PURPOSE: |
Provide prompt, efficient and friendly customer service. Stock, rotate and replenish salad bar and ensure highest quality standards are met. Process deliveries, breaking load down onto stock carts or U-Boats, and transferring to salad bar. Comply with Company policies on freshness dating. Maintain clean work areas by consolidating and organizing product. |
WORKING RELATIONSHIPS: |
Accountable and Reports to: Store Director, Asst. Store Director, Produce/Perishable Manager |
PRIMARY JOB FUNCTIONS: |
Provides prompt, efficient and friendly customer service by exhibiting caring concern and patience in all customer interactions and treating customers as the most important people in the store. Smiles and greets customers in a friendly manner, whether the encounter takes place in the associate’s designated department or elsewhere in the store. Genuinely thanks each customer and invites them back. Assists customers by: (examples include) o escorting them to the products they’re looking for o securing products that are out of reacho loading or unloading heavy items o making note of and passing along customer suggestions or requests o performing other tasks in every way possible to enhance the shopping experience. Works with co-workers as a team to ensure customer satisfaction and a pleasant work environment. Answers the department telephone promptly and provides friendly, helpful service to customers who call; including taking product orders. Engages in suggestive selling and other sales techniques also anticipates and plans for seasonal selling opportunities. Understands and practices proper sanitation procedures and ensures the work area and salad bar is always clean and fresh. Processes incoming product deliveries by recording codes on perishable product, verifying product being received; unloading product and moving to designated storage areas according to "5S" standards. Ensures an adequate product supply is ready and on hand and develops or follows a production list. Ensures proper merchandising of product by understanding schematics, merchandising of advertised items, proper signage procedures, and meeting customer demands. Anticipates product needs for the salad bar on a daily basis. Culls the products in the salad bar; reviews the status and appearance of products for freshness and replenishes and rotates product. Cleans salad bar fixture, utensils, food preparation surfaces, floors, doors, walls, and storage areas according to sanitation schedule and standards. Removes trash in a timely manner. Disassembles and flattens packing boxes and loads disassembled boxes into the baler. Ensures storage space remains organized according to "5S" standards. Cuts, trims and wraps fruits and vegetables as necessary. Maintains strict adherence to department and company guidelines related to personal hygiene and dress. Adheres to all company policies, procedures, Safety and Sanitation regulations, and individual store guidelines. Reports to work when scheduled and on time. Checks invoices against delivered products and supplies. |