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Help wanted: local food & beverage jobs, January 2020

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Help wanted: local food & beverage jobs, January 2020

Jan 8, 20204 min read

Let’s say you’re a pretty talented chef, or perhaps you’re able to wash dishes and clean tables at a decent rate, but have nowhere to share your skills.

It’s your lucky day: there are plenty of tables to be cleaned, thousands of mouths to feed, and you’ve just so happened to run across a roundup of some of those opportunities.

So, clean up that resume for 2020, put yourself out there, and stay tuned for updates.

Management positions

Grandma’s Tony’s Pizza

Manager & Assistant Managers
  • The restaurant is looking for applicants with experience.

View full job description and apply here. 

1702 Craft Beer and Pizza

Kitchen Manager
  • They’re looking for a team member that has experience in the pizza industry, has management experience, and is knowledgeable about craft beer.

View full job description and apply here. 

Back of the house (dishwasher, cook, line cook, sous chef)

Caffe Torino

Prep/Pantry Cook
  • Good knife skills, attention to details, plate presentation, sense of urgency, reliability, and finesse.

View full job description and apply here. 

Churrasco de Brasil

Prep Cook
  • Must have prior experience.

View full job description and apply here. 

The Dutch Eatery & Refuge

Line Cook
  • Ensure that all recipes, food preparation, and presentation meet restaurant’s specifications.

View full job description and apply here. 

Grandma’s Tony’s Pizza

Cook
  • The restaurant is looking for applicants with experience.

View full job description and apply here. 

IOU Sushi IV

Kitchen Staff
  • Must be able to cook and prepare kitchen items, and also wash dishes and do regular cleaning.

View full job description and apply here. 

IOU Sushi IV

Sushi Chef
  • Must be able to prepare sushi and also wash dishes and do regular cleaning.

View full job description and apply here. 

JA Ramen

Dishwasher
  • Are you willing to work the night shift?

View full job description and apply here. 

Kneaders Bakery & Cafe

Grill Cook
  • A “can do” attitude with the ability to work quickly and confidently.

View full job description and apply here. 

Kneaders Bakery & Cafe

Pastry Chef
  • You’ll need to have more than one year of large scale baking and pastry experience.

View full job description and apply here. 

Kon Tiki Restaurant & Lounge

Line/Prep Cook
  • Manage stock of accessible ingredients, maintain health and safety guidelines, and more.

View full job description and apply here. 

Le Buzz Caffe

Baker
  • Must have professional scratch baking experience.

View full job description and apply here. 

Lindy’s on 4th

Line Cook
  • Cooking experience or Back of the House experience preferred.

View full job description and apply here. 

Little Anthony’s Diner

Line Cook
  • They’re hiring high energy, professional, hardworking, experienced cooks.

View full job description and apply here.

Millie’s West Pancake Haus

Dishwasher
  • Must be able to work four to six shifts a week.

View full job description and apply here.

Street Taco and Beer Co.

Baker
  • Ideal candidate is a self-starter, ambitious, and engaged.

View full job description and apply here. 

Front of the house (cashier, bartender, server, runner, host, busser)

BlackRock Brewers

Bartender
  • Do you have a passion for Craft Beer?

View full job description and apply here. 

The Canyon’s Crown Restaurant and Pub

Server
  • For those who’d like to work in a pub-style restaurant with comfort food and a friendly neighborhood atmosphere.

View full job description and apply here. 

Churrasco de Brasil

Server
  • Must be comfortable visiting their customer’s tables with skewers of different types of meat and more.

View full job description and apply here. 

Cody’s Beef ‘n Beans

Server
  • Experience in the restaurant industry is not required, but preferred.

View full job description and apply here. 

Kon Tiki Restaurant & Lounge

Server
  • Presenting the menu and helping customers select food, delivering food to tables, delivering a great customer experience, and more.

View full job description and apply here. 

Hotel Tucson City Center

Server
  • Their ideal candidate is attentive, motivated, and engaged.

View full job description and apply here. 

North Italia

Server
  • Your primary responsibility is to clear and clean tables after guests leave including dishware, table tops, chairs, booths and floor, and reset quickly for the next round of guests.

View full job description and apply here. 

IOU Sushi IV

Server/Cashier
  • Must be friendly, outgoing, and familiar with a cash register.

View full job description and apply here. 

Sushi Zona

Server
  • They’re looking for a “hard worker and friendly person.”

View full job description and apply here. 

Article written by:

Matt Sterner

Matt Sterner

More about Matt

At a very young age, Matt Sterner was gifted with the artistic ability to masterfully roll a burrito to the highest of standards, but the wrapped medley of delicious innards wasn’t his first love. Matt’s first true love was a combination of reading, writing, and creating. He grew up reading comics, the ingredients list of his shampoo and conditioner bottles, choose-your-own-adventure books, and the Scrabble dictionary — something he found useful when challenging his grandmother to a game.

He attended college at New Mexico State University and graduated with a degree in Digital Filmmaking. One of his favorite classes was screenwriting because he became responsible for the story’s birth before it came to life on-screen. After school, Matt took on numerous positions at a local television station in Tucson. From dealing out stories about heartbreak to producing “fluffier” content for a lifestyle broadcast, he learned what it takes to adapt to the many emotions the world of media can stir. Since 2017, Matt has dabbled in the culinary world of Tucson as well as San Diego, California from time to time.

If you’re in the mood for strange stories, head over to his pride and joy, wonkytimes.com. And in case you’re curious — yes, after all of this time, he still manages to roll a killer burrito.

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