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Join our kitchen team and help with cooking, serving, and kitchen maintenance tasks!

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The experience

Join our kitchen team and help with cooking, serving, and kitchen maintenance tasks! This experience is great for gaining experience in restaurant work, and to interact with people from all over the world! We provide a variety of traditional foods which you can learn to prepare. Volunteering at our Soda provides a unique opportunity to be integrated into the local community by living with a local family, and to practice Spanish if you like!

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Cooking: Choose the menu, pick ingredients and cook delicious dishes.

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

What you get

2 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Discounts on Tours: Get discounts for tours and excursions around town.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Language lessons: Take free language classes at our place.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely

Dedicated Workspace: Specific space for you to work remotely

Requirements

Intermediate English and Intermediate Spanish

Over 19 years old

Only hosts solo volunteers (doesn’t accept couples or partners)

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

In Costa Rica, small local restaurants or eateries are called 'Sodas'. The Soda Curubanda works in collaboration with our tour centre Finca Curubanda, to give people from all over the world an authentic and adventurous experience of our country.
The soda serves a variety of typical Costa Rican dishes - often including fajitas de pollo, filet the pescado etc. in traditional 'casado style'.
Join us if you are passionate about cooking or restaurant work, or just want to learn more about our cuisine. Whatever your passions include; we are happy to talk and adapt your work as a volunteer to your interests.

Please note that for this position you will be living with a local family, which is a great immersion into the Costa Rican culture - but may require you to speak some spanish!

Activities & Shift

You will be working 5 days a week, with a lunch break each day. Jobs include: serving, cashier, kitchen hand, cleaning, waiter/waitress. The schedule is flexible so let us know which times you would prefer to work and we can try and we fit you in the schedule accordingly!

Rules

We hope that you are able to respect the health and sanitation levels and practices of our workplace.