Lead Baker

Bewick All-Day Café is a beloved local eatery known for its commitment to high-quality, scratch-made food and a welcoming atmosphere. This café has garnered a reputation for combining innovative culinary creativity with traditional techniques, delivering an exceptional dining experience throughout the day. With a menu that reflects local and seasonal ingredients, Bewick All-Day Café has become a destination for food enthusiasts who appreciate artisanal touches and fresh, thoughtfully-prepared dishes. Their bakery and soft-serve ice cream programs are especially notable, offering customers unique and delightful flavor experiences that contribute significantly to the café’s distinctive appeal. As the café plans to expand its offerings to include dinner service, this growth phase is a dynamic and exciting time to join the team.

The role of Lead Baker at Bewick is a pivotal position that sits at the heart of the café’s early morning operations. Reporting directly to the Chef/Owner, the Lead Baker is entrusted with managing the bakery and soft-serve ice cream programs, ensuring that the bakery case is consistently stocked with fresh, high-quality, scratch-made products before the café opens at 8am every day. This position requires a highly skilled, disciplined, and independent individual with a passion for baking and precision in execution. The Lead Baker is the early bird leader who shapes the day’s kitchen rhythm by handling the crucial early morning preparation stage, including opening kitchen procedures, equipment checks, and ensuring impeccable cleanliness and organization.

Beyond the foundational baking tasks, the Lead Baker also plays an instrumental role in the creative aspect of the café’s offerings. They craft inventive soft-serve flavors and sundae toppings, and have the opportunity to showcase plated dessert skills and develop craveable cakes and pies, especially as the café introduces dinner service. The Lead Baker’s responsibilities extend to inventory management, ingredient ordering, and maintaining a tight control over waste and costs within the bakery budget. They collaborate closely with the Chef/Owner in seasonal menu development, bringing fresh ideas inspired by local produce, culinary trends, and customer preferences. Training and supervising baking staff is another key component, where the Lead Baker fosters a focused, professional environment conducive to excellence and teamwork.

Success in this role is measured by consistent bakery execution, flawless recipe adherence, timely communication of needs or issues, and the seamless operation of the early morning kitchen. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, knowledgeable about ingredients and allergens, and deeply committed to upholding the café’s standards of quality and safety. The work environment values creativity, reliability, and professionalism, offering the Lead Baker a meaningful platform to contribute to a growing culinary brand. This is a demanding yet rewarding early morning leadership role for a baker who takes pride in every detail of their craft and values the satisfaction of delivering a bakery case full of products worth savoring. The employment type is full-time, and interested candidates are encouraged to bring their passion for baking to this exciting and visible position within a thriving café setting.