Culinary Cook - assisted living and retail setting

Job Description: Your job is to prepare 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.

NOTE: Part time position Fri, Sat, Sun

HOURS: 8-4pm

Responsibilities: Culinary Cooks are in charge of preparing hot meals, cold foods, including vegetables, salads and fruits for our assisted living program and guests at our health and wellness Center This includes preparing these ingredients for more complicated recipes – such as chopping onions, peeling potatoes and crushing garlic and constructing dishes based on our menu

Provide Customer Service: Culinary 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 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 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 menu 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 in the Culinary Arts or related experience in food preparation
• Manual dexterity to ensure proper operation of kitchen utensils and cutting tools
• Effective communication skills
• Proficient in English
• Adept at performing tasks well in a fast-paced environment
• Able to spend continual time standing

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $14.00 per hour

Expected hours: No less than 40 per week

Benefits:

• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Paid sick time
• Paid time off
• Paid training
• Referral program

Shift:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Morning shift

Experience:

• Cooking: 1 year (Required)