Food Service Team Leader - Amherst, OH

Food Service Team Leader

The pay range is $21.75 - $37.00 per hour.

Target provides comprehensive health benefits to eligible team members and their dependents—including medical, vision, dental, and life insurance—along with 401(k), employee discount, short‑term and long‑term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. More benefits information is available at

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. Target’s vision is carried out through its core values and culture.

The Food & Beverage team ensures guests receive fresh, accurately priced, and consistently stocked products. The team handles replenishment, inventory accuracy, food safety, presentation, pricing, and promotional signing for all Food & Beverage areas.

• Guest service fundamentals and building a guest‑first culture.
• Food & Beverage business fundamentals: department sales trends, freshness and quality, inventory management, guest shopping patterns, pricing and promotions strategies.
• Planning daily/weekly workload to support business priorities and deliver sales.
• Leading a team of hourly team members—interviewing, developing, coaching, evaluating, and retaining talent.

• Understand sales goals, plan and execute daily/weekly workload to deliver department and store sales goals and guest engagement.
• Work a schedule that aligns to guest and business needs, including early morning, evening, overnight shifts and weekends.
• Assign daily tasks to team members based on planned workload and guest traffic patterns, ensuring alignment with weekly and monthly business priorities set by the direct leader.
• Assess Food Service back‑of‑house, production areas, dining spaces, and merchandising spaces to ensure food safety and proper inventory levels.
• Walk Food & Beverage Standards and Food Service routines daily to assess priorities and review reporting to identify business gaps for follow-up.
• Follow all food safety requirements and cleaning routines, including monitoring and recording temperature‑sensitive food items.
• Validate and follow‑up on team members’ progress against department checklists and routines.
• Lead the team to uphold and maintain all Starbucks and Pizza Hut Brand Standards and production specifications (where applicable).
• Foster a productive relationship with your Starbucks district manager, attend required in‑store planning and business meetings, and follow up on key takeaways.
• Ensure accurate in‑stocks by placing store‑initiated orders according to best practices.
• Follow proper perishable inventory management procedures to ensure an accurate recording of inventory.
• Make production quantity decisions just‑in‑time to ensure freshness, in‑stocks, sales, and profitability are achieved consistently.
• Remain up‑to‑date on relevant trends and products to educate team members.
• Participate in team hiring and onboarding processes.
• At the direction of the direct leader, establish clear goals and expectations and hold team members accountable.
• Complete all Starbucks and/or Pizza Hut training requirements and certifications, in addition to Food Safety Manager Certification.
• Demonstrate a culture of ethical conduct, safety and compliance; lead the team to work in the same way.
• Lead and demonstrate a safety culture through modeling and recognizing safe behaviors, identifying and correcting hazards, and assisting with incident response.
• Demonstrate inclusivity by valuing diverse voices and approaches, being authentic, respectful, and creating equitable experiences.
• Guide the team in executing all best practices and help close skill gaps through development, coaching and interaction.
• Model the execution of physical security processes to enhance the in‑store security culture.
• Support merchandise protection strategies across the total store, including ordering, storage, and application as directed by best practices.
• Follow all safe and secure training and processes if carrying key responsibilities.
• Address all store emergency and compliance needs.
• Access all areas of the building to respond to guest or team member issues.
• Support guest services…