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Seasonal - Kitchen Help

Stew Leonard's

Farmingdale, NYSeasonal$18.25–19/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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Compensation
$18.25–19/hr
Location
Farmingdale, NY
Schedule
Seasonal
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Stew Leonard’s is hiring a seasonal Culinary Assistant for its salad bar. The role involves food preparation, cooking, buffet setup and upkeep, product rotation, packaging, and customer service. The position requires applicants to be at least 18, have a high school diploma or equivalent, and safely operate specified kitchen tools and equipment. The estimated hourly pay range is $18.25 to $19.00, depending on qualifications and experience.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Food PreparationCookingCustomer ServiceKnife and Kitchen Equipment OperationOral CommunicationWork EthicProblem SolvingSelf-MotivationFlexibilityHonesty

Qualifications

Must Be 18+High School Diploma or EquivalentTwo Weeks of Training

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.

Culinary Assistant, Salad Bar

Seasonal Hourly – Estimated pay range $18.25 to $19.00 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.

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 2,212 open Food Preparation jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$18.25–19/hr
  • New York median$17–18/hr55 hourly ranges
  • US median$17–23/hr1,178 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $18.63/hr, is 6% above the New York median midpoint ($18/hr) — in the middle half of Food Preparation hourly ranges in New York.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 69 open Food Preparation jobs in New York and 2,212 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in New York
Experience
Food Preparation postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median (86 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a high school diploma; 109 of the 2,212 open Food Preparation jobs (5%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 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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