Café All-Rounder (Kitchen Focus)

Location: Apprentice Café

Position Type: Part-time

Compensation: $16-$18/hr depending on experience.

Availability: 1-2 week days plus 1 weekend day

Apprentice Café is a chef-driven, from-scratch café built around care, consistency, and craft. Everything we serve is made in-house, with close attention to detail and process.

We are looking for a part-time café all-rounder with a strong kitchen, baking, and prep focus, who is also comfortable supporting barista and front-of-house service during busy periods.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working with their hands, values doing things properly, and takes pride in contributing to a small, focused team.

The Reality of the Role:

This job can be busy and demanding. Apprentice Café is a small team, so everyone helps everywhere. You should be comfortable with:

- Physical Stamina: Standing on your feet for the duration of your shift and working with urgency during rushes.
- Agility: Pivoting smoothly between kitchen prep, baking, dishes, and front-counter service as the flow of the day demands.
- Precision through repetition: Executing daily prep and baking tasks to the exact same high standard every single time.
- Direct, constructive coaching: We communicate clearly and directly in the moment so we can all get better.
- Autonomy: Taking ownership of your station and working independently once trained.

If you are mainly looking for a relaxed café vibe, this probably is not the right fit. If you enjoy learning, moving with purpose, and being part of a serious small team, it may be a strong fit.

Key Responsibilities

- Assist with daily kitchen production, including:
- Baking bread, loaves, cookies, and pastries
- Preparing and churning house-made ice cream
- Ingredient prep for breakfast sandwiches and café menu items




- Maintain high standards of cleanliness, organization, and food safety
- Support barista and front-of-house service during peak hours
- Work efficiently in a fast-paced environment with many moving pieces
- Communicate clearly and take ownership of tasks without constant direction

Ideal Candidate

- Available to work weekends
- Culinary, baking, pastry, or hospitality training (an asset)
- Previous café, bakery, or kitchen experience (an asset)
- Comfortable working independently and as part of a small team
- Detail-oriented, calm under pressure, and dependable
- Genuinely interested in food, baking, and learning across disciplines

What We Offer

- Hands-on experience in a chef-led café
- Exposure to bread baking, pastry, ice cream, and coffee
- A supportive, tight-knit team environment
- Quality-of-life: Daytime café hours 7:30 AM – 5:30 PM. No late nights.
- Consistent hours for the right person

How to Apply Please submit a brief introduction and relevant experience.

Applications that demonstrate care, thoughtfulness, and attention to detail will stand out.

Job Type: Part time

Pay: $16.00-$18.00 per hour

Expected hours: 16.0 – 24.0 per week

Application question(s)

- What days and times are you available to work?

(Please list specific days and time ranges.)
- Briefly describe any relevant food, baking, café, or hospitality experience.

(Where you worked, what you actually did day-to-day.)
- Provide details on education or training (including graduation dates if applicable):

(Culinary, baking, pastry, hospitality, or other—formal or informal.)
- Do you have reliable transportation to ensure you arrive on time for early morning shifts (e.g., 6:00 AM - 7:00 AM), even on weekends?
- Briefly explain your knowledge and interest around specialty coffee and cooking.

Work Location: In person

📌 Cook/Baker/Barista - Cafe all rounder (Calgary)
🏢 Apprentice Cafe
📍 Calgary