Join our Portsmouth, NH Team
ABOUT Elephantine
Elephantine is a company for dreamers. We build modern cafés with an old-world approach, focusing on details that have for centuries evoked magic. What we do—handcrafting pastries, welcoming guests with genuine hospitality, creating beauty to delight the eye—makes working here rewarding. Why we do it—to contribute meaningfully to a better human experience for each of our guests—makes it radical.
We believe hospitality is a great human art form.
Our Principles
Improve continuously grapes either grow or die on the vine.
Demand excellence good enough is never good enough.
Demonstrate integrity how you do anything is how you do everything.
Current Openings
Front of House Team Member
Our Front of House (FoH) team is singularly focused on creating an exceptional guest experience. Every detail matters, starting with how a guest is greeted, to the arrangements of flowers, the display of the pastries, and the overall cleanliness of the space. Our FoH team exhibits authentic warmth and care towards customers, manages the flow of the entire operation, and maintains an organized and clean environment to support a superlative overall guest experience, from service to food to ambiance. This is a position that requires a keen attention to detail and an alignment of values with the core mission of Elephantine—to deliver transformative hospitality.
Back of House Team Member
Our Back of House operations include the following programs:
yeasted products (breads/viennoiseries)
non-yeasted pastries (cookies, cakes, scones, etc)
cuisine (breakfast, lunch and aperitivo)
Everything at Elephantine is scratch made. Our kitchen offers a unique, non-hierarchical approach to culinary work, and is an environment ideally suited to self-starters and people who enjoy to manage their own work flow while working collaboratively within a tight-knit team. We value attitude over skills, and many people who have started in our kitchen have never had any previous culinary work experience.
If you feel connected to what we are doing and are interested in learning more about it, we would love to hear from you.
Dishwasher
Our Dishwasher is an essential and esteemed part of our team; they are the piece of our operational puzzle that ensures that the bakery is running as smoothly and efficiently as possible.
The Dishwasher is responsible for washing and drying Front of House and Back of House dishes expeditiously and with great attention to detail, perpetuating a clean and organized workspace, and maintaining superb communication with the rest of the team.
If you’re interested in joining our Boston team, please apply here.