Food Service Ambassador - Cosentino's #117 660 E. Main St.
On-siteGardner, Kansas, United States
Job Summary
Greet customers, prepare food for sampling and selling, and answer questions about product recipes and ingredients while promoting sales through active engagement. Operate small appliances, transport items between coolers and demo stations, and maintain a clean, clutter-free selling area. Unload or load carts, make decisions on product display to enhance visual appeal, and ensure all safety, sanitation, and health regulations are followed. Wear sanitary gloves, heat products to correct temperatures, and lift or push objects up to 10 lbs while standing and walking on hard surfaces. Obtain a food handling permit within 14 days of employment and complete ongoing training.
Required Qualifications
- A food handling permit
- Completion of ongoing training and development
- Strong communication skills
- A keen understanding of selling techniques
- The ability to build brand awareness
- The ability to provide an outstanding customer experience
- A highly energetic and self-motivated individual
- A passion for food
- A knack for sales
- A high school diploma or equivalent
- The ability to greet and assist customers and co-workers in a courteous manner
- The ability to prepare food for sampling and selling
- Familiarity with the items being sampled or sold
- The ability to accurately and courteously answer customer questions
- Knowledge of product location
- Knowledge of the recipe/ingredients of the product
- The ability to make decisions concerning product display
- The ability to unload or load carts
- The ability to operate and maintain small appliances
- The ability to transport product from coolers, freezers or shelf to demo/food selling station
- The ability to keep demo station/food selling station clean/free of trash and clutter
- The ability to always wear sanitary gloves when sampling or selling product
- The ability to always heat products to the correct temperature
- Knowledge and implementation of the Cosentino's Customer Service Standards
- Understanding, compliance and practice of all health regulations, sanitation guidelines and safety procedures
- The ability to assure the safety of self, customers and co-workers
- Strong verbal and interpersonal skills
- Basic math and reading skills
- The ability to promote sales by engaging with all customers
- The ability to offer product and suggest additional products
- The ability to offer samples
- The ability to complete additional tasks identified by management
- The ability to assist other stores or departments as needed
- The ability to gain new skills when necessary
- The ability to reach, twist at the waist and lift objects with both hands weighing up to 10 lbs
- The ability to push and pull Demo Cart/Food selling station and grocery items to the proper locations as needed, up to a peak force of 10 lbs
- The ability to stand and walk for long periods of time on tile, asphalt, concrete or other hard surfaces
- The ability to occasionally lift and carry up to 10 lbs
- The ability to bend and squat, at times all the way to floor level
- The ability to work in colder conditions of the grocery coolers and freezers
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