USC Village - Core Team Member

A Healthier Future Starts With You!

As a Sweetgreen Team Member, you'll be an ambassador for our mission: building healthier communities by connecting people to real food. Whether you're focused on customer experience, food preparation, or station organization, you'll have the support to create experiences our customers will love.

Join our movement to rewrite the future of fast foodand grow your own future too. Top-performing Team Members can advance to General Manager in as little as 36 months.

What Youll Do:

Deliver exceptional hospitality while supporting smooth restaurant operationsfrom greeting customers and sharing menu knowledge to ensuring a positive experience at every touchpoint.

Essential Functions

• Food Preparation: Includes portioning, mixing, squeezing, chopping, and prepping ingredients.
• Line Operation: Build salads quickly and accurately, ensuring correct portions and presentation.
• Customer Interaction: Greeting guests, taking orders, answering questions, and delivering a friendly and efficient service experience.
• Sanitation + Cleaning: Maintain a clean and organized workspace, adhering to food safety and hygiene standards at all times.
• Tool + Equipment Handling: Safely operate kitchen tools and equipment (including knives, robot coupe, blenders, thermometers, dish machines, and POS systems).
• Inventory Support: Restock and rotate ingredients and supplies as needed throughout service and prep shifts.
• Team Communication: Use of clear verbal cues (knife, behind) to ensure team coordination and workplace safety.
• Order Accuracy: Follow prep guides and recipe cards to ensure food is prepared to standard, following protocols for handling allergens and preventing cross-contamination.
• Multi-Tasking: Efficiently manage prep, service, and cleaning responsibilities, particularly during peak hours of operation.

What Makes You Stand Out

• Restaurant, retail, or hospitality experience with strong customer service skills
• Quick learner who's reliable, organized, and adapts easily to different stations
• Team-oriented and proactive, especially during peak periods
• Passionate about food quality, safety, and creating memorable guest experience

Minimum Requirements

• Must be available to work a minimum of 12 hours per week
• Lifting: Handling various items, including heavy boxes (up to ~25 lbs).
• Bending: For accessing low areas and handling items.
• Reaching: For accessing high areas and handling items, includes building salads and restocking ingredients
• Squatting: For accessing low areas and handling items
• Pulling: Managing tasks that require pulling items or equipment
• Manual Dexterity: Typing, interacting with systems, handling tools (knives, thermometers, POS systems), and managing cleaning tools
• Physical Mobility: Navigating stairs, doors, ramps, elevators, and using equipment
• Repetitive Motions: Frequent tasks like typing, cleaning, chopping, assembling, and mixing
• Physical Endurance: Maintaining energy and efficiency through long shifts and peak periods
• Coordination: Balance, multitasking, and handling bulky items or equipment in tight spaces
• Must be 18 years of age or older
• Must be authorized to work in the United States
• Standing/Walking: Extended periods, including moving between areas

What Perks Youll Get

• Tips* (subject to location and role)
• Competitive wages (with raises for learning new skills)
• Medical, dental, and vision plan options for part-time and full-time team members*
• Paid vacation + wellness time
• Paid parental leave*
• 401k*
• Free healthy and delicious shift meals
• Access to our SG Swag Marketplace earn and buy custom Sweetgreen gear
• And much more

*Depending on eligibility

Who We Are:

Sweetgreen is a plant-forward food company with a vision for a healthier tomorrowand were just getting started. As we grow, were committed to developing our people from restaurants to our support center so everyone can be part of the movement. When you join Sweetgreen, you dont just grow your own futureyou grow the planets.

Sweetgreen provides equal opportunities for everyone that works for us and everyone that applies to join our team, without regard to sex or gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, race (including traits historically associated with race, such as hair texture and protective hairstyles), religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, any service, past, present, or future, in the uniformed services of the United States (military or veteran status), or any other consideration protected by federal, state, or local law.

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