Cafe & Butcher Shop Chef The Meat Market
- Date Posted April 01, 2015
- Location Great Barrington, MA
- Category Culinary
- Job Type Full-Time
Are you a passionate chef, eager to create delicious meals and prepared foods from local, pasture-raised meats? Are you excited about joining a tight-knit team providing exceptional customer experiences in a town with a vibrant farm-to-table culture? The Meat Market is currently seeking an experienced, enthusiastic and hardworking individual to join our team as a Cafe & Butcher Shop Chef.
The Meat Market is a whole-animal butcher shop and cafe in Great Barrington, MA — Smithsonian Magazine's 2012 Best Small Town in America. We purchase whole animals raised on pasture from small, local farms. We handle the processing of these animals in-house, from old-world butchering to sausage-making and charcuterie, as well as preparing ready-made soups, pies, and all manner of specialty craft items. Our cafe provides simple, delicious lunches and other prepared foods on a daily basis, with an emphasis on the unusual cuts that come from whole-animal butchery.
The responsibilities of our Cafe & Butcher Shop Chef include:
- Providing excellent lunch service through our cafe — about 30 lunches per day — from a rotating menu of standard items and daily specials.
- Preparing a consistent supply of delicious value-added products for sale through our shop, including stocks, soups, prepared foods, pickles, preserves, rendered cooking fats, and more.
- Ordering and maintaining inventory of all non-meat foods.
- Providing friendly, enthusiastic and expert service to our customers, including learning about our many fresh cuts and other products to pitch in on the retail side as needed.
- Assisting with preparation for our catering company, Fire Roasted Catering, as necessary.
- have significant experience in a professional kitchen.
- are motivated self-starters, able to handle significant responsibility.
- are passionate about food, with a drive to learn more and cook creatively.
- work well in a small, tight-knit team.
- work quickly, efficiently, and neatly, and take pride in a tidy, clean workspace.
- are able to meet the physical demands of a job that will require 8+ hour shifts on your feet and occasional lifting of up to 50 lb.
- will not be squeamish about working with whole animal carcasses.