Food & Beverage Trainer
Full-Time, Salaried - Field-Based - Extensive Regional Travel*
Rusty Lantern Markets is seeking a hands-on Food & Beverage Trainer to help train, coach, certify, and develop our Food & Beverage teams across our locations.
This is a field-based role for someone who enjoys working directly alongside employees and managers in an active kitchen environment. The Food & Beverage Trainer will support new employee onboarding, ongoing skills development, certification, operational execution, and the development of future Food & Beverage leaders.
What You'll Do
- Deliver hands-on training and certification for Food & Beverage team members, Kitchen Leads, Kitchen Managers, and Food & Beverage Managers.
- Coach teams on food quality, recipes, portion control, production planning, food safety, cleanliness, and operational standards.
- Reinforce proper waste, shrink, receiving, inventory, and food cost practices.
- Help managers understand how daily operational decisions impact sales, margin, labor, waste, shrink, and profitability.
- Coach teams on product knowledge, suggestive selling, sampling, customer engagement, promotions, Loyalty, and other sales-building initiatives.
- Support Kitchen Managers and Food & Beverage Managers with leadership and team development.
- Provide hands-on training and support for new products, equipment, programs, SOPs, and company initiatives.
- Identify training and execution opportunities and provide ongoing coaching and follow-up.
What We're Looking For
- Strong foodservice, restaurant, convenience foodservice, or comparable operational experience.
- Experience training, coaching, or developing employees and managers.
- Strong knowledge of food preparation, food safety, portion control, inventory, waste, shrink, and food cost.
- Strong communication, coaching, organization, and follow-up skills.
- A hands-on approach and the ability to teach by demonstrating, observing, coaching, and providing feedback.
- Ability to work independently and travel extensively throughout an assigned region.
- Valid driver's license and reliable transportation.
- Flexibility to work varying schedules based on training and operational needs.
- ServSafe Manager Certification required.
The Opportunity
This position is an opportunity to make a direct impact on our Food & Beverage business by developing people, strengthening operational execution, improving financial understanding, and helping build the next generation of Food & Beverage leaders at Rusty Lantern Markets.
- This position is posted company wide and does require that the candidate be comfortable with extensive travel throughout Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Providence, Rhode Island.