Do you believe there’s nothing better than coming home exhausted and feeling like you’ve done the best you can in a day’s work? Are you motivated by smiles and the sound of “mmmmmmm, this is delicious”? Do you want to be covered in flour and chocolate?

If you’d like to make a career at Muddy’s Bake Shop, please read below to see job postings and necessary qualifications. If there are no postings below, there are no available positions.

Necessary characteristics regardless of position:

Every team-member must:

• be interested in working long-term.  We are not accepting applications for seasonal or temporary employment at this time.  We want to build a business where the employees and customers have a relationship and this is not possible when employees leave after only a year!
• be punctual, dependable, and mature
• take responsibility for own actions
• be able to prioritize and efficiently organize tasks
• have a strong work ethic and desire to excel
• be friendly with a positive outlook
• be willing to go the extra mile for team members
• behave professionally and work well with others
• have strength of character and a desire to serve
• have a great attitude and LOTS of energy
• work extra hours during peak bakery times (weekends and before all major holidays).  We do close the bakery Thanksgiving weekend as well as a week after Christmas so employees can spend time with their families, but we need all hands on deck beforehand.
• have a sense of humor and approach work with joy & enthusiasm
• leave the drama at the door!
• love people.  You will interact with a huge variety of people, most awesome and really nice, but some having bad days or going through things we don’t know about and can’t understand.  You must be able to embrace all types of people and love them, even when it’s not easy!

POSITIONS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE:

Full time baker: Mondays 9am-4pm; Tuesdays through Fridays 7am-2pm; $10 hour starting wage
You will bake cookies and cakes and pies, ice cupcakes, and more!  Candidates must be high-energy people with keen eyes for detail and positive attitudes.  The ideal candidate takes pride in a job well done, works well with others, and is extremely dependable.  Please, only apply if you are looking for long term (2+ years) employment and want to be a key part of a local family business.

Part time-ish baker: Mondays 9am-4pm, Tues/Fri/Sat noon-7pm (28 hours week); $10 hour starting wage
You will ice cakes and cupcakes, make all kinds of yummy items, make sure the case stays stocked, and do more dishes than you can count!  Candidates must be high-energy people with keen eyes for detail and positive attitudes.  The ideal candidate takes pride in a job well done, works well with others, and is extremely dependable.  Please, only apply if you are looking for long term (2+ years) employment and want to be a key part of a local family business.

If you would like to apply for a position, please send your resume as well as a Word doc or PDF explaining why you want to work at Muddy’s in 250-500 words to eat(at)muddysbakeshop.com.  Please indicate WHICH position(s) you are applying for; if there are no open positions posted then we are not hiring.  Thanks!

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Some further information for future staff:
The food service business is HARD and it takes people with a real passion for the work, a strong work ethic, and a lot of energy in order to make it a lasting career.  Most people who begin in the business don’t make it- they can’t handle the hours, the physical demands, and the stress of customer service (some folks assume if you’re serving food it’s because you’re unqualified for anything else).  It takes a very special person to find contentment in this industry and we at Muddy’s are very choosy about whom we hire.

Benefits: we are a small business trying to improve the benefits we can offer.  We currently participate in the Church Health Center Memphis Plan for health coverage.  We are closed on Sundays and you will never be asked to work on that day (during peak seasons we do offer completely optional shifts on Sunday afternoons to do miscellaneous prep work if you wish to supplement your income).  We are closed Thanksgiving weekend, the week after Christmas, and a week in the summer in order to allow designated time for staff to take vacations, spend holiday time with family, etc.  We are beginning a pilot profit-share program in January 2011.  We hope to increase the benefits we can offer to staff, but in order to do so we need our staff to be committed to excellence and frugal in expenses so that we can build these things into the budget.  It is a team effort!

It’s Harder Than It Looks: I may be beating a dead horse here, but I really can’t stress this enough.  We get so many applicants who think “oh, it’d be so FUN to make cupcakes all day!” and it just isn’t that easy.  While we do have a lot of fun at work, there is no standing around and slow people get weeded out.  No one “oh-isn’t-this-fun” ices cupcakes… they “go go go” ice a thousand cupcakes (while the person standing next to them does the same).  We make thousands of cupcakes each day, plus hundreds of cookies, and loads of pies, cakes, etc and each staffer is expected to contribute a fair share to keep the baked goods coming.  I don’t say any of this to be discouraging, but anyone who applies to work in the bakery needs to know the Real Deal and the workload involved.  It is fast-paced and stressful.  We do have fun though, really.