Prepared Foods Associate
Part-timePrinceton, NJPart-time$17–17.5/hrPosted 1 day agoStill listed today
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Job overview
A Prepared Foods Associate at Wegmans helps customers make meals easy by preparing and serving hot and cold foods, assembling meals, and providing customer service. The role also involves following procedures for food preparation, storage, rotation, stocking, and merchandising. The posting prefers food preparation experience and preferably customer service experience in food service, grocery, or retail.
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Location: 240 Nassau Park Blvd Princeton, NJ 08540 Availability Requirement for this role: Morning, afternoon, evening (includes weekends). Age Requirement: Must be 16 years or older Time Type: Part time Pay Range: $17 - $17.50 / hour
Why Work Here Working at Wegmans provides opportunities to grow, flexible scheduling, incredible benefits, and the experience of working for a company with a reputation you can be proud of.
Job Description: 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
- Cut, prepare, and serve a variety of hot and cold food items
- Prepare, package and assemble meals
- Build customer relationships and provide timely, exceptional service
- Follow proper procedures for food preparation, storage, rotation, stocking, and merchandising
Requirements:
- Collective customer service experience, preferably in a food service, grocery or retail setting
Preferred Qualifications: Food preparation experience
How this job compares
Set against the 3,081 open Food Service jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$17–17.5/hr
- New Jersey median$17–19/hr45 hourly ranges
- US median$17–19/hr1,326 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $17.25/hr, is 4% below the New Jersey median midpoint ($18/hr) — in the middle half of Food Service hourly ranges in New Jersey.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 60 open Food Service jobs in New Jersey and 3,081 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New Jersey
- Chipotle Mexican Grill7 open
- ASM Global6 open
- Compass Group, North America5 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 (410 postings).
- Education
- 18 of the 3,081 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 November 6, 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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