Dinner Kitchen Specialist - Cooks & Chefs, Flexible Hours

Lone Star New Zealand

Queenstown

On-site

NZD 42,000 - 63,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Job summary

Lone Star Queenstown is seeking cooks and chefs at any level for an immediate start. This kitchen operates dinner service with no early mornings, typically starting between 2pm and 5pm, and requires flexible weekend and public holiday availability.

You will work across prep, hots, colds, and grill stations, ensuring food quality and presentation while complying with health and safety standards. Prior commercial kitchen experience is welcomed and opportunities to learn and develop are available.

Qualifications

Responsibilities

To ensure that all food prepared in the kitchen meets quality standards and specifications
To comply with all health & safety, and hygiene standards
To ensure that the highest quality of preparation and presentation is met at all stages of preparation and presentation
Workstations will include prep, hots, colds, and grill
To assist the managers in the day-to-day running of the kitchen, ensuring that all food quality, hygiene, safety, and customer service standards are adhered to
To offer ideas for improving cooking and preparation techniques
To be punctual and to meet scheduled time frames for prepping and cleaning duties
To train, coach, and develop new staff
To place orders, and ensure that supplier invoices and deliveries are constantly matched
To actively try and achieve reasonable costs of goods and wage costs
To work well with the BOH team and kitchen management, and assist in achieving food and wage cost targets