
Prepared Food Associate
Part-timeLAKE GROVE, NYPart-time$17.5–18/hrSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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Job overview
The Prepared Food Associate works on Wegmans’ restaurant foods team, helping customers learn about ingredients and products while creating high-quality food items. The role involves preparing and serving hot and cold foods, assembling meals, providing timely customer service, and following procedures for food preparation, storage, rotation, stocking, and merchandising.
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Full job description
Schedule: Part time
Availability: Applying To This Requisition Allows You To Be Considered For Multiple Opportunities. Please Provide As Much Availability That Works With Your Schedule.
Age Requirement: 18 years or older
Location: Lake Grove, NY
Address: 3270 Middle Country Rd
Pay: $17.50 - $18 / hour
Job Posting: 10/21/2026
Job Posting End: 11/07/2026
Job ID: R0300650
Our customers choose Wegmans for the freshest ingredients, delicious meal options, and the helpful people in our stores. As a member of our restaurant foods team, you are at the heart of helping people make great meals easy. In this role, you’ll help educate our customers about the exceptional ingredients and products we offer and work as part of a team to create high quality products. If you have a passion for food and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, then this could be the role for you!
What You'll Do
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Cut, prepare, and serve a variety of hot and cold food items
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Prepare, package and assemble meals
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Build relationships with customers and provide incredible service by addressing their needs in a timely and effective manner
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Use effective and proper procedures for food preparation, storage, rotation, stocking, and merchandising
At Wegmans, we’ve always believed we can achieve our goals only if we first fulfill the needs of our people. Putting our people first and offering competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits and a wide range of meaningful perks is just the beginning of what defines a rewarding career at Wegmans.
Comprehensive benefits*
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Paid time off (PTO) to help you balance your personal and work life
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Higher premium pay rates for working overtime, on Sundays, or on a recognized holiday
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Health care benefits that provide a high level of coverage at a low cost to you
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Retirement plan with a 401(k) match
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A generous scholarship program to help employees meet their educational goals
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LiveWell Employee & Family program to support your emotional, work-life and financial wellness
Our employees have put us high on Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list every year since it was first produced in 1998. Discover what it means to work for a mission-driven, values-based company where YOU make the difference.
*Certain eligibility requirements must be satisfied, and offerings may differ based upon area or the company and/or position.
At Wegmans, we’ve always believed we can achieve our goals only if we first fulfill the needs of our people. Putting our people first and offering competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits and a wide range of meaningful perks is just the beginning of what defines a rewarding career at Wegmans.
Comprehensive benefits*
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Paid time off (PTO) to help you balance your personal and work life
-
Higher premium pay rates for working overtime, on Sundays, or on a recognized holiday
-
Health care benefits that provide a high level of coverage at a low cost to you
-
Retirement plan with a 401(k) match
-
A generous scholarship program to help employees meet their educational goals
-
LiveWell Employee & Family program to support your emotional, work-life and financial wellness
Our employees have put us high on Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list every year since it was first produced in 1998. Discover what it means to work for a mission-driven, values-based company where YOU make the difference.
*Certain eligibility requirements must be satisfied, and offerings may differ based upon area or the company and/or position.
Wegmans is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We recruit, hire, train, and promote without discrimination due to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, military leave or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law.
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Wegmans is committed to ensuring all applicants can successfully submit an application for consideration. If you have a disability under the ADA or similar law; and you wish to discuss potential accommodations to complete your application for employment, please call (585) 429-3737 and someone would be happy to assist you.
How this job compares
Set against the 3,821 open Food Service jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$17.5–18/hr
- New York median$18–21/hr247 hourly ranges
- US median$17–19/hr1,934 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $17.75/hr, is 7% below the New York median midpoint ($19/hr) — in the middle half of Food Service hourly ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 301 open Food Service jobs in New York and 3,821 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- Chipotle Mexican Grill20 open
- Compass Group, North America17 open
- ARAMARK14 open
- Experience
- Food Service postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (538 postings).
- Education
- 21 of the 3,821 open Food Service jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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