Five Points Bakery

Our famous fig tart. 🫶 shortbread crust with fig jam fresh figs and local goat cheese. Perfect for the fleeting summer season

HIRING!!
Bread Baker

Position Summary

Five Points Bakery is looking to hire an experienced bread baker to support our growing bakery.. You will be responsible for baking bread, pastries, doing prep, and keeping your station and equipment clean. This is a skilled trade that is instrumental in providing the base for every magical experience here.
We’re looking for a strong, independent, and positive individual. Our lead baker works on their own overnight and will need to be driven and able to problem solve on their own.

Responsibilities
*Bake multiple small batches of a variety of primarily whole wheat bread five days a week
*Mix, shape and bake our sourdough croissants, and sourdough levain
*Prepare a variety of pastries according to recipe
*Create and adapt your own bake lists to the needs of the bakery.
*You will be working overnight for approximately 6.5 hours a day between the hours of 11pm and 9am
*Comply with strict company standards on quality and safety.
Keeping all tools and equipment clean.

Qualifications
*Experience with baking bread and pastries
*Experience with croissants
*A proven track record of working independently
*Knowledge and experience with commercial baking equipment.

Hours & Compensation
*Full time 30-40 hours a week (depends on how efficiently you work).
*Starting salary between $750 and $1000 per week based on experience
*$500 per month toward company Health insurance policy
*Paid vacations (1 week starting after 1 year, 2 weeks after 3)
*Automatic 3% annual raise

How to Apply
You can submit a resume on our website www.fivepointsbakery.com

About the Company
Five Points Bakery was founded in 2009 and has five principles that we apply to everything we do: Simple, Honest, Timeless, Balanced and Really Freaking Good. We create the most magical, memorable, and delicious experiences you can have at a bakery/cafe. We started this company on the lower west side, where we live and raised our family to create a place for neighbors to meet, have a cup of coffee and some good food. We are committed to supporting local vendors, organic ingredients, as well as sustainable and environmentally friendly practices. Our company is focused on the experience of the staff as well as our customers. We all work around one big table, creating a close knit team. We have a very low turnover and many of our staff have been with us for years. Whether it's the pay, the people, the free food while you work, the free bread to take home every week, the $20 on time bonus or the company paid employee parties, working here isn't just a good job, it is one of the best you will ever have.

Five Points Bakery & Toast Cafe Everything deserves respect, from farmers to people, buildings, neighborhoods and ways of life. Nothing means more to us at Five Points than creating that space in which we can all find that something that is calling to us.

Figs!Figs!Figs! It’s time. We’re flush with fresh figs from Five Points very own Turkish fig tree. Stay tuned for all the figgy specials coming up

Chili oil toast for this lovely day.
Multigrain Avocado Bacon Soft Boiled Egg

Happiest of Anniversaries to Five Points! We’re 15 today. ♥️ So many have passed through our doors and this neighborhood. And while we’re just a bakery we’ve always felt that what we do here is so much more than bread and cookies. We love to be all things to all people, to meet whatever comes our way with an open heart and some old school Five Points determination. We offer thanks to all who’ve helped shape this place. We’re truly grateful.

Soda Bread time 🙌🙌🙌
Available in large or small sizes. Stop in or call ahead to place your order.

Our take on the classic avocado toast. Deconstructed always. It’s timeless, simple, balanced, honest and really freaking good. Which, in case you were wondering are the 5 points to Five Points.

We’re here and the sun is providing that lovely morning light. I just love this space.

We’re here will croissants, toast and plenty of coffee ♥️

Who’s storm prepping? We’ve got you covered on the bread and pastries front. Give us a call to reserve your order.

Holiday hours
12.22-12.24
8am-3pm
♥️

Sending gift cards by post! Give us a call and we can drop them in the mail for you, and even write a wintertime note.

First for holiday treats the double chocolate peppermint cookie.
We will also have our panettone, cranberry tarts, gingerbread cut outs and my personal favorite the Five Points fruitcake. Stay tuned

Toast special= cranberry salsa with ricotta avocado and turkey ♥️

We love a snow day at the cafe. Lots of peppermint mochas and gingerbread lattes and fresh sourdough and challah ♥️

We built a straw bale addition inside of which we built a super insulated room for our walk in cooler. Due to the incredible insulation and CoolBot which overrides the minimum temp settings we are able to keep it at 37 degrees all year with just a small air conditioner.

Monarch butterflies can fly over 3000 miles in their migration south for the winter. Before they do, some stop at Five Points to lay their eggs on our milkweed. Creating magical experiences; it’s what we do.

It’s potato parsley cheddar bread season around here. Soup is calling

Make today croissant day. Almond chocolate fresh fig double chocolate and plain. All sourdough all lovely ♥️

Now available. IYKYK. Stop in or place an order to reserve a loaf.

Putt Putt Parties are just one of the benefits of working at Five Points. $15/hr plus tips to start, 2 free meals a day, paid vacation, free loaf of bread every week, an upbeat, positive, inclusive environment, and more. Apply on our website www.fivepointsbakery.com today or drop off a resume.

The vines we grow on the south face of our building provide natural air conditioning which conserves energy. It also provides habitat for birds and insects as well as creating magical dappled lighting inside.

Putting fun stickers on drinks to go was such a great idea from our barista team. It’s a small thing but brings countless smiles to our customers.

Our Night Blooming Cerus opened one of its three flowers last night and it was truly magical. Another one will open tonight. Starting around 8 pm, the bloom will be fully open by 10pm. It’s right by our front door; stop by and enjoy this one night only bloom if you want. It’s powerful fragrance is heady and very unique, and the bloom is incredibly intricate and massive. We will leave the lights on.

First fig of the season ♥️