Wicker Park - Core Team Membersweetgreen • Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60601

Wicker Park - Core Team Member

sweetgreen • Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60601

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Wicker Park - Core Team Member

A Healthier Future Starts With You!

As a Sweetgreen Team Member, you'll be an ambassador for our mission : building healthier communities by connecting people to real food. Whether you're focused on customer experience, food preparation, or station organization, you'll have the support to create experiences our customers will love.

Join our movement to rewrite the future of fast foodand grow your own future too. Top-performing Team Members can advance to General Manager in as little as 36 months.

What Youll Do :

Deliver exceptional hospitality while supporting smooth restaurant operationsfrom greeting customers and sharing menu knowledge to ensuring a positive experience at every touchpoint.

Essential Functions

Food Preparation : Includes portioning, mixing, squeezing, chopping, and prepping ingredients.
Line Operation : Build salads quickly and accurately, ensuring correct portions and presentation.
Customer Interaction : Greeting guests, taking orders, answering questions, and delivering a friendly and efficient service experience.
Sanitation + Cleaning : Maintain a clean and organized workspace, adhering to food safety and hygiene standards at all times.
Tool + Equipment Handling : Safely operate kitchen tools and equipment (including knives, robot coupe, blenders, thermometers, dish machines, and POS systems).
Inventory Support : Restock and rotate ingredients and supplies as needed throughout service and prep shifts.
Team Communication : Use of clear verbal cues (knife, behind) to ensure team coordination and workplace safety.
Order Accuracy : Follow prep guides and recipe cards to ensure food is prepared to standard, following protocols for handling allergens and preventing cross-contamination.
Multi-Tasking : Efficiently manage prep, service, and cleaning responsibilities, particularly during peak hours of operation.

What Makes You Stand Out

Restaurant, retail, or hospitality experience with strong customer service skills

Quick learner who's reliable, organized, and adapts easily to different stations

Team-oriented and proactive, especially during peak periods

Passionate about food quality, safety, and creating memorable guest experience

Minimum Requirements

Must be available to work a minimum of 12 hours per week

Lifting : Handling various items, including heavy boxes (up to ~25 lbs).

Bending : For accessing low areas and handling items.

Reaching : For accessing high areas and handling items, includes building salads and restocking ingredients

Squatting : For accessing low areas and handling items

Pulling : Managing tasks that require pulling items or equipment

Manual Dexterity : Typing, interacting with systems, handling tools (knives, thermometers, POS systems), and managing cleaning tools

Physical Mobility : Navigating stairs, doors, ramps, elevators, and using equipment

Repetitive Motions : Frequent tasks like typing, cleaning, chopping, assembling, and mixing

Physical Endurance : Maintaining energy and efficiency through long shifts and peak periods

Coordination : Balance, multitasking, and handling bulky items or equipment in tight spaces

Must be 18 years of age or older

Must be authorized to work in the United States

Standing / Walking : Extended periods, including moving between areas

What Perks Youll Get

Tips

(subject to location and role)

Competitive wages (with raises for learning new skills)

Medical, dental, and vision plan options for part-time and full-time team members

Paid vacation + wellness time

Paid parental leave

401k

Free healthy and delicious shift meals

Access to our SG Swag Marketplace earn and buy custom Sweetgreen gear

And much more

Depending on eligibility

Who We Are :

Sweetgreen is a plant-forward food company with a vision for a healthier tomorrowand were just getting started. As we grow, were committed to developing our people from restaurants to our support center so everyone can be part of the movement. When you join Sweetgreen, you dont just grow your own futureyou grow the planets.

Sweetgreen provides equal opportunities for everyone that works for us and everyone that applies to join our team, without regard to sex or gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, race (including traits historically associated with race, such as hair texture and protective hairstyles), religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, any service, past, present, or future, in the uniformed services of the United States (military or veteran status), or any other consideration protected by federal, state, or local law.

California residents : Review our applicant privacy notice HERE.

Sweetgreen participates in the federal government's E-Verify program to determine employment eligibility. To learn more about the E-Verify program, please CLICK HERE.

To request an accommodation as permitted by law, click here.

Compensation details : 16.62 Hourly Wage

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