Santa Clara - 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 food—and grow your own future too. Top-performing Team Members can advance to General Manager in as little as 36 months.

What You’ll Do :

Deliver exceptional hospitality while supporting smooth restaurant operations—from 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

Minimum Requirements

What Perks You’ll Get

Who We Are :

Sweetgreen is a plant-forward food company with a vision for a healthier tomorrow—and we’re just getting started. As we grow, we’re committed to developing our people from restaurants to our support center so everyone can be part of the movement. When you join Sweetgreen, you don’t just grow your own future—you grow the planet’s.

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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