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If you've ever wanted to join the Downtown Campbell family, we've got a bunch of opportunities for you. A number of our shops are looking for help and there are a lot of different types of positions available.

The Art Beat

Art Studio Assistant - Part Time

Do you love art and kids? If so, The Art Beat is the place for you.

We're a friendly creative space with open studio hours and parties on the weekends and we have a permanent part-time position for a "people person" with an outgoing and upbeat personality to help people enjoy a day or night off in our studio. Retail, restaurant, customer service, or teaching experience are pluses for this job. We're looking for someone for 15 to 20 hours a week including Friday nights, Saturdays, Sundays, and some holidays. Weekend availability is a must.

Compensation will be based on experience. Training will be provided.

Responsibilities:

• Greeting all studio visitors and customers
• Assisting customers with choosing and completing items
• Booking & hosting birthday parties, field trips and special events
• Operating the cash register system
• Preparing pottery and other art projects for pick-up
• Answering the telephone.
• Maintaining a clean work environment
• Stocking pottery and supplies
• Additional duties as assigned

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Redemption

Sales Associate - part time

Redemption is in search of sales associates who are flexible, self motivated, and possess great customer service skills for our shop of socially conscious goods crafted in California.

Qualifications:

• Previous retail experience
• Intelligent with an outgoing and sales friendly personality
• Ability to learn about a great range of brands and products within our store
• Part time up to 30 hrs/week

To apply, please email your resume to [email protected] and include a brief description about you and why you would be a great addition to our store. Qualifying inquiries will be called for an interview at the store.

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Embelish Hair Salon

Beauty Station for Rent - full or part time

Our ideal candidate will have their own established clientele. Rent includes all backbar and styling products, beverages for clients, online booking system,
website, and towel service.

Please call Isabel at 408.807.8300 to inquire.

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Boiler Maker

Line Cook / Prep Cook

We are looking for an energetic, passionate, dependable, and experienced line and prep cooks to join our Boiler Maker...Read More

Oh, we are bready for our close up in Downtown Campbell and the future is golden like a croissant and pillowy soft like a baguette right out of the oven. Sorry, pardon us, we’re just loopy from hitting the bread jackpot. We’re gonna need a bigger butter boat.

First Bagel Bar is coming in down the street and later this year, Manresa Bread will be taking over the spot vacated when la PanotiQ closed. Manresa Bread already has two popular bakeries in Los Gatos and Los Altos and they're already a known quantity in Downtown Campbell because they're regulars at the Sunday Farmers' Markets in Campbell.

Manresa Bread is an offshoot of the world famous three Michelin star, Manresa Restaurant, in Los Gatos.

Any fans of Vin Santo Ristorante of Willow Glen out there?

The owners of Vin Santo just opened a new restaurant in Downtown Campbell, Il Sogno, in the restaurant space that's shared with Campbell Brewing Company. They just had their first evening of being open for business last night. As you can see, they're still not quite finished yet (but they are open).

According to their Facebook page, Il Sogno is an Italian influenced tapas style restaurant serving European style late night dinners and snacks with live music.

Welcome to Campbell Chef Umberto Pala, family, and crew!

Help the City of Campbell receive a $20,000 grant for park beautification as part of the National Park and Recreation Association's Meet Me At The Park contest. To nominate Campbell, go to the contest website here:
https://www.meetmeatthepark.org/pages/index.php

You'll need to go through a very basic registration and then it'll present you with a page with 15 cities on it. Campbell is not one of the 15 cities. You will be writing in a nomination for Campbell to be the 16th city. When the contest ends, one city from the list of 15 gets a $20,000 grant from the NPRA and Disney. The city that gets the most nominations will also get a $20,000 grant.

You may cast your vote once per day throughout the entire month of April. The contest ends on April 30th.

We're a little late to the party, but we'd like to put in some congratulations to "Sushi" Randy, the founder and chef behind the very popular Sushi Confidential restaurant in Campbell, for winning the Campbell Chamber of Commerce's 2018 Business of the Year Award.

Instead of telling you things that you probably already know about Sushi Confidential, we're going to print a transcript of the speech that Randy gave at the Celebrate Campbell event earlier this month upon accepting the award. It illustrates what rich and varied past lives many small business owners bring with them into their new life in retail. These stories and these experiences are the special sauce that make Downtown Campbell such a vibrant and inviting community.

Randy "Sushi Randy" Musterer

In 1997, I started my career as a Cancer Research Scientist. Over a 17 year span, I was able to help develop cancer therapies that are currently on the market today. So one of my biggest challenges switching from Cancer Research to “just making sushi”, was the potential feeling of losing my purpose in life to help others. To overcome this, I challenged myself and our organization, to produce something bigger and greater for society.

Downtown Campbell was our first location. We started off offering $40 gift cards to local schools for their fundraisers. I could see the excitement and appreciation from the schools, the parents, the community. Eventually, the donations grew into us offering $1500 sushi parties that would be auctioned off at their school fundraisers. Over the years, our brand became so strong, that these sushi parties would regularly fetch 2-3 times the actual value of the sushi party and we set a record for a $1500 sushi party that turned into a $13,000 donation.

At a number of these auctions, was the auction announcer, Randy Hahn, who is also the voice of the San Jose Sharks. We both quickly saw a synergy, “What if we leveraged the Sushi Confidential brand combined with Randy Hahn, a well spoken, famous face in the bay area, to create something positive and special for the community?

In 2016, Randy and I started our own philanthropy called The Randys’ 24 Hours of Sushi, Celebrity Charity Challenge. Even though we have only done this for a year, we have raised over $200,000 for local non-profits in the bay area. It is amazing what we can do when we put our minds to it!

I had the special privilege and pleasure of meeting and talking with Oprah a couple years ago. And something she said, has stuck with me. She said “Use the restaurant as a platform, a force for something positive and good! Your business is an energetic force in the community and you are responsible for the type of energy you create”.

It just takes a little creativity, a little desire, a little sacrifice, a little purpose in life, to be able to create a powerful tool to give back. Life is

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This past weekend was the 50th annual Celebrate Campbell "awards dinner" where we celebrate the people and organizations that make this little city such an wonderful place. One of the people that we celebrated was our very own Carol Pouya, who's the owner of Tessora's Barra di Vino, a board member of the Downtown Campbell Business Association (DCBA), and a volunteer. She typically works on things behind the scenes so most people don't know how much she does to contribute to the culture and atmosphere of Downtown Campbell.

I'll let the President of the DCBA, Andrea Buswell, tell you a bit more about, Carol Pouya, our honoree for 2018. Here's a copy of the introduction that Andrea gave in presenting the award to her.

Andrea Buswell, Owner of Frost Cupcake Factory

Carol puts her whole heart into everything she believes in including her business Tessora's Bara di Vino, her beautiful family, and the Downtown Campbell Business Association. Carol was in the dental field for 20 years, but decided to “retire” and follow her passion for wine along with her husband, Hamid. Tessora’s first opened in the Pruneyard in 2009 and when the opportunity came to move to Downtown Campbell, they jumped at the chance and opened on E Campbell Avenue in 2015. Tessora’s adds such a vibrant, welcoming charm to Downtown Campbell, and is truly a family run business. This strong, hard-working woman is also a mother of five, Jenni (who is also the head chef), Nikki (who runs the front of house as well as social media), Derick, Matthew and Nasheen, as well as a grandmother of 3….so far…and counting!

Carol has a way of making her customers feel important and “at home” and gives the ultimate customer service. She is a truly dedicated, hard-working woman who is always there, late nights or early mornings, without complaint. On top of this, she volunteers countless hours to the DCBA, and acts as the “Mom” of the board, which comes natural to her, for obvious reasons! She has been an integral part of the execution and success of First Fridays, the Wine Walks and all of our wonderful Downtown Campbell events. In fact, she is instrumental in organizing, scheduling and booking all of the music acts you enjoy on the streets of Downtown. (See what I did there.)

Carol has been such a welcome face, neighbor, friend, mentor, boss, wife, mother, grandmother and champion of all things Campbell. We are lucky to have her on the DCBA Board along with the rest of our scrappy little bunch, and honor her tonight with this well deserved recognition and induction into the admired group of Campbell Elite.

You may have noticed that we haven't been having any Second Saturday Artwalks or First Friday street entertainment events in 2018. Don't worry, they're not going away. We're just in the middle of our annual winter break for our street activities. From January through the end of March, we take a break from hosting street musicians and local artists and makers because of the colder weather, shorter days, and potential for rain outs.

First Fridays and Second Saturdays will resume in April as usual. If you're interested in participating either as a musician or as an artist/maker, please fill out one of our applications.

Downtown Campbell Street Entertainment Application
Music & performance for First Fridays, Second Saturdays, & other events

Second Saturday Artwalk Vendor Information Page
Please read about our vendor requirements and fill out an application to exhibit your art or wares on an upcoming Saturday.