Position Details
Cafe Manager
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Summary
Gaia is looking to hire an experienced Café Manager to join the team and oversee the day-to-day operations of our onsite campus café. Regular cafe hours are between 7 am and 3 pm Monday through Friday. You would spend your work days in a beautifully constructed building where people take their meals outside when the weather permits and enjoy good food and drinks together. This is a unique opportunity to work in a corporate cafe during traditional business hours serving a consistent customer base on a daily basis providing breakfast and lunch. All cafe staff enjoy competitive compensation, plus full benefits including a 401K with a match.
To be successful as a café manager, you should demonstrate exemplary management and leadership skills and ensure that the café staff carries out all duties efficiently. Ultimately, an exceptional café manager should be able to achieve excellent customer service.
At Gaia, soft skills are key to success. We seek candidates with strong interpersonal abilities – effective communication, teamwork, prioritization, and problem solving – who can adapt to change, manage conflicts with empathy, and collaborate well with diverse teams. While technical skills matter, we highly value those who build positive relationships, contribute to a supportive culture, and approach challenges with a solution-oriented mindset. If this sounds like you, you’ll thrive in our dynamic environment.
Responsibilities
- Oversee daily operations and ensure smooth and efficient customer service.
- Recruiting, training, and supervising café staff.
- Coordinate with vendors and maintain inventory.
- Receiving delivered café supplies and verifying that the correct items and quantities have been delivered.
- Menu planning.
- Identifying strategies to retain and attract customers.
- Oversee the maintenance and repair of café equipment.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or certification in business administration or business management is advantageous.
- 3+ years of experience in cafe management preferred.
- A food handler’s license.
- Experience with sourcing organic produce.
- Sound knowledge of food health and safety regulations.
- Strong business acumen.
- Exemplary management skills.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills.
- Effective communication skills.
- Exceptional customer service skills.
- Proficiency in MS Word, Excel and other MS Window operations preferred
- Servsafe certifications preferred.
- Must be able to lift up to 30-40 lbs and be on your feet for a few hours at a time.
We are a professional and fun team that works with amazing products and customers everyday. We are excited to have a new member join us and help build the quickly growing Gaia Cafe.
Compensation
- Type: Salary
- Range: $70000 - $75000 (USD)
More About Gaia
Gaia exists as a transformational network to empower a global conscious community.
Gaia (Nasdaq: GAIA) is a publicly traded company in Louisville, Colorado. We offer global video streaming of over 8,000 original series, shows, films, documentaries, and practices for conscious living to our members in over 190 countries. Our vast video library serves as a vessel for the community we seek to empower. We are not a subscription service that streams whatever pays our bills. Our content goes deep into select niches of Seeking Truth, Transformation, Alternative Health and Yoga channels. We often cover subjects that other media companies won’t touch.
We expect you did explore Gaia’s library of original shows, documentaries, and films. If our work on ancient wisdom, who are we, our true history, coverups, and metaphysics resonates, you might be a good fit for Gaia. We seek to hire and inspire employees who embrace our mission to empower a global conscious community, who hope their work empowers our community of inspired members, to be a catalyst of transformation. The best work we do every day is to remember our vision is “to empower the evolution of consciousness.”
The perks of working collaboratively with a team dedicated to sharing this mission include an on-site gym; a beautiful solar-powered campus, complete with hiking and running trails, community garden, and a labyrinth; and an on-site, mostly organic café that serves breakfast and lunch daily including a full-service espresso bar featuring locally roasted coffee.
Full-time employees are offered alternative and traditional medical benefits including preventative coverage; as well as dental, vision, 401K, and life insurance.