Food Service Expert

Target Target · Retail · Webster, NY

Target is seeking a Food Service Expert to ensure product freshness, availability, and accurate pricing in their Food & Beverage department. This role involves guest service, food safety compliance, inventory management, and operational efficiency, including adherence to brand standards for areas like Pizza Hut. The expert will produce, package, and label items, maintain dining areas, and support sales through suggestive selling and promotions.

What you'd actually do

  1. Greet: 10ft: be friendly – smile, make eye contact, or wave
  2. Actively support team efforts and assist peers in other areas while maintaining a positive and respectful attitude
  3. Deliver an exceptional guest experience by providing a fresh and abundant shopping experience during all hours of operations, prioritizing the guest’s needs over task.
  4. Execute Food & Beverage processes, including food deliveries, replenishment, straightening merchandise, instocks routines, data accuracy, culling, rotation, cleaning, signing, and organizing and storing reserve product.
  5. Follow all food safety requirements including monitoring and recording temperature sensitive food items as outlined in best practice.

Skills

Required

  • Strong interest and knowledge of the food service business
  • Welcoming and helpful attitude toward all guests and other team members
  • Ability to communicate on multiple frequency devices and operate handheld scanners, and other technology equipment as directed
  • Work both independently and with a team
  • Resolve guest questions quickly on the spot
  • Attention to detail and follow multi-step processes
  • Capability to remain focused and composed in a fast-paced environment and accomplish multiple tasks within established timeframes
  • Access all areas of the building to respond to guest or team member issues.
  • Interpret instructions, reports and information.
  • Accurately handle cash register operations as needed.
  • Climb up and down ladders if needed.
  • Scan, handle and move merchandise efficiently and safely, including frequently lifting or moving merchandise up to 44 pounds without additional assistance from others.
  • Flexible work schedule (e.g., nights, weekends and holidays); come to work when scheduled, work scheduled shifts and take required meal and rest breaks
  • Ability to work in environments that will include refrigeration and fire

Nice to have

  • Previous food or grocery experience preferred, but not required