Cafe Assistant

About us:
At Nkuku, we create beautifully handmade home and lifestyle products. Working with artisans around the world, we blend timeless design with traditional craftsmanship and natural materials. Everything we do is shaped by our core values: Natural, Crafted, and Ethical – from the way we design to how we source and produce.
We\’re a certified B Corp, which means we believe business can be a force for good – creating beautiful products whilst doing right by the people we work with and the planet we rely on.
As a Real Living Wage Employer, we make sure everyone in our team is paid fairly and respectfully, based on the real cost of living. For us, it\’s a simple but important part of doing the right thing.
Nkuku has a strong sense of family at its heart. Our culture is warm, collaborative and down-to-earth, with a shared commitment to doing things properly – with care, creativity and purpose.
About you:
We are looking for bags of personality and positive attitude. A can-do attitude approach and enthusiasm, paired with a desire to do things right, creating a great guest experience will get you a long way.
To be successful you\’ll need to be enthusiastic, energetic and engaging, with the ability to articulate and share your passion for great products and service with our customers.
We\’re an ethical and inclusive employer so want you to feel free to be yourself, but as importantly you should have the ability to bring our core values alive in everything you do.
About this role:
The café is located at our Lifestyle Store at Brockhills Barns, Harbertonford, just outside Totnes. Work patterns would vary and would include weekends, hours worked could range between 8.30am – 5.30pm, with occasional functions at night. You will be serving food and drinks along with making coffee, amongst many other service and operational tasks associated with a casual dining environment.
We\’re therefore looking for candidates with Food and Beverage service experience ideally acquired within a similar lifestyle, relaxed, or creative business. You\’ll have the ability to connect easily maximise both the Nkuku experience, as well as the cafes overall success and profitability.
About your key responsibilities:
We want to hire GREAT people who can:

• Helping to make Nkuku Lifestyle Café a local \”go-to destination\”, synonymous to great food, great coffee and great service.

• Be passionate about your role and responsibilities
• Make everyone feel welcome and instantly at ease
• Embrace a more relaxed environment, without relaxing the standards
• Bring charisma to the room and knows how to hold a great conversation
• Be inspiring and makes the \”everyday\” feel special
• Be well organised in how you operate
• Serve tables like a pro

• Have a love of wholesome food and seasonal ingredients.

• Learn how to make great coffee
• Live our values by being green and community minded
• Be open minded and flexible in the duties you cover
• Solve problems in a logical and guest focused way

If you can do all of that… you\’re perfect to join our team!
About your Benefits:

• A competitive salary and incentives
• Sociable hours and shifts
• 25 days holiday per year (FTE paid pro-rata)
• Company Cycle to work scheme
• Great team discounts on Nkuku products and within the Café
• Paid Charity Volunteering Days
• Charitable Giving Program
• Benefits Hub – a discount marketplace for many well-known High Street Brands
• Reciprocal Discounts with other likeminded companies
• Fitness Classes
• We\’re a growing business that encourages our people to grow with us.
• To be around like-minded people who want to offer great service within a relaxed, friendly and ethically conscious environment.