Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Flexible schedule
- Training & development
Mystic Café isn't your typical restaurant. We offer breakfast, lunch, and dinner throughout the week alongside quality espresso, fine wines, local art, and live music. Our customers enjoy the vintage dining atmosphere with our locally sourced and artisan meals. Mystic’s team members are excited to serve our customers, and many of our team members move up to become trainers, supervisors, and even managers.
Mystic Café is currently seeking a motivated Barista to join our dynamic professional team. The successful candidate will be outgoing, organized, professional, and have a flexible schedule.
The barista is responsible for fulfilling orders, completing sales transactions, and performing other support functions such as cleaning the food prep area, customer seating, or stock areas; maintaining inventory; and performing all other responsibilities as directed by the business. While we are looking for stellar coffee making experience, we are willing to train someone with exceptional customer service skills.
Happy Day employees are excited to come to work, to learn, and to produce the best experiences possible for our guests. Enjoy the benefits of working for a successful company, with comprehensive training, benefits to qualifying employees including a monthly meal discount card to all Happy Day locations, medical and dental insurance, 401(k) with company match, tuition assistance, and daycare reimbursement, and being a partner to the community.
If you want a job where you will develop your personal and professional skills and be a part of a community committed to excellence, this may be the job for you! Read through our qualifications below.
Responsibilities:
- Prepares espresso orders for customers and catering using standard measures and recipes.
- Enters orders accurately into POS device; accepts cash and charge payments.
- Replenishes condiments, beverages and general supplies while maintaining cleanliness of service area.
- Ensures proper presentation, portion control and maintenance of proper serving temperatures.
- Maintains sanitation and orderliness of all equipment, supplies and utensils.
- Ensures proper food preparation by using approved recipes and following prescribed production standards.
- Keeps display equipment clean and free of debris during meal service.
- Cleans equipment and workstation thoroughly before leaving the area for other assignments.
- Greets customers courteously and interacts in a manner to ensure customer satisfaction. Relays relevant concerns from customers to supervisors.
- Serves customers quickly and efficiently, and prevents delays in serving lines.
- Demonstrates a complete understanding of daily menu items and accurately explains them to customers.
- Serves as an advocate of selling techniques to the customer by establishing good communication and assisting in the buying decision-making process.
- Ensures all display foods are merchandised attractively per standards. Serves food neatly and attractively per standard.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, and Work Environment:
- Demonstrates the ability to interact and communicate effectively and respectfully with the public and coworkers in a friendly, enthusiastic, and outgoing manner
- Requires the ability to bend, twist, and stand to perform normal job functions
- Requires the ability to learn and maintain knowledge of our products and procedures
- Some cash handling and customer service experience preferred
- Is responsible, reliable, and maintains a professional demeanor
- Willingness to be cross-trained
- Commitment to excellence in your job
- Availability to work in shifts as needed
- Sunday availability
- Access to reliable transportation
If you can see yourself taking on these responsibilities with enthusiasm, apply today!
About Us:
Mystic Café is grounded in Lewiston, ID, history. Located in the 1926 Morgan Bros. Coffee Roasters building on Main Street, Mystic incorporates the original hardwood floors, beams, and bricks walls to create a distinctive and engaging dining atmosphere in our newly expanded space. We feature seating for up to 200 in four unique dining areas, with seasonal outdoor seating.
Mystic Café offers a casual menu for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and a formal menu for dinner, featuring seasonally crafted specials with high-quality and thoughtfully sourced ingredients. Mystic is also home to a large selection of local and fine wines, along with 10 microbrews on tap from our custom steampunk piping tap system. Join us in our revamped espresso area for a quality cup of coffee with friends or at one of our live music events like Jazz Night or Open Mic Night on the elevated stage. We additionally offer wi-fi projection capabilities for groups and host private parties. Mystic is now available to accept reservations.
When you want quality, think Mystic Café. Learn more about us at themysticcafe.com.
Happy Day Restaurants corporation is a Lewiston, ID–based business founded in 1969 to bring the freshest products and most dynamic customer service experiences in the industry to our guests in the Inland Northwest. We operate 13 restaurants and a catering company in the LC Valley and on the Palouse and have won many regional and national awards for our businesses, including induction into the Idaho Hall of Fame in 2016.
HDR values our employees and offers a variety of opportunities, benefits, and services to help develop leadership qualities in each person. Community is our favorite word, and we give back frequently by supporting many local and regional non-profits and other community-based efforts.
We constantly strive to raise our standards and go the extra mile. If you want to be a part of this community of excellence, apply today! For more information about Happy Day, please visit happydayrestaurants.com.
Compensation: $9.00 plus tips, as well as a Happy Day VIP Discount Card.
Mystic Cafe
Mystic Café is a lively restaurant and coffeehouse in the heart of downtown Lewiston. For over 10 years, we’ve been more than just a place to eat—we’ve been a gathering space for community, creativity, and connection. From early-morning coffee service to bustling brunches and energetic dinner shifts, our team works together to deliver memorable experiences, often highlighted by live music on Friday evenings that transform the café into a lively atmosphere.
At Mystic, we celebrate local creativity by showcasing artwork in our dining room and highlighting seasonal featured artists. In the same way, we’re committed to serving fresh, clean, locally sourced food that reflects the very best of the Valley.
For employees, Mystic offers more than a job—it’s a chance to grow in a welcoming, creative environment while being part of something meaningful. Our team values passion, collaboration, and community, and together we keep Mystic Café a place where guests and staff alike can feel inspired, connected, and at home.
Company Website: themysticcafe.com
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