Frye's Leap General Store and Cafe

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Currently recruiting for the season that runs from May 12th, 2025 to October 17th, 2025.

General Store
Barista/Cashier
$16.00 / hour + tips
Frye Island, Sebago Lake, Maine
Provide friendly, responsive service to create an exceptional dining experience for all guests by taking orders, making recommendations when appropriate, processing payments, and serving food or beverages to customers at the counter or table. Also perform other duties in the areas of food and final order preparation including preparing beverages and arranging food items.
General duties and responsibilities include:
• Promote, work, and act in a manner consistent with the mission of Frye’s Leap General Store and Cafe
• Receive and process guest payments.
• Prepare or serve hot or cold beverages, such as coffee, espresso drinks, blended coffees, or teas.
• Take guest orders and convey them to other employees for preparation.
• Provide guest with product details, such as coffee blend or preparation descriptions.
• Describe menu items to guest or suggest products that might appeal to them.
• Serve prepared foods, such as breakfast sandwiches, muffins and pastries.
• Prepare or serve menu items, such as acai bowls or egg bites.
• Clean or sanitize work areas, utensils, or equipment.
• Clean service or seating areas.
• Set up or restock product displays.
• Weigh, grind, or pack coffee beans for guest.
• Stock guest service stations with paper products or beverage preparation items.
• Wrap, label, or date food items for sale.
• Take out garbage.
• Order, receive, or stock supplies or retail products.
• Slice fruits, vegetables, desserts, or meats for use in food service.
• Check temperatures of freezers, refrigerators, or heating equipment to ensure proper functioning.
• Demonstrate the use of retail equipment, such as espresso machines.
• Attend all scheduled employee meetings and offers suggestions for improvement.
• Coordinate with and assist fellow employees to meet guests’ needs and support the operation of the restaurant.
• Fill-in for fellow employees where needed to ensure guest service standards and efficient operations.
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Cafe
Line Cook
$18.00 / hour
We are a high-volume kitchen that serves burgers, sandwiches, flatbreads, salads and a variety of dinner items. The stations include prep, grill, fry, boards/bowls, saute and expo. Our busy restaurant is looking for experienced line cooks who can prepare meals as per our standard recipes.  Line cook responsibilities include creating meal portions, cleaning food, cooking meals and keeping a sanitized work area.  The successful candidate will have two or more years of prior food service experience, an excellent work ethic, good communication skills, be a team player and have a commitment to quality. Hourly rates of up to $18 per hour or more are based on prior experience.
 
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General Store
Assistant Store Manager
$20.00 / hour
The Assistant Store Manager works as part of a management team that oversees and coordinates the operations of the general store.  The Store Manager is responsible for helping to maintain the condition of the store in a manner to produce maximum customer satisfaction and store profitability.  The store manager assures appropriate inventory levels, merchandising and staff productivity, including training and supervising employees.  The store manager promptly alerts the owners as issues are detected and suggests corrective actions.
General duties and responsibilities include:
• Motivate, encourage and mentor store employees to build a team that delivers a high level of customer satisfaction through excellent customer service.
• Assure that all merchandise is stocked and displays are attractive, priced correctly and displayed appropriately.  Utilize daily sales reports to accurately restock merchandise. 
• Assure that merchandising and organizing activities are performed throughout the day as business activities level permit.
• Assure that all food service areas and displays are clean, orderly and products fresh.
• Monitor inventory levels of clothing and other gift merchandise, recommending restocking purchases as necessary.
• Receive product deliveries, stock and store as appropriate, and assure accuracy with delivery invoices.
• Assist in the receipt and inventorying of clothing deliveries.  Confirm delivery counts, label received goods and properly store.
• Assure that remote inventory is properly stored and organized.
• Address and resolve customer issues and concerns in a timely and professional matter.  Provide feedback to owners on noted issues.
• Alert owners to observed trends in store performance such as fast moving items, slow moving items, frequently requested items, etc. 
• Propose ideas to improve customer satisfaction and store profitability based on observed trends.
• Assure the financial accuracy of the cash register, credit card batch and store bank.
• Have in depth knowledge of all store policies, procedures, and standards.
  • Make recommendations where changes are required to existing policies, procedures and standards in order to improve service standards.
  • Identify, propose and document new policies, procedures and standards were gaps exist.
  • Develop necessary checklists for consistent execution of daily operating procedures assuring that store is clean, organized and adequately stocked.
  • Administer prompt, fair and consistent corrective action for all violations of company policies, procedures and standards.
• Supervise and assure that all employees are trained in and act consistently with policy, procedures and standards. 
• Other duties as assigned.
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Store
Store Clerk
$18.00 / hour
Our store offers beer, wine, gifts, groceries, and sundries. The store employee is an important customer facing role.  This role interacts with our customers throughout the day, helping them to find merchandise, answer questions and ring up sales.  Responsibilities include customer sales (working the cash register/point of sale terminal), stocking inventory, folding and organizing clothes, and answering customer questions.  While this role is based in the General Store, it is important to also learn about the Café and the Café operations as many of the customer questions will be regarding the restaurant.  As work load permits, the successful candidate will also have the opportunity to be trained in other positions in the business and have the opportunity to work additional hours.  Hourly salary starts at $18.00 per hour with the opportunity for raises based on performance or prior work experience.
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