Cheese Shop/Steward

Create an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service, establish and maintain a safe and clean environment, and achieve sales and profit goals.

What You Will Do

Promote trust and respect among associates, create an environment that enables customers to feel welcome, gain and maintain knowledge of products, offer product samples, and ensure freshness.

Why It Might Be a Fit

Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Requirements

• Promote trust and respect among associates
• Create an environment that enables customers to feel welcome, important and appreciated
• Gain and maintain knowledge of products sold within the department
• Offer product samples to help customers discover new items or products they inquire about
• Inform customers of cheese specials
• Provide customers with fresh products that they have ordered and the correct portion size to prevent shrink
• Measure, prepare and mix ingredients according to recipe
• Adequately prepare, package, label and inventory ingredients in merchandise
• Check product quality to ensure freshness
• Label, stock and inventory department merchandise
• Report product ordering/shipping discrepancies to the department manager
• Display a positive attitude
• Understand the store’s layout and be able to locate products when requested by customer
• Stay current with present, future, seasonal and special ads
• Maintain an awareness of inventory/stocking conditions note any discrepancies in inventory
• Adhere to all food safety regulations and guidelines
• Ensure proper temperatures in cases and coolers are maintained and temperature logs are maintained
• Reinforce safety programs by complying with safety procedures and identify unsafe conditions and notify store management
• Practice preventive maintenance by properly inspecting equipment and notify appropriate department or store manager of any items in need of repair
• Notify management of customer or employee accidents
• Report all safety risk, or issues and illegal activity, including: robbery, theft or fraud