CD de cuisine - Standard

HMSHost; Greensboro (NC); On-site; USD 25,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

HMSHost is seeking a Cook responsible for preparing cooked foods across Fry, Flat Top Griddle, Pantry, and eggs. Must communicate issues to the manager and servers, delivering high-quality service.

Non-exempt position with essential kitchen duties, safety compliance, and team collaboration. Responsibilities include following recipes, estimating production needs, checking supplies, and maintaining clean, sanitary stations while adhering to HACCP standards.

Qualifications

• Requires food preparation skills and knowledge of HACCP standards.
• Minimum of 1 year cooking experience in a high-volume casual dining environment preferred.
• Knowledge of soups, sauté, broiler, fry, and pantry is helpful.

Responsibilities

• Follows recipes and product directions for preparing, seasoning, cooking, and serving food items.
• Tastes products, estimates quantities, checks production, and requisitions supplies.
• Cleans and sanitizes work stations and equipment.
• Maintains HACCP standards and food safety practices.
• Operates kitchen equipment and prepares ingredients (cutting, washing, slicing).
• Stocks, dates, rotates, and checks temperatures of products.

Skills

Food preparation

HACCP knowledge

Knife handling

High-volume cooking

Customer service

Job description

• The Cook is responsible for preparing cooked foods, and must be able to perform all station functions of Fry, Flat Top Griddle, Pantry, and cooking eggs; communicating ticket times and potential problems to the manager on duty and servers as necessary; providing the highest quality of service to customers and associates at all times; performs all other responsibilities as directed by the business or as assigned by management. This is a non-exempt position.

  Essential Functions:

• Follows recipes and/or product directions for preparing, seasoning, cooking, tasting, carving and serving food items which may include soups, meats, vegetables, desserts and other food and beverage products
• Tastes products, follow menus, estimate food requirements, check production and keep records in order to accurately plan production requirements and requisition supplies and equipment as needed
• Cleans and sanitizes work stations and equipment
• Practices excellent food safety and sanitation practices and complies with HACCP standards
• Operates a variety of kitchen equipment; Measures and mixes ingredients, washes, peels, cuts and shreds fruits and vegetables
• Stocks, dates, rotates, and checks temperature of product

• Minimum Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, and Work Environment:

• Requires food preparation skills and knowledge of HACCP standards
• Requires a minimum of 1 year of closely related cooking experience, work experience in high volume and casual dining restaurant environment preferred
• Requires food knowledge pertaining to Soups, Sauté, Broiler, Fry, and Pantry
• Requires the ability to speak, read and comprehend instructions, short correspondence and policy documents, as well as converse comfortably with customers
• Requires the ability to lift and/or move up to 40 pounds
• Requires the ability to bend, twist, and stand to perform normal job functions
• Frequently immerses hands in water and water diluted with chemical solutions
• Frequently works with sharp knives, utensils, and hot plates
• Frequently works in hot environment

Avolta, including Dufry, HMSHost Corporation, Hudson, and affiliates (“the Company”), is an equal opportunity employer. It is the Company’s policy to ensure equal employment opportunity in all aspects of employment and to comply with anti-discrimination laws andregulations. The Company prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal opportunities to applicants and team members withoutregard to actual or perceived race, color, creed, age, religion, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions and lactation), gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, national origin, disability, military service and veteran status, ancestry, citizenship status, marital status, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances (referred to as “protected characteristics”).

Source: HMSHost