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Position: FOH Cafe Manager
Need: Full-Time / Daytime
Team: Service / FOH
Location: Orleans, MA

Job Description

Sunbird is seeking a full-time Café Manger to join our daytime service team. This person is organized, motivated, detail-driven, and thrives in a fast-paced environment. As part of our leadership team, they help bring about the best outcomes for our business, our guests, and our flock. Their dependability, versatility, and sense of responsibility echos the mindset of our team commitment to be exceptional every day.

Along with Sunbird ownership, our Café Manager will help train, guide and inspire our team, while ensuring exceptional customer care is maintained at every opportunity. 

Responsibilities

  • Model and support a culture of thoughtful leadership with relentless care and positivity

  • Effectively manage a team of 5-10 employees without oversight

  • Ensure exceptional customer service is the first priority of all cafe staff at all times

  • Motivate and inspire our team to see more and be more

  • When managing — questioning and confirming everything, while assuming nothing

  • Solve problems and resolve customer and staff conflicts or contention

  • Hiring / Releasing staff as needed 

  • Work various FOH stations as needed — counter/register, barista, food runner, even dishes if needed

  • Training / Staff development / Staff education — customer service, product knowledge, food/drink prep and assembly, enrichment events

  • Help lead our coffee & beverage program - ordering product, maintaining high standards, planning and implementing seasonal changes

  • Product quality/freshness control and oversight

  • Proactive cleaning and organizing of FOH refrigeration, storage, dining room, etc.


Qualifications

  • 2+ years of cafe and/or restaurant experience is required (management experience is preferred, but having the right personal attributes is far more desirable to us than experience alone)

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

  • A positive outlook, genuine interest in learning, sharing, growing, and evolving with a highly collaborative team

  • Barista experience is strongly desired, but not required

  • A propensity for mentoring, teaching and guiding others is essential

  • Ability to stay calm and maintain a positive attitude when it's busy and/or challenging

  • A willingness to be adaptable, receptive, and constructive; taking direction and guidance from ownership

  • Comfortable sharing ideas and information with management, even when their view may be different

  • Ability to create and maintain a staff schedule

  • Comfortable with Mac-based systems, Google G-drive,  spreadsheets and word processing

  • Comfortable with POS software (Square experience preferred)

  • Familiarity with Adobe InDesign is desirable, but not required

  • Able to regularly work 8 or more hours with repeated walking, bending, stretching and occasional lifting of food products and supplies up to 30 pounds


Pay & Benefits

This is a paid, salaried position.

Salary is competitive, based on 40-50 hour work week.

Benefits include paid time-off, opportunities for advancement, discounts on Sunbird products, employee meals, and working with a team of very passionate and talented professionals.


How to Apply

To be considered for this position, please email resume and cover letter to jaime@birdinthesun.com, or drop it by in person at Sunbird Cafe & Lounge in Orleans, MA.

We look forward to hearing from you!