Baker (Full + Part Time)

Love board games? Enjoy cool and unique snacks? Want to be part of a fun, empowering, and inclusive work environment where playing games is part of your every day? **We're seeking kind, outgoing, and self-starting bakers for full and part time positions on our inaugural team at Turquoise Goat - Vancouver’s newest board game cafe experience.**

500% Cooler than your average Vancouver-sized living room, Turquoise Goat is a warm and welcoming cafe-style gathering space, serving colourful bites, Saturday-morning-cartoon-realness, and hundreds of the latest and greatest board and card games from around the world. With dedicated staff to recommend and teach games, groups of all sizes and interests are welcome to discover and play new and exciting board and card games without all the stress of reading the rules.

Inspired by the many board game cafes popping up across North America, Turquoise Goat aims to offer a first-of-its-kind experience in Vancouver, blending traditional board game cafe offerings with colourful, quirky, and alternative decor, people-centered business practices, innovative culinary creations, and a splash of retro nostalgia.

2SLGBTQQIA+ / Queer owned and operated, diversity, accessibility, and inclusivity, are integral values at Turquoise Goat, where we're striving to build an inclusive and welcoming space for people of all genders, sexual orientations, cultural backgrounds, abilities, ages, and walks of life to work, gather, socialize, and celebrate the everyday.

**Daily Tasks and Responsibilities - Baker**
- Set up, tear down, and sanitize baking workstation
- Independently follow a list of daily baking tasks, preparing batters and doughs from provided recipes
- Prepare raw ingredients by hand and with kitchen appliances like food processors and blenders
- Consistently weigh, measure, mix, and portion ingredients according to standard recipes
- Prepare various baked goods including yeast doughs and quick breads in a timely and consistent manner, following standardized presentation guidelines
- Frost and decorate cakes and other baked goods
- Ensure allergen free items are prepared and stored according to standard, avoiding cross-contamination whenever possible
- Ensure prepared food items are properly labelled and stored according to food safety guidelines
- Clean mixers and other baking machines and appliances according to a schedule
- Assist fellow team members in completing general back of house duties

**Essential Requirements**
- Quickly, and efficiently communicate with team members in English
- Read and understand written documents, printed labels, signage, and food packaging
- Be hardworking, self-starting, and driven to complete tasks to the best of your ability
- Be honest, receptive to feedback, and a clear communicator
- Be kind, respectful, accepting of others, and excited to be part of a positive and inclusive work environment
- Have a basic knowledge of special diets (gluten free, vegan, vegetarian etc.)
- Safely transport boxes and containers weighing upwards of 25 lbs (12 kg) from storage to baking area

**Necessary Qualifications**
- FoodSafe Level 1 or equivalent food safety training valid in BC/ willingness to obtain certification immediately upon hiring (this can be done as an online course)
- Strong knowledge of preparation methods required for cookies, quick breads, and yeast doughs

**Bonus Qualifications**
- Formal education in baking
- Significant experience in a commercial bakery environment
- Experience frosting and decorating baked goods
- Experience working in an allergen-aware cafe or restaurant
- Experience working in a board game cafe
- Self-identified board game or trading card game (TCG) nerd

**(Super Bonus Qualifications)**
- Can do cool yo-yo tricks (and are willing to demonstrate this)
- Have actually seen a real live turquoise goat
- Something else really cool

**Salary & Benefits**

As part of our ethos at Turquoise Goat, we respectfully choose to opt out of tip-dependent wage culture.

Rooted in racist policy, tipping pushes the onus of paying service staff onto the customer - a practice that disproportionately disadvantages women and people of colour, and unfairly compensates employees who work in non-customer facing positions.

Instead, at Turquoise Goat we believe that all restaurant employees deserve to earn a living wage in the city that they work, regardless of their position.

To support this, we pay every one of our team members above the calculated living wage for Metro Vancouver, meaning that all positions at Turquoise Goat start at $21 an hour, and increase based on experience, and annual living wage calculations.

In addition to above-standard wages, we offer extended health and dental benefits for full time employees, flexible and creative professional development opportunities, meaningful raises, and management promotions from within.

Other perks include complementary staff meals and unlimited non-alcoholic beverages on every shift