FT Kitchen Lead for fast paced coffeebar + kitchen DriveThru Concept

This is a job for people who love people and love taking care of people.

This job is fast paced, requires high speed food build and preparation, decision making and working well with others as a tight knit team. Its a job for people that love to work collaboratively to ensure customers are highly satisfied and teammates are supported. Its high energy, fun, challenging and satisfying.

We prepare breakfast sandwiches, lunch sandwiches, toasts, oats, smoothies/shakes, acai bowls, salads/buddha bowls, etc... all of which are highly customizable and made fresh. We operate a cafe and Kitchen + drive thru so are looking for someone who can prep and execute our menu with a high level of precision, quickly. Additionally we have built out our kitchen staff to regularly 3 part staffing and anticipate the staff dedicated to food growing as the business continues to ramp so there will be opportunity for multiple head count management and expanded function.

We are also looking for someone with the potential to develop and partner with us on ordering and inventory, purchasing, menu and flavor creation on both the coffee and kitchen sides of the business, food operations, training and potentially multi-unit support. This is a gateway job to potentially significantly more for the right candidate. Come learn and grow this with us now and have an opportunity to be a critical piece to our infrastructure as we scale out working directly with the owner operators.

Prep responsibilities include creating beverage syrups, beverage sauces, proprietary beverage powders and other craft components in addition to food prep: mixing proprietary sauces, deli meats, fruits and vegetables, smoothie components, acai, overnight oats, variety of cold tea and coffee toddy's, etc....

Gladly Coffee is an emerging coffee concept in the San Diego Market. Built by former baristas who get it, at its core is a desire to deliver great high quality boutique products in the cup and on the plate to our community alongside genuine, real customer care. We are a coffeebar with kitchen + Drive Thru. We are a community meeting place. We have a burgeoning art and music scene.

You: smart, fast, experienced as a line cook, cafe cook or other relevant food background. You are genuine, taking care of people gets you up in the morning are looking for something for a couple of years or career. A great smile. We have a great team and are looking for someone to come make us better!

The coffee/food scene is changing and there are incredible opportunities to career in coffee/food especially joining us now as we build out this amazing people and flavor focused concept. Respond with a resume and availability.

Gladly Coffee provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Gladly Coffee is growing and we are adding additional team members to our food staff. We are a locally owned, independent coffee business.