# Seasonal Chef Instructor (Sur La Table) **Company**: Sur La Table **Location**: Tampa, FL **Work arrangement**: onsite **Job type**: part-time **Category**: Hospitality **Industry**: Retail **Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/cscgeneration-2/e61fce6d-2ce9-4d89-bf32-1311e50a9577?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_fbd3fca0-031 ## Description As a Seasonal Chef Instructor at Sur La Table, you are the in-store expert and advocate for the culinary arts, with a specialty in savory cooking, pastry and baking, or both. 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. - Deliver exceptional in-store culinary experiences through savory, pastry, and baking classes that reflect Sur La Table’s passion for food, teaching, and high standards. - Communicate technical cooking concepts, savory techniques, and pastry skills in a clear, encouraging, and approachable manner. - Maintain expertise by staying current on products, actively engaging in available training, and independently seeking out additional resources. - Sales & Business Performance: Drive sales by upholding kitchen standards, encouraging second class sign-ups through strong customer engagement, and promoting retail items used or featured in class. - Deliver class revenue goals by ensuring high enrollment, positive reviews, and guest return rates. - Consistently meet or exceed culinary program goals by delivering exceptional classes that drive customer engagement and sales. - Team Engagement & Store Support: Assist in setting up and breakdown of classes including organizing mise en place, prepping ingredients, and cleaning workstations. - Clean and sanitize dishes and equipment promptly to ensure smooth kitchen operations. - Assist with restocking, organizing, and maintaining kitchen supplies and tools to support overall store readiness. - 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. 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. - The capability to accurately perceive and differentiate variations in intensity or quality of flavors or odors, or to identify specific tastes or scents using the tongue or nose. - Ability to grab, reach, push, pull, bend, stoop, kneel and crouch to demonstrate, retrieve and/or replenish merchandise and/or cooking equipment. - Ability to use hands to seize, hold, grasp, turn, or otherwise to chop, whisk, slice, stir, juice and/or demonstrate other techniques. - 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 to accomplish work. - 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 at the time of employment. - A degree in culinary arts is preferred; however, candidates with extensive culinary experience and demonstrated technical proficiency will be considered in lieu of formal education. - Demonstrated proficiency in savory cooking, pastry and baking, or both. - 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. Associate Perks: - 401K after 90 days; must be 21 years of age - Employee Discount ## Skills ### Required - culinary arts - savory cooking - pastry and baking - food safety standards - Microsoft Office Suite ### Nice to have - extensive culinary experience - demonstrated technical proficiency --- Source: [Apply at jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/cscgeneration-2/e61fce6d-2ce9-4d89-bf32-1311e50a9577?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)