Company description

Cookbook specializes in super tasty, responsibly raised meats, cheeses & produce. We're committed to sourcing seasonally, locally and organically, to creating lasting partnerships with our farmers and producers, and to serving outstanding food that highlights these connections and high quality ingredients.

Job description

Cookbook Market in Echo Park is hiring immediately for buyers and a cook - as we are opening a second location in Highland Park in the spring, we have lots of opportunities to grow with our company.

We are looking for mature, knowledgeable, and genuinely friendly individuals to join our small, dedicated and professional crew on a full-time basis.  

We currently have 2 full-time positions available in our store: Cheese + Dairy Buyer and Meat + Fish Buyer.  (Please note that the Meat + Fish Buyer is not a butcher position.)  We are also seeking a full-time Cook to join our kitchen.

This is a fast-paced work environment, and we’re here to help people and to make the shop a place our customers want to come back to day after day.

Applicants must have a deep knowledge of food and cooking, and be able to answer detailed questions about all of our products, including meats and cheeses, as well as how to prepare and cook them. Applicants must love talking with people, must love hard work, and must know how to hustle in a fast-paced environment. Must be available weekends + nights.

We are looking for people who are:

• Available full-time, including nights and weekends
• Friendly, responsible, respectful, reliable, self-motivated and hard-working
• Passionate about food and cooking, and eager to learn more
• Excited about the local/sustainable food movement
• Food service/retail/farmers market/farmhand experience is ideal
• Able to lift 50 lbs

Cheese + Dairy applicants must have knowledge of cheese + dairy products.

Cheese + Dairy responsibilities include:

• All sourcing, purchasing, pricing and merchandising of cheese + dairy
• Communication, education and staff development related to cheese + dairy offerings
• Responsible for relaying pricing and product updates to staff
• Researching and suggesting new products
• Assisting customers in local, seasonal, or sustainably produced meat, cheese, grocery and prepared food selections
• Tending cash register
• Maintaining, organizing & stocking store shelves and cases
• Closing, stocking and cleaning the store

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Meat + Fish applicants must have knowledge of meat + fish products.

Meat + Fish responsibilities include:

• All sourcing, purchasing, pricing and merchandising of meat + fish
• Communication, education and staff development related to meat + fish offerings
• Responsible for relaying pricing and product updates to staff
• Researching and suggesting new products
• Assisting customers in local, seasonal, or sustainably produced meat, cheese, grocery and prepared food selections
• Tending cash register
• Maintaining, organizing & stocking store shelves and cases
• Closing, stocking and cleaning the store

BUYER COMPENSATION   these positions are PAID: hourly, rate varies DOE, up to $35,000/year + company matched health insurance + generous store discount

Cooking applicants

We are also looking for a mature, responsible, and avid Cook to join our small crew at our off-site kitchen on a full-time basis – schedule tbd, but will be 5 days in a row, 700am-300pm.

Compensation

this position is: hourly, varies DOE, $14.00 - $15.00

Application instructions

Deadline

no deadline