Forecast Coffee Careers
Cafe Manager - Main St
Description
The role of Cafe Manager is an essential part of our business in all of our locations. As the manager, you believe in our social purpose and company vision, and drive your team and store success using these principles. You embody and live the Forecast core values and strive to apply these to all duties within your role.
“Forecast Coffee exists to create space to feed the soul, igniting our collective passion for each other, our community, and the outdoors.”
We're eager to find the right person who has the experience to be able to lead a team of baristas and bring the Forecast vision to life.
Main Role Duties:
Café/Bar Daily Operations:
- Managing the café/bar while on shift; being an exceptional leader to your team
- Scheduling staff and managing labour
- Preparing and serving coffee, food and drinks, clearing tables, washing dishes – getting dirty and leading by example
- Creating a welcoming, safe and inclusive environment for staff and customers
- Managing stock, inventory and ordering so we can continue to make our customers happy
Administrative Operations:
- Financial Management – meeting or exceeding set budgets
- Community Engagement – Active involvement in community events, building positive relationships in the neighborhood.
- Social Purpose – considering environmental and social impact when making decisions for the store.
- Communication – professional, respectful, and prompt communication with all team members, suppliers, and stakeholders.
- Training will be provided – however experience in some (or all) of these aspects will be considered a great asset.
Specific Duties
This role comes with the following specific duties:
- Hiring, firing and discipline
- Providing all team members with fulsome basic training following Forecast Training Program
- Ongoing development plans for team skill improvement and regular one-on-one meetings with team
- Quarterly all-hands staff meeting
- Creating profitable weekly schedules (weekly)
- Approving vacation and time off requests according to business needs
- Bank reconciliations and cash drops (every 2 weeks)
- Approving hours and tip reports (weekly Monday)
- Perform Café Health Check (weekly)
- Monitoring / adjusting weekly task list and delegating to team to ensure everything on list gets done to appropriate level
- Reporting maintenance issues and booking service according to schedules or needs
- Weekly inventory to assist with accurate ordering (orders Monday and Thursday)
- Receiving orders, checking for accuracy and entering to Yellow Dog system
- Month end inventory (last week of month)
- Managing regular communication to the team
- Manage in-store events program by meeting with event leaders, planning operations and bringing event ideas to life
- Maintain a record keeping procedure for all certification and licenses
- Attend weekly all-hand Manager meeting – collate data and bring ideas and issues to solve
- Identifying areas of improvement and bring to Leadership to discuss and resolve
Why Work With Us?
Because we are a young, passionate company with fantastic coffee! And, we offer a great compensation package including an incentive bonus, extended health benefits, cell phone allowance and daily tips/gratuities. We encourage a healthy work/life balance, including flexible hours, free meals on shift and discounts across all of our stores.
Also… We welcome employee input and provide a fun, safe, inclusive and supportive work environment for all. We love what we do and want our staff to feel the same way.
For more on who we are and what we love, check us out at forecastcoffee.ca
Hourly Wage: from $28.00 per hour PLUS TIPS
Compensation
$27.00 - $30.00 per hour