Employment
Come work for Boston's 1st Artisan Bread Bakery
James Beard Nominated, 14x Best of Boston
Retail Staff
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Interested candidate must be available mornings and evenings, as scheduled shifts are subject to change.
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Weekend availability is required. Prior retail food experience is a must, as well as an appreciation for local food and serving our Brookline community.
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Candidate must be extremely detail oriented, as the primary goal is to maintain our bread and pastry displays throughout the course of each shift.
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Reliable transportation is needed for shifts that start and end during hours the T does not run.
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"The years I spent baking at Clear Flour Bread in Brookline, Mass., were sky-blue. What a great job. Startlingly physical, to begin with, with plenty of hauling and swabbing and rushing around; the bakery itself was like a ship in a Patrick O’Brian novel, fierce and insular, microcultural, every moment accounted for, every inch of space pressed into service. You sweated and clanked, and the flour flew up in slow clouds, until everyone’s face had received a kind of aristocratic powdering. The rewards were enormous: the fine, fuse-like crackle of a rack full of handsome brittle baguettes, which you have just pulled out of the oven — that’s a beautiful sound.
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From my fellow bakers, those yeasty intellectuals, I learned about industry and cohesion and the moral obligation to be cheerful. The last lesson was the most important, and extended out of the bakery and into life. If you’re depressed, maimed, crocked in some way, fair enough — let us know. But if not, then in the name of humanity stop moaning. Keep a lightness about you, a readiness. Preserve the digestions of your co-workers; spare them your mutterings and vibings. It’s highly nonliterary, but there we are: Be nice."
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- James Parker, New York Times
Bread Bakers
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We are always accepting applications for bread bakers with some background in scratch baking and working with sourdoughs and preferments to join our friendly team at Clear Flour Bread. We will train, but applicant must at least have some restaurant kitchen experience.
Since 1982, we have been a family-owned and operated, nationally recognized artisan bakery that specializes in creating the authentic breads of Italy, France and Germany. We serve them with unparalleled service to our Brookline neighborhood as well as to wholesale accounts in the greater Boston metropolitan area.
The position offered is 40 hours a week, full time only.
The starting shift times vary depending on the need of the bakery. A starting schedule will include one or possibly both weekend days. Bakers must be able to work all times of day as their skills increase.