The Café Coordinator is responsible for cooking regularly and engaging with volunteers, guests, and individuals or organizations who donate produce to SAME Cafe. The Café Coordinator will lead groups of volunteers through Café projects, maintain data regarding produce donations, and assist in collecting community feedback through the Toledo Board of Directors. This position requires excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to adapt to the needs of our many diverse volunteers and guests. 

Prior kitchen experience is required.

In this position you will often be required to lift up to 50 pounds, stand for long periods of time, bend, reach, go up and down steps, and work in extreme temperatures, and work with the other staff to deescalate guests and volunteers. 

Kitchen Duties:

• Ensure compliance with all Health Department and SAME health and safety standards

• Assists the Executive Chef in planning and preparing the daily menu
• Cook 1-2 days a week, or as needed
• Orient volunteers in Café safety standards
• Assists in all daily set up, food prep, cleaning, and closing 
• Prep and store product orders and donations in a timely manner
• Assist in monitoring Café cleanliness, food levels, and suitability of volunteers to participate
• Occasional evening, catering shifts, and off site events required
• Other duties as assigned

Café Duties

• Responsible for entering donated produce data from farms and individual growers 
• Assists in the coordination of volunteer exchange guests and front and back of house pre-scheduled volunteers, including assignments, paperwork, and waivers 

• Assists the Café Manager in recruiting, training, and onboarding daily volunteers
• Orient volunteers in Café safety standards
• Ensure end of day tasks are completed and record money with a staff member or volunteer
• Open and close the cafe in the absence of a manager
• Other duties as assigned

Administrative Duties

• Assist Cafe Manager in sending quarterly thank you notes to farmers and volunteers
• Assist in promoting SAME Cafe through social media by taking photos, contributing story ideas, and highlighting farms and gardens when produce is donated
• Other duties as assigned

Cook to Work Program

• Work with other staff to train participants in the C2W modules
• Work with other staff to oversee and guide participants through modules
• Work with other staff to record hours and report data to Executive Director
• Other duties as assigned

About SAME Café:

SAME Café creates community through healthy food access and is the longest running nonprofit restaurant in the country! We provide healthy meals to everyone, regardless of ability to pay. Each guest who comes through the door is treated exactly the same and orders from the daily-changing menu and then participates in the mission by donating time, money, or produce.

About Qualified Candidates:

SAME is looking for candidates who are self-motivated and passionate about creating a nurturing and welcoming environment for our entire community, including those facing significant hardships. The right person for this job is patient, creative, has attention to detail, is calm under pressure, and is a skilled coworker. 

If you are employed by So All May Eat / SAME Café you would be working with diverse groups of people from all walks of life and varying socioeconomic backgrounds. As an inclusive space, we welcome community members who are currently experiencing or have experienced homelessness, addiction, individuals who need to complete community service requirements, and those who are neuro-diverse. SAME Cafe partners with schools to provide experiences and internships for middle school, highschool, college and graduate students.

So All May Eat / SAME Café values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.

Work Environment 

The majority of your shifts will take place at SAME Cafe’s Toledo Location with occasional evening and offsite community engagement opportunities. 

If you are employed by So All May Eat / SAME Café you will be working with diverse groups of people from all walks of life and varying socioeconomic backgrounds. As an inclusive space, we welcome community members who are currently experiencing or have experienced homelessness, addiction, individuals who need to complete community service requirements, and those who are neuro-diverse. SAME Cafe partners with schools to provide experiences and internships for middle school, high school, college and graduate students. 

So All May Eat / SAME Café values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBT individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply. 

So All May Eat / SAME Café is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion (creed), gender, national origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, or age. 

TO APPLY: Send your resume and cover letter to Rori Quinonez, Executive Director of SAME Cafe Toledo ([email protected]) and indicate two or three times that you could do a screening interview in the next two weeks.