Floor Staff (casual)

Cà Phê Mai, Double Bay

About the venue

Cà Phê Mai is a contemporary Vietnamese cafe by day and natural wine bar by night, on Kiaora Lane in Double Bay. We opened in June. In October the Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide named us a finalist for New Restaurant of the Year, and listed us in both the 100 Essential Restaurants and the 10 Essential Cafes for 2027. We would like you to help us keep earning it.

Hours

Monday: takeaway coffee only
Tuesday to Saturday: 11am to 10pm
Sunday: 11am to 3pm

The food and drink

The cooking is contemporary Vietnamese, seen through a Viet Kieu lens: the way the diaspora cooks here, with Australian produce and a wine list on the other side of the pass. Lunch is bánh mì, phở, laksa and vermicelli bowls. Dinner moves into wine bar territory: raw and cold plates, hot plates to share, a roast, a braise and a short dessert list. The menu moves with the seasons.

The wine list is natural and low-intervention, French and Australian mostly, poured properly at the table. The cocktails are built on classic structures with Vietnamese ingredients. The coffee is Single O. You will learn all of it.

About the role

You are the person the guest remembers. You take the table from greeting to bill, you know the menu well enough to steer someone, and you can sell a bottle of Jura Chardonnay at 8pm with the same ease you drop a laksa at 1pm. Lunch is quick and busy. Dinner is slower, warmer and more about the drinks. We care about a quiet Tuesday as much as a full Saturday night.

What you’ll do

- Run your section across lunch and dinner service

- Take orders,



run food and drinks, transparent and reset, close the bill

- Talk guests through the menu, the wine list and the cocktails, and recommend with confidence

- Open wine at the table and pour it properly

- Set the room up in the morning and close it down at night

- Look after regulars, Forum residents and the people who work in the building

- Keep the floor clean, stocked and ready between services

Who we’re after

- At least a year on the floor in a busy cafe, restaurant or wine bar

- Interested in wine, and keen to learn more. You do not need to know your Savagnin from your Chardonnay yet, but you need to want to

- Warm, quick and unflustered. You read a table before it asks

- Comfortable moving between daytime cafe pace and evening wine bar service

- Current NSW RSA

- Available across lunch and dinner, Tuesday to Sunday. Friday and Saturday nights are essential

What’s on offer

- Casual, $35 to $38 an hour plus super depending on experience, under the Restaurant Industry Award. Saturday, Sunday and public holiday penalties on top

- Floor share of tips

- Around 20 to 30 hours a week, rostered in Deputy with two weeks’ notice

- Wine, cocktail and coffee training from the people who built each list

- Staff meal on shift, coffee whenever you want it

- Closed Mondays. Bar closes 10pm, last seating 9.30pm

- A room that has already been noticed, and owners who are on the floor with you

Send a CV and a few lines about why you want to work here to ••••@caphemai.com.au.

Instagram: instagram.com/ca.phe.mai
Website: caphemai.com.au

📌 Floor Staff - Contemporary Vietnamese Cafe and Wine Bar, Double Bay
🏢 Ca Phe Mai
📍 Double Bay