Culinary Assistant/Prep Cook

Job Description: Your job is to assist with preparing delicious dishes in our kitchen. You’ll complete routine kitchen tasks such as preparing workstations and ingredients so that our food matches the recipes. Our Culinary Assistant/Prep Cooks need to be able to follow instructions and all health and safety rules in our kitchen. Candidates required to be capable of functioning in a fast-paced team environment.

HOURS: Friday - Monday 9am to 3pm

Responsibilities:Culinary Assistant/Prep Cooks are in charge of preparing cold foods, including vegetables, salads and fruits. This includes preparing these ingredients for more complicated recipes – such as chopping onions, peeling potatoes and crushing garlic – which are then cooked by the more experienced chefs in the kitchen.

Provide Customer Service:Culinary Assistant/Prep Cooks sometimes work with wait staff and customers to address their concerns, such as mistakes made on a person’s order, quickly preparing a minor replacement dish, such as a salad, or conveying any more complicated issues to the rest of the kitchen staff.

Stock the Kitchen:Organizing, stocking and dating newly delivered ingredients are important tasks for Culinary Assistant/Prep Cooks. This ensures no time is wasted on the part of the kitchen staff when trying to locate key ingredients, as well as ensuring that the ingredients most readily available are the ones closest to expiration.

Maintain Records:Culinary Assistant/Prep Cooks are often asked to record and report the status of various ingredients. This includes letting management know when the kitchen is running low on supplies. They also must ensure the chef’s preparation requirements and production schedules are met, so the kitchen can run at maximum efficiency.

Core skills:

• Following orders promptly and efficiently
• Being able to spend hours on your feet, in places of extreme heat or cold
• Knowing state and federal regulations regarding safe food handling
• Managing stress
• Learning new skills quickly
• Measures ingredients and prepares them in accordance to chef’s specifications
• Washes and peels ingredients in order for them to be used in different meals
• Cuts and portions different types of meat according to specifications
• Prepares different types of food from the menu, following carefully the recipes
• Makes stock soups to be used during cooking process
• Prepares drinks and cocktails according to chef’s specifications
• Portions the food and prepares the dishes for plating
• Packages take-away food for clients
• Places food trays under food warmers, so that the food arrives in good conditions at the table
• Distributes the plates to be served to the waiting staff
• Accepts or rejects ingredients from food suppliers, based on their appearance and quality
• Keeps track of ingredient quantities and ensures there are always enough for the day/week
• Stores ingredients in dedicated containers, making sure that they are best preserved
• Informs superiors when the ingredients stock is getting low or when the kitchen tools do not work properly
• Cleans and sanitizes the working surfaces, tools, utensils and working area
• Carefully supervises the food temperature and the temperature from cooling rooms, to ensure that the ingredients kept are kept at the appropriate temperature
• Swipes the remaining food from plates and puts them in the dishwasher/washes them
• Vacuums/sweep dining area and washes the kitchen floor before closing

Experience:

• Background as a Culinary Assistant/Prep Cook or related experience
• Understanding of the operation of kitchen utensils and cutting tools
• Effective communication skills
• Proficient in English, bilingual is awesome
• Adept at performing tasks well in a fast-paced environment
• Able to spend continual time standing

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $12.50 per hour

Expected hours: 24 – 30 per week

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid sick time
• Paid time off
• Paid training
• Referral program
• Vision insurance

Shift:

• Day shift
• Morning shift

Experience:

• Cooking: 1 year (Required)