With new growth in the area, we have incredible employment opportunities for: Cook
Reports to: Food Service Manager or Chef
FLSA status: Nonexempt
Position Summary:
Produce visually appealing and good tasting foods to Guckenheimer standards. Prepare, season, and cook soups, meats, vegetables, desserts, or other foodstuffs as required. Serving customers during meal periods.
Qualifications:
• ServSafe certification
• Culinary School or Hospitality certification or work equivalent.
• 2 year providing excellent one on one customer service.
• Must be able to communicate with others to convey information effectively.
• Must be able to communicate in English with customers.
• 3 years food preparation experience.
• Ability to use basic computer programs for inputting and organizing data and menus.
Position Responsibilities:
• Maintain HACCP program requirements
• Season and cook food according to recipes and experience.
• Observe and test foods to determine if they have been cooked sufficiently, taking temperatures. Adjust seasoning to customer tastes.
• Weigh, measure, and mix ingredients according to recipes, using various kitchen utensils and equipment.
• Portion, arrange, and garnish food, and serve food to patrons.
• Regulate temperature of ovens, broilers, grills, and roasters.
• Substitute for or assist other cooks during emergencies or rush periods.
• Must follow all safety rules and actively prevent accidents.
• Commitment to the service values and ethics of the client company.
• Use of food cost control methods.
Essential Skills and Experience:
• Must be able to correctly and safely use standards kitchen equipment. Chefs’ knives; Convection ovens; Rotating rack ovens; Meat and cheese slicing machines, steamers, mandolins, grills and broilers.
• Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer service. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other
• techniques for food preparation.
• Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
• Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations
Nonessential Skills:
• Preparation of catered food.
• Menu planning for the café and catering.
• Costing of menu items and catering.
• Assisting with Inventory completion
• Commitment to scratch cooking and healthful foods.
• Product ordering and receiving.
• Identify new recipes for use.
Reporting to this position: None
Physical Demands and Work Environment:
• Must be able to lift a minimum of 25 #. Employee must be able to work on their feet 7.5 hour per day excluding breaks.
• Employee has to work under pressure and time deadlines during peak periods.
Guckenheimer embraces equal opportunity employment
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