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Description

WHO WE ARE

The Salty is an artisan donut shop that focuses on chef-made, craft donuts that rotate based on seasonality. We use nothing but the highest quality ingredients and make everything in house! Naturally, we don’t use any artificial ingredients in anything we make, because, well - that’s gross! If we wouldn’t serve it to our own family, we definitely wouldn’t serve it to yours! Coffee? Yep! We serve Intelligentsia Coffee and have crafted a coffee menu that pleases all palettes. Lastly, to what makes The Salty- The Salty, is our obsession with customer service. Today’s day and age it’s so easy to get lost in your phone, lost in the madness of the world, so we try to create an environment that is an escape from that hazy life. A place that you know as a customer you’ll receive a positive consistent donut and experience each time. This obsession all starts with you.

THE JOB

The Salty’s Pastry Cooks are responsible for monitoring and prepping all items needed for production. Pastry Cooks work directly with the Pastry Chef, they receive all recipes and quantities from the Pastry Chef each week. Pastry Cooks must be extremely organized and familiar with working with large batch recipes. Our training is structured so that our Pastry Cooks builds a strong product-knowledge foundation, gain exceptional skills to be able to train the team underneath them and learns to handle many different situations that may arise within our kitchen.

Requirements

WHAT WE OFFER

• Schedule flexibility
• Weekly Competitive Pay plus Tips
• Paid parental leave
• Health, dental and vision benefit plan options for full-time team members
• Matching Health Savings Account
• Company paid life insurance
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Pet Insurance
• 40% off all merchandise, donut and coffee orders, and catering
• Friends and family discount
• Anniversary Program
• PTO

WHO WE WANT

We want someone that is willing to put massive amounts of love, care and dedication into creating the world's most beautiful donuts! This candidate will have the opportunity to flourish and grow as we continue to expand each year! We want someone who isn’t about that typical restaurant life!

RESPONSIBILITIES/EXPERIENCE

Leadership:

- Acting in a responsible manner that promotes the culture, values and mission of The Salty Donut.

- Setting the example for the team while maintaining consistent attendance and punctuality.

Key Responsibilities:

- Ability to follow and adhere to recipes and execution standards

- Having a thorough understanding of basic pastry techniques such as mixing methods, making pastry cream, cooking curd and scaling

- Decorating donuts and other pastry items by following The Salty execution standards, ensuring all finished products meet The Salty's quality and appearance standards.

- Communicating with Kitchen Leads and EPC/Sous about donut numbers and quality throughout the day.

- Ensuring cleanliness of work areas including under the tables and in the fridges.

- Ensuring maintenance of equipment used daily. Any malfunctions with machinery must be brought to the attention of the Pastry Chef immediately.

- Performing an opening or closing inventory as needed that is sent to the executive chef for ordering purposes.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Previous Kitchen experience is a plus, but not required! 
• Ability to work a variety of shifts, including weekends, and holidays 
• Comfortable with physically strenuous and repetitive tasks
• Excellent punctuality and reliable transportation to and from work
• An extreme attention to detail
• Ability to multitask and set priorities
• Friendly attitude & team player
• Excellent time management skills to work at a fast pace when given plenty of time
• Curiosity to continue to learn
• Integrity to work alone with minimal supervision
• Initiative to communicate and suggest improvements when needed 
• Ability to perform basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
• Ability to work in a standing position for long periods of time (up to 10 hours)
• Ability to bend, reach, stoop, and lift up to 50 pounds
• Fluency to read and communicate in English
• Other related responsibilities as assigned