About Spit & Sawdust
Spit & Sawdust is a multi-aspect community space in Cardiff, which opened in April 2014 with a skate park, café and art programme.
Our cafe mainly serves homemade burgers, chips, sides and breakfast items, as well as homemade cakes, coffees, teas and shakes. We are fully licensed with a small but high quality wine list, a few draught beers, bottled cider and beers and a few spirit options. We use many local suppliers and make everything in-house. Our cafe serves the users of the skatepark as well as customers who just come to eat and drink here. We also do a number of offsite food stalls and events, as well as private catering work, which can be our regular menu or a range of other dishes. We have an outside wood fired oven which is used for events and private hire.
As well as our cafe Spit & Sawdust houses an indoor skate park. There are various sessions through the week - open sessions, under 10s, female only, lessons, and private hire slots.
Throughout the space we support a programme of events, performances, screenings, exhibitions and residencies giving creative practitioners from all art forms a platform to experiment and present their work. We also host events and private parties, and run community projects in partnership with other organisations.
We’re a not-for-profit social enterprise and a Company Limited by Guarantee. This means all our surplus is put back into the organisation to make the space better.
What does the job involve?
We are a small team at Spit & Sawdust. Currently Becca, Christian and Nia are the Directors and take overall responsibility. Christian is on-site most of the time, running the skatepark side of things day to day, while Nia and Becca mainly work on admin and the art programme. Marta heads up all thing kitchen and food related, and Kim is the General Manager, making sure everything runs smoothly as well as working front of house. Luther is our Skatepark Assistant, and we also have a number of part-time skateboard tutors, PJ our caretaker, and Emma, our gardener. We also have some regular volunteers, casual staff and freelancers who help out from time to time or work on specific duties such as the art programme.
This opportunity is for someone to work front of house, predominantly on the cafe side of things.
Main duties of the role include:
Prepare the bar and front of house ready for service;
Keep fridges and all FOH items stocked, ensuring stock rotation;
Greet customers and help to create a welcoming, relaxed and friendly environment;
Take orders and payments;
Prepare drinks, deliver food and clear table;
Communicate with the kitchen to keep the cafe running smoothly;
Help make sure licencing laws and our license conditions are abided by;
Keep the cafe and other public area clean and tidy and help with washing up;
Keep records in line with Food Standards such as fridge temperatures, use by dates etc;
Prepare floats and cash up;
Undertake First Aider and Fire Marshall duties when required and once training course is completed;
Take on other duties and and when required, such as occasionally working off-site at events on our food stall or helping out on the skatepark counter.
Who are we looking for?
We try to make Spit & Sawdust a friendly, happy place to work. The above is part of what the staff on shift have to get done every day to make Spit & Sawdust run smoothly, but there is plenty of opportunity to bring your knowledge, experience and interests to the role and input into Spit & Sawdust’s development, events and projects.
Essential Criteria
We’re looking for a sociable, calm, multi-tasker with great customer service skills. You must be responsible and reliable with some experience of working in a cafe, coffee shop or restaurant and want to work in this type of multi-aspect community space.
Additional, desirable but not essential criteria
Details
Hours of work
The role is for 20+ hours per week, which will be worked over 3 shifts plus additional covering events/annual leave etc. You will be working weekends and evenings.
Our current opening times are Tuesday 4-9pm, Wed - Fri 5pm to 10pm, Sat 10am-8pm and Sun 10am-6pm. Most Saturday nights we also have private hire bookings. These hours are subject to change. You must be willing to work weekends and evenings in line with our opening times, there may be daytime work available during school holidays and additional hours to cover annual leave, events and other projects.
Pay, Annual Leave and Pension
Pay is £10.40 per hour, paid every month in arrears.
Sickness, maternity, paternity and adoption pay will be statutory.
You will be entitled to paid annual leave of 28 days pro rata.
You will be automatically enrolled into a workplace pension scheme if you are eligible.
Additional benefits
You will also get free entry to the skate park (for yourself or a designated family member), staff food whilst on longer shifts, 25% staff discount in the café when not on shift and 10% discount at Bacareto, our sister venue.
How to apply…
DEADLINE: Tuesday 1st November 5pm
Interviews will be held on Thursday 3rd or Friday 4th November, followed by trial shifts.
START DATE: ASAP following appointment.
To apply, email us on hello@spitandsawdust.co.uk saying why you're interested in the position and how your experience and interests fit the job description. Please also attach a CV (including 2 people we can contact for a reference).
Applicants shortlisted for interview will be notified on Wednesday 3rd November.
If you have any questions regarding the job or the application process please contact us on hello@spitandsawdust.co.uk.
Appointment will be subject to positive references.
