Summerhill Market is a boutique grocery store chain in Toronto that specializes in scratch-made prepared foods and on-trend ingredients. Our stores go above and beyond a typical grocery store by offering an extensive rotating selection of ready-to-eat gourmet meals, freshly baked goodies, and curated hard to find groceries.
Summerhill Market are seeking a versatile and detail-oriented professional who can combine culinary expertise, nutritional knowledge, and data management skills to support our kitchen operations and nutritional programs. This hybrid role is ideal for someone passionate about creating healthy, delicious meals while ensuring accurate nutrition analysis and efficient data entry to maintain our recipe, inventory, and compliance databases.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare and cook high-quality meals in accordance with seasonal menus, dietary needs, and organizational guidelines.
- Ensure food safety and hygiene standards are met at all times (in line with HACCP or local food safety regulations).
- Assist with menu development, including sourcing and testing new recipes that align with nutritional requirements.
- Oversee portion control, presentation standards, and consistency in food quality.
- Collaborate on designing nutritionally balanced menus for a variety of dietary needs (e.g., vegetarian, gluten-free, allergen-free).
- Conduct nutritional analysis for recipes, ensuring compliance with labeling and dietary guidelines.
- Advise on ingredient substitutions to accommodate allergies, health concerns, or cultural preferences.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of nutrition science and food trends.
- Accurately input recipes, nutritional data, and inventory information into digital systems (POS, inventory software, or spreadsheets).
- Maintain accurate food cost, supplier, and stock records for reporting purposes.
- Track and update allergen information and nutritional labels.
- Support administrative reporting on food waste, procurement, and menu costing.
Equity Statement:
At Summerhill Market, we are an equal opportunity employer that values and encourages diversity in the workplace. We provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and Employees and do not discriminate on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, record of offences, marital status, family status, disability or any other characteristic protected by local law. Should you require an accommodation at any point during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will be happy to accommodate.
Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 6 months
Work Location: In person
