About This Role
Cooking in accordance with federal, state, and corporate standards is the core of this full-time position. The Cook ensures quality food service is provided at all times, preparing high-quality food items to meet production, delivery, and service schedules.
Responsibilities
- Prepare high-quality food items according to standardized recipes and instructions to meet production, delivery, and service schedules
- Serve meals or prepare for delivery by using correct portioning, meeting outlined standards, ensuring that food is at the correct temperature and is attractive and tasty
- Taste all prepared food items
- Use established ticket collection procedures during service
- Be responsible for records from area worked during service periods
- Clean kitchen after preparation and serving, maintaining high standards of cleanliness
- Store or discard excess food in accordance with safe food-handling procedures
- Keep refrigerators and storerooms clean and neat
- Ensure food and supply items are stored per standards
- Operate and maintain kitchen equipment as instructed
- Assist in production planning, record keeping and reporting as required
- Assist in the ordering and receiving of all food and supplies as required
- Report needed maintenance, faulty equipment or accidents to the supervisor immediately
- Attend in-service and safety meetings
- Maintain good working relationships with coworkers, customers, administrators and managers
- Perform job safely while maintaining a clean, safe work environment
- Perform other duties as assigned
- Ensure proper presentation, portion control and maintenance of serving temperatures; follow HACCP standards
- Commit personally to your own safety and that of others
- Abide by all Company policies and procedures including but not limited to: The use of a medium weight cut gloves when handling or using knives, peelers, choppers, mandolins or cleaning a slicer; The use of oven mitts, fryer gloves or steamer gloves when handling hot pans from ovens, warmers or steam tables; The use of slip-resistant shoes and proper lifting techniques
Requirements
- Previous Cook experience required
Benefits
- Internal Employee Referral Bonus Available
- Retirement Plan
- Associate Shopping Program
- Health and Wellness Programs
- Discount Marketplace
- Identity Theft Protection
- Pet Insurance
- Voluntary Benefits, including Critical Illness Insurance, Accident Insurance, Hospital Indemnity Insurance, Legal Services, and Choice Auto and Home Program
