About This Role
This butcher/meat cutter position is a crucial part of executing accurate prep with consistency and quality control to ensure every guest has a memorable meal. You will be responsible for portioning and breaking down sub-primals into various cuts of meat, creating charcuterie trays, and producing custom sausages.
Responsibilities
- Sharpen and adjust cutting equipment
- Receive, inspect, and store meat upon delivery
- Cut, bone, or grind pieces of meat
- Weigh, wrap, and display cuts of meat
- Cut or prepare meats to specification or customer's orders
- Store meats in refrigerators or freezers at the required temperature
- Keep inventory of meat sales and order meat supplies
- Twice daily check dry age room humidity and room temperature
- Rotate dry aged products and log product details
- Log weights of product and track waste and portioning
- Clean equipment and work areas to maintain health and sanitation standards
- Complete opening and closing duties as assigned, including:
- Set up physical aspect of station
- Make preparation list of necessary food items
- Requisition all listed food items and transport from walk-in, etc. to assigned station
- Check quality and quantity of all stock and supplies
- Ensure cleanliness and condition of assigned station
- Follow supervisor's instruction
- Follow maintenance program and cleaning schedule
- Alert Chef or Sous Chef as to any deficiencies of food items
- Notify management of any pertinent information related to shift activities
Requirements
- Minimum of 18 years of age
- Ability to satisfactorily communicate verbal and written English with Guests, management and co-workers
- Ability to maintain complete knowledge of the following:
- All required cutting techniques
- All menu and special items, their preparation method/time, all ingredients and quality standards, taste, appearance, texture, temperature, garnish and method of presentation
- Correct maintenance and use of food serving and preparation equipment
- 2 years experience as a butcher
- Food Handlers Card
- Ability to understand co-workers service needs
- Ability to be well organized, maintain concentration and think clearly when providing service to co-workers
- Ability to focus attention to performance of tasks despite frequent, stressful or unusual interruptions
- Ability to assemble and disassemble food preparation and cooking equipment to restaurant standards
