Cake Decorators

European Bakery and Café is a premier bakery/fast casual restaurant, which serves European style artisan cakes, pastries, breads, coffees, and bistro sandwiches.

We are seeking a highly motivated, high energy, individual for the position of cake decorator with a desire to learn and grow. This is a great position for someone who loves to bake and cares about creating beautiful pastries. We want someone who can help us build the brand, develop others, and deliver results.

Job Description: Create and decorate all types of cakes for any occasion, cupcakes, cookies, pasties, and other products. Sell bakery products, including cakes, all occasion cakes, cupcakes, snack cakes, pastries and other products. This position requires excellent time management and the ability to work quickly and well under pressure.

The job responsibilities include and not limited to:

• Creating all varieties of cakes and cake products, by special order of using standard company styles and patterns.

• Answering phones and taking customer orders, ensuring orders are completed on time and to the customer’s satisfaction.

• Maintaining a positive and friendly attitude towards customers and fellow team members.

• Engaging with customers with greetings, offering product information, providing selling suggestions and giving a genuine thank you.

• Maintaining bakery department’s image for the highest quality and freshness.

• Controlling freshness by coding all products, rotating them and pulling any out-of-code merchandise daily.

• Understanding the importance of and monitoring product pricing, signage, and placement as well as the use of product shelf tags and shelf signage.

• Keeping a clean, neat and orderly check stand/sales counter and work production areas.

• Displaying baked goods following bakery department and/or merchandising guidelines.

• Taking customer orders, ensuring orders are completed on time and to the customer’s satisfaction.

• Performs other duties as needed or assigned by management. Must be at least 18-years old and have 1-year of experience.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• With both customers and team members, remain helpful, tactful and courteous at all times. A strong work ethic and a resilient attitude.

• Work quickly and efficiently, sometimes with little direction, to accomplish assigned duties.

• Consistently and with artistry and flair, help create quality bakery items by decorating special occasion cakes, snack cakes, breads, and pastries.

• Use all necessary decorating tools and equipment including: decorating spatulas, piping/pastry bags, decorating tips, air brush machines. Able to use all mediums available to decorate.

• Proficiency in aspects of baking - prepping and making various pastries/bread, daily/weekly maintenance, etc.

• Stand for long periods of time, bend and twist, and frequently lift and/or maneuver merchandise and supplies.

• Ability of lifting up to 50 lbs.

• Work in walk-in coolers and freezers and around hot ovens.

• Work with bakery ingredients including various flours, spices, nuts, flavorings and oils.

European Bakery and Café is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture. European Bakery and Café does not discriminate on the basis of disability, veteran status or any other basis protected under federal, state or local laws. Expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information or veteran status.