Future Opening: Restaurant Cafe Manager
Full Time • Peekskill
Café Manager – Peekskill Coffee House (Peekskill, NY)
Do you love coffee and people?
Are you a confident, committed leader ready to build and inspire a team that provides exceptional service every day?
Are you a confident, committed leader ready to build and inspire a team that provides exceptional service every day?
If so, Peekskill Coffee is looking for a Full-Time Café Manager — and we’d love to meet you.
About Us
Since 2003, the Peekskill Coffee House has held a special place in the heart of downtown Peekskill. For over two decades, we’ve served handcrafted coffee, crepes, panini, and waffles with exceptional hospitality and care. Our mission is to unite our community and inspire our team through authentic connection, quality, and kindness.
We’re looking for a values-driven leader who shares our passion for people, coffee, and creating memorable experiences.
What You’ll Bring
- 2+ years of recent café or restaurant management experience
- Proven experience managing and developing a large team (15+ employees, PT and FT) in a café or restaurant setting
- Experience interviewing, hiring, training, and developing staff
- Ability to create, manage, and maintain staff schedules
- Knowledge of restaurant operations and finances
- Mastery of time management and task prioritization in a fast-paced environment
- Exceptional communication skills — direct, clear, and kind
- Hands-on leadership style with a focus on feedback, accountability, and recognition
- Strong hospitality mindset and commitment to service excellence
- Emotional intelligence and people-first leadership
- Proficiency in Excel and Word
- High school diploma or GED required
Availability
- 5 days per week (40–45 hours) on site
- Flexible schedule including some evenings (until 7pm), weekends, holidays, and early mornings (6am)
- At least 2–3 floor shifts per week (4–8 hours each)
Who You Are
- Adaptable and positive — you uplift and motivate others
- Team-oriented — you care about the greater good
- Open to feedback and accountability
- Committed to self-improvement and growth
- Emotionally aware and able to stay calm under pressure
- Focused, detail-oriented, and quick to learn
- Tech-comfortable and eager to master café systems
- Able to balance the big picture with day-to-day details
Bonus Points
- Experience in the coffee industry
- Food Safety Management Certification
What We Offer
Peekskill Coffee’s core values — Commitment, Unity, Inspiration, Kindness, and Gratitude — are the foundation of everything we do.
You’ll join a positive, collaborative environment supported by the Owner, Operations Manager, Team Leads, and many long-term staff members who care deeply about their work.
You’ll join a positive, collaborative environment supported by the Owner, Operations Manager, Team Leads, and many long-term staff members who care deeply about their work.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee all café operations: sales, service, staff, communication, inventory, equipment, and safety
- Uphold Peekskill Coffee’s core values, mission, and policies
- Create and manage staff schedules, time-off requests, and coverage
- Lead hiring, onboarding, training, and retention of team members
- Conduct regular one-on-one check-ins with staff
- Maintain open communication with employees, customers, vendors, and leadership
- Participate in weekly, monthly, and quarterly meetings
- Identify and implement operational improvements proactively
- Review sales and labor reports to guide decision-making
- Manage inventory, purchasing, and vendor relationships
- Handle POS systems (front and back end)
- Prepare weekly reports on sales, labor, waste, and highlights
- Collaborate with Senior Team Leaders to maintain smooth operations
- Demonstrate entrepreneurial problem-solving while following leadership direction
Work Environment
This is a fast-paced café setting that requires standing for long periods, lifting up to 25 lbs, and frequent movement throughout the day. You’ll interact regularly with staff and customers and may encounter temperature changes from cooking or seasonal conditions.
Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
Join us in leading a team that unites, inspires, and serves our community with heart — one cup at a time.
☕ Apply today and grow with Peekskill Coffee.
https://peekskillcoffee.com/pages/jobs
☕ Apply today and grow with Peekskill Coffee.
https://peekskillcoffee.com/pages/jobs
Compensation: $65,000.00 - $75,000.00 per year
Who We Are
Peekskill Coffee's Mission is to Serve its Community Great Coffee and Food, by a Friendly Staff in a Space that is Inviting to All.
Our Core Values
Peekskill Coffee is Committed to Unite and Inspire, Authentically with kindness and Gratitude
Our Core Values
Peekskill Coffee is Committed to Unite and Inspire, Authentically with kindness and Gratitude
Our History
Owner Sunny Cover established the Peekskill Coffee House in 2003. The city was lacking anywhere for the community to gather and meet, not to mention somewhere to get a good cup of coffee. Sunny and her neighbors partnered up and started working on creating such a place and so The Peekskill Coffee House was born. Peekskill warmly embraced this new business. Starting out as just a coffee house, serving only coffee, bagels, and pastries it was an immediate success. The Peekskill Coffee House has since been a cornerstone for the redevelopment of downtown Peekskill and is referred to often as "Peekskill's Living Room."
Sunny took the reins in 2009, buying out her partners, and becoming sole proprietor. The Peekskill Coffee House expanded the menu, at that time, to include paninis and seized the opportunity to further expand in 2012 by introducing crepes, waffles and smoothies.
In 2018, Peekskill Coffee began exploring the potential benefits of roasting our coffee in-house. Starting at a shared roasting facility in Brooklyn, the business gradually transitioned to roasting 100% of its own coffee origins and blends.
Despite the challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, opportunities were found to expand again in 2021. Two sister companies were incorporated, The Peekskill Coffee Roasting Company (PCRC) and Ryze Collective, These additions, both located in Peekskill, offer more opportunities for those in the coffee industry and provide support for The Peekskill Coffee House as well as other coffee related businesses. PCRC serves as the wholesale coffee division. Ryze Collective Inc. provides a shared roasting facility, allowing support for local small to mid-size coffee professionals to roast and grow their own businesses.
The company's core values have been pivotal to The Peekskill Coffee House's success. This is done through commitment to quality, uniting with employees, being inspired to make changes, encouraging authenticity, always being kind and showing gratitude. Through these shared values the Peekskill Coffee House has been able to foster a caring community and cultivate relationships that have stood the test of time. The trust of our dedicated employees and loyal customers has been essential to our continued success. At The Peekskill Coffee House, we hire individuals who share our values and our passion for community, outstanding customer service and quality.
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Paid Time Off
Sick Pay and NYPFL
Entry level starts at minimum wage (Continuous raises as training and skill progress making $17 - $21 per hour)
Matching 401k after 1 year of employment
Employee Discount
Meal credit for 7+ hour shifts
Free bag of roasted coffee twice per month
Free Drink Shift Usage
Friends and Family Discount
Flexible schedule
Community connections
Skill building
Coffee knowledge
No uniform dress code
Positive team company culture