when necessary, a supervisor
Try to find ways to make North Lime a better place to work by communicating ideas with others
Opens and/or closes North Lime as scheduled
Maintains cleanliness in every area of the store at all times.
Engage customers beyond basic customer service by providing an experience that exceeds what a customer would normally expect
Accurately handle cash and reconciles change due to customers
Make things right when the customer isn't happy with their experience
At minimum, always smile and thank customers for visiting our shop
Provide a clean, welcoming, family friendly environment for our customers
Be able to engage, understand and serve customers in a positive way
**Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)**
Possess a Food Handlers Permit in compliance with local or state regulations
Ability to enjoy learning, developing, growing and changing with North Lime
Ability to handle stress under pressure
Ability to provide quality customer service
Ability to learn and use technical equipment (e.g. espresso machine, coffee grinders, brewing equipment )
Ability to reconcile all cash and currency
Willingness to maintain a clean, healthy, and safe working environment
Ability to learn and use technology North Lime uses in store
Ability to coordinate multiple activities with attention to detail
Ability to refrain from engaging in gossip at North Lime, speaking only directly to others or a supervisor if there is a concern or conflict
Ability to work independently, with minimal supervision
Personal access to a home phone, mobile phone or electronic mail is required
Be accepting of all co-workers by treating them with respect and dignity
Physical Demands and Work Environment
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand. The employee is occasionally required to sit; walk; use hands to handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus. Tasting and smelling abilities are required occasionally to distinguish with a degree of accuracy, differences or similarities in intensity or quality of flavors and/or odors. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, airborne particles, and hot liquids. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
North Lime Coffee & Donuts is an equal opportunity employer. North Lime Coffee & Donuts does not discriminate in employment on account of race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, physical or mental disability, military status or unfavorable discharge from military service.