Food Service Team Leader

Pay range: $21.75 - $37.00. Pay based on factors like labor markets, education, experience, certifications. Target invests in you: comprehensive health benefits, 401(k), employee discount, short & long‑term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, paid vacation. Learn more at

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The Food & Beverage team enables a consistent experience for our guests by ensuring the product is fresh, in stock, available and accurately priced and signed on the sales floor. They are experts in operations, process and efficiency. This team leads food and food services including replenishment, inventory accuracy, food safety, presentation, pricing and promotional signing processes for all Food & Beverage areas of the store.

• Guest service fundamentals and experience building a guest‑first culture on your team
• Food & Beverage business fundamentals: department sales trends, freshness and quality, inventory management, guest shopping patterns and pricing and promotion strategies
• Planning department(s) daily/weekly workload to support business priorities and deliver sales
• Leading a team of hourly team members; including skills in 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. Including planning food service transitions, revisions, sales plans, sampling, promotions and price change workload.
• Work a schedule that aligns to guest and business needs (early morning, evening, overnight shifts and weekends).
• Assign daily tasks to TMs based on planned workload and guest traffic patterns, ensuring alignment with weekly and monthly business priorities set by your 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, as outlined in Target’s policies and procedures.
• Validate and follow up on team members’ progress against department checklists and routines.
• Lead 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 (if applicable), attend required in‑store planning and business meetings and follow up on key takeaways from their time in your store.
• 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 direction of your direct leader, establish clear goals and expectations and hold team members accountable to expectations.
• In addition to Food Safety Manager Certification, complete all Starbucks and/or Pizza Hut training requirements and certifications.
• Demonstrate a culture of ethical conduct, safety and compliance; lead your team to work in the same way and hold others accountable to this commitment.
• Lead and demonstrate a safety culture through modeling and recognizing safe behaviors, identifying and correcting hazards, holding team accountable to following safety expectations, assisting with…