About the Role
Adams employees are expected to provide friendly service, ensuring each experience reflects the commitment to providing quality products. For the Kitchen Associate I, this means providing dependable support in food preparation, maintaining a clean and organized work environment, following safety and quality standards, and working efficiently to help ensure fresh, high-quality products are ready for customers.
Responsibilities
- Provide friendly, knowledgeable service and assist customers with orders in person and over the phone
- Stock, rotate, and label products to ensure freshness, quality, and appealing displays
- Keep the hot bar, cold cases, and salad bar full, clean, and up to quality standards
- Monitor product levels and communicate with cooks when items run low
- Receive, weigh, and store deliveries accurately
- Maintain cleanliness in all areas, including dishes, counters, cases, and prep spaces
- Prioritize customer assistance over tasks to ensure a positive shopping experience
Requirements
- Must be 18 years old
- Consistently move, adjust, and position items weighing up to 50 pounds
- Ability to remain in a stationary position for duration of shift
- Safely operate and use knives, slicer, and any other equipment needed to operate the department
- Occasionally ascend/descend a stepstool, stepladder, and/or ladder
- Repeating motions that may include the wrists, hands and/or fingers for duration of shift
- Communicate with others to exchange information
- Moving self in different positions to accomplish tasks including in tight and confined spaces
- Be able to concentrate on tasks in order to avoid injury and waste of product
Skills
- Knowledge and willingness to learn the inter-workings of the Kitchen
- Able to bring a friendly and helpful environment to all customers
- Ability to demonstrate and set the example for Adams’ culture and values
- Willingness to work collaboratively and communicate with a team of co-workers and managers
- Exhibit enthusiasm, positivity and/or knowledge about Adams’ products and quality
Benefits
- Generous medical, dental and vision coverage (for applicable roles)
- Voluntary benefits like pet insurance
- Paid time off and holiday pay
- Flexible pay schedules with DailyPay
- Generous Employee Discount
About the Company
- At Adams, we prioritize creating a warm and welcoming environment for both our customers and team members.
- We believe exceptional customer service goes beyond meeting needs—it’s about treating everyone with genuine respect, kindness, and appreciation.
- Each team member is expected to greet customers personally, serve them with friendly, polite, and knowledgeable assistance, and always put customer needs above other tasks.
- We value a workplace where employees treat each other with the same courtesy and respect as our customers, fostering a collaborative and supportive atmosphere that reflects our commitment to service excellence.
