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Seasonal Culinary Assistant

Stew Leonard's

Danbury, CTSeasonal$18.25–21.38/hrSeen 4w agoSeen in employer's feed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$18.25–21.38/hr
Location
Danbury, CT
Schedule
Seasonal
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Stew Leonard’s is hiring a seasonal Salad Bar Culinary Assistant to prepare and cook food, serve customers, and support other department areas such as BBQ and Pizza. The role includes setting up and maintaining buffet displays, monitoring food temperatures, packaging products, and following health and safety regulations. Applicants must be at least 18 and have a high school diploma or equivalent.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Food Preparation, nice to haveCooking, nice to haveCustomer Service, nice to haveKnife and Equipment Operation, nice to haveOral Communication, nice to haveWork Ethic, nice to haveProblem Solving, nice to haveSelf-Motivation, nice to haveFlexibility, nice to haveLifting Up to 50 Lbs, nice to have

Qualifications

Must Be 18+, requiredHigh School Diploma or Equivalent, nice to have2 Weeks of Training, nice to have

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match

Full job description

Stew Leonard’s, a family-owned and operated fresh food store founded in 1969, has locations in Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey. Stew’s earned its nickname, the “Disneyland of Dairy Stores” because of its country-fair atmosphere, with costumed characters and animated entertainment throughout the store that keep children entertained while parents shop.

Seasonal Salad Bar Culinary Assistant

Seasonal Hourly – Estimated pay range $18.25/hr to $21.38/hr depending on qualifications and experience

Must be at least 18 years and older

Position Description:

As a Culinary Assistant, you will perform various tasks relating to food preparation, cooking, and customer service and assist in other areas in the department such as BBQ and Pizza.

Your day-to-day:

  • Set up buffet according to established standards

  • Ensure proper signage of buffet food items

  • Refill and rotate food on buffet when required

  • Wipe down and clean buffet, as needed

  • Stock supplies for the hot and cold bar

  • Check food temperature every two hours and document in temperate log

  • Maintaining, filling and rotating products on display, being mindful of dates

  • Package finished products

  • Adhere to all health, sanitation, and safety regulations

  • Assist in other duties, as assigned

Qualifications:

  • 18 years of age or older

  • High school diploma or equivalent

  • 2 weeks of training

  • Safely use/operate knives, knife sharpeners, scalers, scales, and wrapping machines

  • Excellent customer service

  • Good oral communication skills

What you bring to the team:

  • Great work ethic

  • Problem solver

  • Self-motivator

  • Flexible

  • Honest

Working Conditions:

  • This position requires frequent walking, standing, reaching, and occasional pulling, pushing, squatting, and lifting with a maximum of 50lbs

  • This position requires frequent exposure to grease, oil, and extreme heat (non-weather related) and occasional exposure to smoke, noise, and weather

Satisfy:

  • Greet customers with a friendly smile and positive attitude, ensuring that each customer feels welcome and appreciated.

Teamwork:

  • Collaborate with team members to ensure the smooth operation of the store, offering assistance and support where needed.

Excellence:

  • Improve and maintain the efficiency of the store in order to reach success.

Wow:

  • Be a positive ambassador for the store, representing our S.T.E.W. values in all interactions with customers and team members. You are the biggest WOW!

Why you’ll love working here!

Family Oriented: We respect the personal balance between work and family with career opportunity and growth- over 80% of our managers have been promoted from within.

Benefits: High value, high quality Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage, 401 K plan for FT & PT team members, family & personal time, life insurance, and more!

Environment: Have you seen the Avocado Girls? Chiquita Banana? Or the singing Parrot?

Pay Day: We’re thrilled to offer our team members Dayforce Wallet – a new way to get paid. Say bye-bye to pay day and hello to pay your way. Get your pay as soon as you earn it, at no cost to you – It’s your money, why should you have to wait? Request your pay as you earn it.

We take pride in the power of diversity, inclusion, and being socially responsible to the communities, which we live and do business

Apply today and start as soon as 1 week!

For more information on working at Stew Leonard’s click on the link below!

http://www.stewleonards.com/work-at-stews/

Stew Leonard's is an equal opportunity at will employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of age, race, religion, color, disability, sex, sexual orientation or national origin.

How this job compares

Set against the 2,463 open Food Preparation jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$18.25–21.38/hr
  • US median$17–21/hr1,298 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $19.81/hr, is close to the US median midpoint ($20/hr) — in the middle half of Food Preparation hourly ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 10 open Food Preparation jobs in Connecticut and 2,463 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most across the US
Experience
Food Preparation postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median (83 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a high school diploma; 87 of the 2,463 open Food Preparation jobs (4%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 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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