# Chef Instructor (Sur La Table)

**Company**: Sur La Table
**Location**: Glendale, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: $20.31 - $21.61 an hour
**Category**: Retail
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

As a Chef Instructor at Sur La Table, you are the in-store expert and advocate for education.

You deliver exceptional service by sharing product knowledge, brewing techniques, knife skills, and personalized instruction.

The Chef Instructor plays a key role in driving sales of espresso machines, coffee makers, coffee grinders, knife skills, and cooks tools through active demonstrations, coffee classes, and knife skills classes.

**Key Responsibilities**

**Customer Experience & Brand Representation**

- Represent Sur La Table's brand and culture by creating memorable, educational experiences that inspire repeat visits and customer loyalty.

- Lead engaging and informative culinary and coffee-focused demonstrations that showcase expertise and elevate the in-store experience.

- Deliver high-quality, hands-on classes that teach fundamental and advanced cooking techniques, including essential knife skills.

- Educate customers on various brewing methods, including pour-over, French Press, AeroPress, espresso, and cold brew.

- Guide customers in selecting coffee beans based on flavor profiles, roast levels, and origin.

**Sales & Business Performance**

- Promote and sell cooking tools, coffee products, equipment, and accessories as part of class experiences and demos.

- Support the store in achieving revenue goals by driving customer engagement and conversion through education.

- Consistently meet or exceed monthly sales goals, contributing to overall store revenue.

**Team Engagement & Store Support**

- Partner with store leaders to ensure alignment between culinary programming and store priorities.

- Collaborate on merchandising strategies that highlight key tools and products featured in classes.

**Operations & Compliance**

- Ensure compliance with food safety standards, local health codes, and sanitation regulations.

- Properly handle all tools, ingredients, and kitchen equipment to maintain a safe and efficient work environment.

- Maintain accurate inventory levels, minimize shrink, and control supply and culinary expenses.

- Ensure store safety and cleanliness, addressing any maintenance needs promptly.

**Physical Requirements**

- Ability to communicate verbally and work cooperatively with associates and customers.

- Ability to remain standing for up to 4 hours at a time.

- Ability to move about the store directing class participants while selling to customers and retrieving merchandise from stockroom or sales floor.

- Capability to accurately perceive and differentiate variations in intensity or quality of flavors or odors.

- Ability to grab, reach, push, pull, bend, stoop, kneel, and crouch to retrieve and replenish merchandise.

- Ability to lift and/or move merchandise weighing up to 50 lbs.

- Ability to ascend/descend ladders to retrieve and/or move merchandise.

- Ability to operate a computer, POS system, keyboards, merchandise scanners, and mouse.

- Available to work between 12 and 16 hours per week, with a flexible schedule, including nights, weekends, and holidays.

**Qualifications & Experience**

- Must be 21 years of age or older.

- A degree in culinary arts is preferred; however, candidates with extensive culinary experience and demonstrated technical proficiency will be considered.

- 1-2 years of kitchen operations experience.

- Valid Food Manager Certification.

- Excellent communication, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.

- Passion for community engagement and providing exceptional customer experiences.

- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and retail systems preferred.

## Skills

### Required
- food safety
- knife skills
- brewing techniques
- customer service

### Nice to have
- Microsoft Office Suite
- retail systems

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