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Here’s to the kind of joint built to live on Main Street like it’s been here all along. Here’s to some hometown stories told in the shapes of comfort food from hometowns all over the globe: bold bites from your favorite taqueria, smokey BBQ straight from the backlot, street food with the authenticity of a Singapore alley delivered alongside the Ann Arbor train tracks.

Grandma’s recipe is right at home here: regardless of how many meters or mountains come between her place and this one.

At Union Rec, our crew brings all they know from wherever they’ve been so you can have something that takes you somewhere… right here. In the dining room. Along the bar rail. Around the fireplace. It all starts the moment the baristas click open the doors for coffee and pastries; and it continues through service when the kitchen and bar sling the kind of craft that makes us what we are.

We're like the upper bunk... where stories and snickers from fellow campers mean sleep is the last thing on your mind... and the counselors are dedicated to making sure you’re having a time of it. It’s like that: a bit throwback and a bit forward at the same time. And it’s right at home here on Main Street between the Big House and downtown in Ann Arbor.

All comfort. Always game for it.

Competitive pay and benefits including medical and supplemental insurance, on-demand pay, referral bonus, 401(k) and PTO!

Position Summary

Prepare of a variety of coffee beverages. Prepare and re-sell various hot and cold beverages, including bottled and canned drinks. Sell prepared foods including, but not limited to, pastries, oats and breakfast sandwiches. This position requires heavy customer contact and excellent customer service skills. A positive attitude is required at all times in order to ensure the return of our customers who are the reason for our business.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

• Prepare hot and cold beverages
• Prepares foods for sale
• Accurately handles cash and reconciles change due to customers
• Opens and/or closes the coffeehouse as scheduled
• Maintains cleanliness in coffeehouse and service areas at all times
• Delivers quality customer service at all times
• Demonstrates thorough knowledge of coffeehouse products as well as restaurant menu and general restaurant information (hours of service, specials, procedures, etc.)

Minimum Qualifications (knowledge, Skills, And Abilities)

• High School Diploma or GED graduate preferred
• 3 months or more of Barista experience
• Ability to handle stress under pressure
• Ability to provide quality customer service
• Ability to learn and use technical equipment (e.g. espresso machine)
• Ability to accurately exchange currency with the customers
• Ability to reconcile all cash and currency
• Willingness to maintain a clean, healthy, and safe working environment
• Ability to learn and use company computer to input data
• Ability to coordinate multiple activities with attention to detail
• Ability to work independently, with minimal supervision

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand.

The employee is occasionally required to sit; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.

Tasting and smelling abilities are required occasionally to distinguish with a degree of accuracy, differences or similarities in intensity or quality of…