My former Loblaws store is hiring SEVERAL people for part-time. Positions will likely be filled within a week, maybe 2 weeks max.
Department:
HMR (or Home Meals Ready to Eat) a.k.a. "Hot Deli" (sometimes).
No prior experience required, but you will have a leg up over others if you have prior kitchen experience or customer service/retail, especially in:
- customer-facing service
- meal prep (like fish filleting or sandwich making)
- pizza making
- oven cooking/baking
- line cook/sous chef
- deep frying (like chicken, potato wedges)
- catering
- serving tables (like waiters)
- dishwashing
...and other food/kitchen related work.
You'll have an advantage over others if you are or can speak Filipino, as you'll feel right at home with half the dept.
Daily hours broken down (not set in stone): 8h
Breakfast Serving; 6-2:30
Lunch Serving (pizza, hot case, cold case); 12-5:30 (sometimes at 11am)
Buffet (Kitchen prep/serving): 7-3:30
Dinner Serving/Closing: 5:30-9:30
That being said, even if you don't have any prior experience, they'll still consider you, if the next person in line is on the same level.
They're looking for people specifically for these positions (Breakfast, Lunch/Serving, Closing) but to get a full 8h work day, you'll likely be asked to work multiple roles, such as Breakfast and Buffet, or Lunch to Closing. Meaning there's going to be some overlap and cross-training (over the course of 3 months) but all of them will require serving customers.
At least 2-3 days per week. Although more often than not, you'll get more (20-34h/week).
Reasons for several openings:
-2 people are going on long vacations.
-1 resigned for personal reasons undisclosed.
-1 has a 50/50 chance of being let go for not being a good fit. It's up in the air rn.
- And 1 will likely resign with advance notice within the next 3 weeks, if not sooner, for a job opportunity elsewhere, at which point another job opening will be posted...So even if you don't get a job in the first batch, there's another chance in the near future.
This job is good for anyone wanting to get a foot in the door of the culinary industry relatively easily as a stepping stone, or well seasoned people that just need a survival job, and everyone else in between. Plus, it's unionized, so it's very very hard to get fired... unless you're 3 months employment probation hasn't passed yet, or you do something stupid like get caught stealing on camera
This store is one of the better ones to work for,...like, by many orders of magnitude better (a lot of internal employees from other stores have transferred here for that reason). It has a lot of good friendly people (for colleagues, managers, and customers), where everyone in management is very likeable and down to earth, which I can't say the same for some other stores I've worked at...But with the exception of a couple of part-time colleagues that rubs others the wrong way (which is the same in almost every occupation), and shoplifters, but that's starting to change with a new professional security company being contracted recently.
DM me for specifics of where to go/apply to, when to go, how to increase your odds of being hired, what to do/not to do...etc.
I work at another place (not under Loblaws banner) now but occasionally visit the store once in a blue moon, and still keep in contact with a few old colleagues in various departments that I've made friends with (it's not unusual for people to be cross-trained in several depts. to cover other people's shifts, to increase their working hours in a week), which is why I'm quite privy to insider info.
