About the Role
The Cafe Attendant will be responsible for serving all products with friendly, individualized attention towards each customer, educating customers about our premium food & beverage offerings, and fulfilling any other duties the Service Manager assigns while representing a professional manner.
Responsibilities
- Ensures that all customers are educated on our products and services.
- Maintains the highest quality, consistent product standards, elevated service.
- Follows all Company beverage recipes and procedures.
- Passes monthly re-certifications in a timely manner.
- Develops an understanding of coffee and tea regions and the various differences in flavor and blends.
- Curates weekly beverage specials and collaborates with onsite team to thoughtfully pair specials with programming.
- Proficiently prepares espresso and tea beverages.
- Greets all customers with fast, friendly, personalized service and develops a rapport with customers by learning their names, favorite drinks and food items.
- Verbally receives and calls back customer orders in a friendly manner.
- Reports all customer complaints to manager on duty.
- Responds proactively to prevent customer service situations.
- Answers customer questions regarding coffee beverage preparation, and menu item preparation and ingredients.
- Weighs, grinds and packs coffee per customers’ orders according to Company guidelines.
- Sells and serves baked goods and miscellaneous food items to customers.
- Displays and restocks all food items for customers to purchase.
- Maintains efficient, friendly service.
- Restocks paper goods and other miscellaneous service items as needed.
- Routinely cleans the bar area, floor, windows and grinders, and takes out trash, etc.
- Delivers food orders to coinciding tables and customers, while maintaining steps of service standards.
- Works closely with the Culinary team to ensure food orders are being delivered in a timely manner.
- Completes side work as assigned and as necessary.
- Assists in the distribution of weekly shipments.
- Responsible for bussing, maintaining and cleaning common areas and shared meeting rooms within the Cafe area.
- Reports potential safety hazards to the manager on duty.
- Reports all employee accidents to the manager on duty.
- Informs the manager on duty of any operational inconsistencies.
Requirements
- Maintains positive company morale and professional attitude
- Excellent verbal and written skills
- Well-organized and detail-oriented
- Regularly required to lift and/or move items up to 30 pounds
- Must be able to adjust vision to both day and night lighting and be able to focus on distant and close-range projects
- Regularly required to handle food and hot beverages
- Strong Coffee Knowledge – ability to train and develop peers
Skills
- Coffee Knowledge
- Customer Service
- Food Handling
- Beverage Preparation
- Point of Sale (POS) System Operation
- Teamwork
- Communication Skills
Location
- Midtown Manhattan
Work Type
- Full-time
Salary/Compensations
- $21.00/ hour + Overtime Eligible
- Eligible for Convene's annual incentive performance bonus plan.
Benefits
- Day-one health coverage for you and your family
- 24/7 virtual care
- Emotional well-being support
- Fertility & family planning benefits
- Generous PTO
- Birthday off
- Paid parental leave
- Year-end holiday closure
- 401K with company match
- Support for education, courses, and certifications
- Ongoing career growth opportunities
- Recognition programs
- Volunteer and give-back opportunities
About the Company
- Convene Hospitality Group (CHG) operates a global portfolio of lifestyle brands focused on creating places and experiences that bring people together.
- The company designs, develops, and operates hospitality-driven destinations to host gatherings of all kinds, ranging from small corporate meetings to immersive brand activations and beyond.
- We love bringing people together in person, and that passion for great experiences extends to our employees as well.
- If you're interested in creating inspiring moments of connection, consider joining our team.
Equal Opportunity
- Convene Hospitality Group is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
