Culinary Experience Team Member

Impact Kitchen; Toronto; On-site; CAD 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A culinary establishment in Toronto seeks a Culinary Experience Team Member. Responsibilities include food preparation, ensuring food safety, and maintaining kitchen cleanliness. Ideal candidates have at least one year of kitchen experience and strong time management skills. This role offers a competitive rate of $18.00/hour and encourages applications from diverse backgrounds.

Benefits

Tip-pooling program

Substantial discount on products

Flexible scheduling

Qualifications

• Minimum of 1 year of kitchen experience.
• Strong understanding of food safety and public health practices.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Preparation and execution of menu items and food standards.
• Operation and maintenance of dishwashing unit.
• Cleaning and sanitation of kitchen equipment.

Skills

Kitchen experience

Food safety understanding

Time management skills

Ability to lift up to 50 LBS

Communicative skills

Job description

CULINARY EXPERIENCE TEAM MEMBER

Culinary Experience Team Member (CETM) at Impact Kitchen you set the culinary standard high and are passionate to ensure guests enjoy their experience through incredible food. You create delectable and consistent dishes for dine-in and take-out guests, support back of house operations and partner with your Guest Experience counterparts on the team.

Culinary Team Members are highly flexible individuals responsible for dishwashing, preparing and working both Hot and Cold line kitchen stations supporting Impact Kitchen’s breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner menu. As proper food handling, food safety, and consistent recipe preparation are all vital to this position, a primary role of the CETM position is to monitor sanitation, food quality, and food freshness. This position is highly physical; therefore, individuals must possess a strong level of physical stamina. Ideal candidates are efficient, flexible, possess superior time management skills, are team players, and thrive in a fast-paced environment.

COMPENSATION

Culinary Experience Team Members earn $18.00/hour, participate in a tip-pooling program, receive a substantial discount on Impact Kitchen products and have flexible scheduling to accommodate a healthy balanced lifestyle.

TEAM & DEPARTMENT

Culinary Experience Team Members make an impact everyday through our back-of-house operations and make up a large portion of our total team population. In this role you will have the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues from multiple levels of the organization while being the main point of food production for our guests. The Culinary Experience Team Member reports to Culinary Experience Management including the Assistant Kitchen Manager, Kitchen Manager and General Manager of each Restaurant.

Although the first entry point for our culinary inclined restaurant teams, the Culinary Experience Team Member is the perfect knowledge incubator. Those that excel in their capacity at a CETM have the opportunity to succeed to a Culinary Experience Lead role where they train and develop top talent for the organization, and then on to management.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Preparation, production and execution of menu items and food quality standards according to detailed recipes and instructions
• Operation and maintenance of dishwashing unit and dish-cleaning areas
• Ability to execute other custodial duties as needed
• Receiving and storage of deliveries as related to the commissary kitchen and 3rd party suppliers
• Effective storage, management, and safe rotation (FIFO) of all products
• Cleaning, sanitation and maintenance of kitchen equipment and food production spaces
• Strict adherence to company, municipal and provincial guidelines as they are related to food safety and safe workplace environments

SKILLS

• Minimum of 1 year of kitchen experience with a general understanding of cooking and cleaning fundamentals and practices
• Strong understanding of food safety and public health practices
• Ability to execute and thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Strong time management and organizational skills with the ability to multitask when required
• Ability to communicate effectively, and respectfully and work well with others in a team-based setting
• Be able to work in a standing position for extended periods
• Availability to work days, evenings, and weekends as business demands
• Ability to lift up to 50 LBS
• Work Permit required
• Preferred but not required: Food Handlers Certification

This job posting is for an existing vacancy within Impact Kitchen. We are looking to fill this position with a qualified candidate as soon as possible.

INCLUSIVITY AT IMPACT

Impact Kitchen feeds a diverse community and is made stronger by a diverse team. We welcome and encourage applications from our entire community equally. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the decision to hire is based solely on business needs, experience and future potential. Hiring is not determined or influenced by any classification of an individual as protected by the laws that govern the region for which the prospective individual would work within. This is true for all practices and policies within the employee journey/lifecycle.

Impact Kitchen supports alternative ways to interview and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Should you require a reasonable accommodation, please indicate in your application. Both Impact Kitchen management and the applicant share responsibility to communicate and reasonably accommodate.