Hello and thank you for your interest in joining Cookery! Please let us know if you think you are a good fit to join the Cookery team. Please send your resume here - qualified applicants will be selected for a phone screening before an interview. Thank you!
Retail Sales Consultant & Class Assistant
Cookery is a specialty kitchenware store & cooking class studio open in West Toronto's Roncesvalles and Bloor West neighbourhoods, East Toronto's Leslieville and North Toronto's Yonge & Eglinton area. We have a beautiful selection of both everyday and heirloom items to offer passionate home cooks, and cooking-inspired gift givers in our neighbourhoods.
We offer a range of items that offer high performance and enduring quality to add quality tools and beauty to the kitchens of Toronto's home cooks. In addition, we run a boutique cooking school in-store, providing classes in everything from basic foundational skills (knife skills, pastry making) to beautiful 3 course meals with wine pairings.
Cookery is an exciting place to work - every day is a bit different, the store teams are friendly and all love to talk about food, and we’ll help you build your own cookware collection with a healthy employee discount. While assisting our Instructor Chefs during cooking classes, you’ll be sure to learn new recipes and techniques from around the globe.
Job Description:
This is a full-time position supporting both the retail operations and cooking class execution, including evenings and weekends, about 40 hrs per week. This role is ideally suited to an outgoing people-person who loves to cook and entertain, but also understands that organizing, dusting, and putting out the garbage are just things that come with daily life. There are a lot of stairs at Cookery, with frequent trips up and down carrying boxes and bags, this has to sound good for you, your knees, and your back! The ideal candidate will excel at customer service and strive to be helpful and thoughtful when dealing with our clients.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Quickly become a content expert in product knowledge, features and benefits, pros and cons, of our selection of over 500+ products
- Engage with customers to understand their cooking and gifting needs, identify the right products to meet those needs, sharing culinary experience, expertise, and ideas as needed.
- Complete sales transactions and package merchandise, with gifting in mind where appropriate.
- Prepare packaging and shipments for online store transactions.
- Assist the manager with effective store merchandising & inventory management.
- Assist the manager with various opening and closing activities, including, but not limited to, sales reporting, banking, opening/closing the store, store maintenance and cleaning.
- Assist the Instructor Chef in executing cooking classes, including, but not limited to:
- preparing the space prior to class
- preparing class materials and setup
- welcoming participants and representing Cookery during class
- assisting the Chef with tasks such as food prep, plating, organizing and cleaning
- cleaning up after class (in partnership with the cleaning team who arrives after class)
- preparing the space for morning retail post-class
Qualifications:
- RETAIL 'KITCHEN STORE' EXPERIENCE - A STRONG ASSET
- 2+ years in Retail Sales (ie. specialty foods, premium goods, other)
- Passionate about cooking and the great tools and wares available to enhance cooking & entertaining - a 'serious home cook'
- Enjoy discussing food and kitchen trends, reading and/or writing cooking and food blogs
- Have a flare for retail and great customer service - you enjoy talking to people about their cooking routines and kitchen needs - with patience, positive energy, and down to earth approachability
- Able to go up/down stairs many times per day as well as lifting and carrying inventory.
- Great with detail, highly organized, comfortable with iPad point-of-sale system, happy to troubleshoot a printer malfunction or wifi connection
- Food Handling Certification & Smart Serve an asset - to be completed upon hiring
- You are what your friends and family refer to as 'a really nice person' (this is critical!)
Retail Sales Consultant – Student (Year-round)
Cookery is a specialty kitchenware store & cooking class studio open in West Toronto's Roncesvalles and Bloor West neighbourhoods, East Toronto's Leslieville and North Toronto's Yonge & Eglinton area. We have a beautiful selection of both everyday and heirloom items to offer passionate home cooks, and cooking-inspired gift givers in our neighbourhoods.
We offer a range of items that offer high performance and enduring quality to add quality tools and beauty to the kitchens of Toronto's home cooks. In addition, we run a boutique cooking school in-store, providing classes in everything from basic foundational skills (knife skills, pastry making) to beautiful 3 course meals with wine pairings.
Cookery is an exciting place to work - every day is a bit different, the store teams are friendly and all love to talk about food, and we’ll help you build your own cookware collection with a healthy employee discount.
A year-round position with a minimum of two days per week during the school year and more hours during the Summer. Must be available on weekends.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Greet all customers with a cheerful attitude and engage customers to understand their cooking and gifting needs
- Be passionate regarding learning about product knowledge, features and benefits, pros and cons, of our selection of over 500+ products
- Complete sales transactions and package merchandise, with gifting in mind where appropriate.
- Assist the manager with effective store merchandising & inventory management.
- Assist in maintaining a clean and well-organized store and stockroom
Qualifications
- Previous Retail experience an asset
- Passionate about cooking and food
- Enjoy discussing food and kitchen trends, reading and/or writing cooking and food blogs
- Have a flare for retail and great customer service - you enjoy talking to people about their cooking routines and kitchen needs - with patience, positive energy, and down to earth approachability
- Able to go up/down stairs many times per day as well as lifting and carrying inventory.
- Great with detail, highly organized, comfortable with iPad point-of-sale system
- You are what your friends and family refer to as 'a really nice person' (this is critical!)
Please forward your resume and a quick introduction by clicking here. Please specify which location(s) you would like to work at.