Cook

Zoot Enterprises; Bozeman (MT); On-site; USD 35,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

Zoot Enterprises is seeking a Cook to provide high-quality, healthy on-campus lunch service for employees, visitors, and clients. You will work with Sous Chefs to prepare entrees, soups, and salads, manage kitchen prep, and help with inventory in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities include maintaining health code standards, assisting with catering for events, and supporting dishwashing and cleanup. This on-site role requires initiative and teamwork in a commercial kitchen setting.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma
• 3-5 years of experience in a restaurant or commercial kitchen preparing meal service for large groups (50+ per day)
• Demonstrated knowledge of food safety and preparation guidelines
• Strong knife skills
• Ability to take direction from supervisors and managers
• Independent thinking to recognize daily needs
• Initiative

Responsibilities

• Taking guidance from Sous Chefs for daily instruction, from cooking to operating all applicable kitchen equipment while positively and professionally interacting with customers.
• Prepare hot entrees, soups, and salads using ingredients on hand, without the benefit of a specific recipe.
• Create meals from leftover/extra ingredients.
• Maintain standards for both state health code regulations and child care facility regulations in regards to food handling, safety, food preparation, and cleaning.
• Equipment Maintenance: Regularly checking and maintaining the dishwasher machine and other cleaning equipment. Reporting any malfunctions or issues to the kitchen manager.
• Inventory Management: Monitoring cleaning supplies and chemicals, notifying the supervisor when inventory is low, and ensuring proper storage and labeling of chemicals.
• Exhibit an ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, commercial environment.

Skills

Knife skills

Follow directions

Independent thinking

Initiative

Large-group service

Education

High School Diploma

3-5 years restaurant/kitchen experience

Tools

Kitchen equipment knowledge

Job description

The Cook position focuses on providing high quality, healthy on-campus lunch service to employees, visiting guests, and clients. This position is responsible for preparing and cooking menu items alongside the Sous Chefs. In addition, the person in this position will assist general cleaning and maintenance, kitchen prep and inventory management of kitchen items.
For over 30 years, Zoot Enterprises has been a global provider of advanced origination, acquisition, and decision management solutions. Our customer-centric tools and services enable Zoot's clients to add value and differentiation, while providing nimble, scalable solutions for specific business objectives. A leader in the fintech industry, Zoot provides a cloud based secure processing environment that delivers millisecond real-time decisions, accessing hundreds of cutting edge data sources to help reduce risk and increase conversions.

Essential Job Functions :

• Taking guidance from Sous Chefs for daily instruction, from cooking to operating all applicable kitchen equipment while positively and professionally interacting with customers.
• Prepare hot entrees, soups, and salads using ingredients on hand, without the benefit of a specific recipe.
• Create meals from leftover/extra ingredients.
• Maintain standards for both state health code regulations and child care facility regulations in regards to food handling, safety, food preparation, and cleaning.
• Equipment Maintenance: Regularly checking and maintaining the dishwasher machine and other cleaning equipment. Reporting any malfunctions or issues to the kitchen manager.
• Inventory Management: Monitoring cleaning supplies and chemicals, notifying the supervisor when inventory is low, and ensuring proper storage and labeling of chemicals.
• While taking direction from Sous Chefs, this role will be expected to make decisions pertaining to assigned meals without directive.
• Exhibit an ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, commercial environment.
• Clean and inspect galley equipment, kitchen appliances, and work areas to ensure cleanliness and functional operation per state health code guidelines
• Cook nutritional meals, and apportion and serve food to customers.
• Work with nutritionist and Healthy Is Wellness to consider health challenges that cater to the current menu.
• Assist with catering for Zoot and ZALA events.
• Clean, cut, and cook meat, fish, and poultry.
• Per health-code regulations wash and sanitize pots, pans, dishes, utensils, and other cooking equipment.
• Compile and maintain records of food use and expenditures.
• Willing to learn to bake.
• Per health-code regulations check the quality of raw and cooked food products to ensure that standards are met.
• Per health-code regulations ensure sanitation practices, standards, and regulations are followed.
• Check the quantity and quality of received products.
• Order or requisition food and other supplies needed to ensure efficient operation.
• Inspect supplies, equipment, and work areas to ensure conformance to established health code standards.
• Estimate amounts and costs of required supplies, such as food and ingredients.
• Take into account customer feedback when planning and developing recipes and menus, while also taking into account such factors as seasonal availability of ingredients and the likely number of customers.
• Compliance with and knowledge of Zoot’s Policies and Procedures, Code of Business Conduct, and Employee Agreement.
• Achieve a service-focused culture with emphasis on delivering on-time, high-quality products and services to internal and external customers.
• Other duties as assigned – it is understood that this list of major duties and responsibilities is not an inclusive list and that other duties and responsibilities, which may include helping others in the same or different departments, may be assigned by supervision.

Education, Training, and Experience Requirements:

• High School Diploma
• 3-5 years of experience in a restaurant or commercial kitchen preparing meal service for large groups (50+ per day)
• Demonstrated knowledge of food safety and preparation guidelines
• Strong knife skills
• Ability to take direction from supervisors and managers
• Independent thinking to recognize daily needs
• Initiative

Or, an equal combination of education and experience.

Physical Requirements:

This position specifically requires long periods of activity including standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, and exposure to elements such as heat and cold in a kitchen setting. The position may be required to lift up to 50lbs. All positions at Zoot require the ability to move about inside an office environment which includes the operation of computers and other office productivity machinery and frequently communicates with other employees, clients, vendors, and visitors.

Working Conditions | Work Hours | Location:

This position will take place on-site at Zoot’s headquarters and work between 40-45 hours per week. This position will take place primarily in a commercial kitchen setting. This position requires maintenance of a clean working environment. The Cook position requires self-initiative, efficient work, and regular management of changing priorities.

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job which may include helping others in the same or different departments, may be assigned by supervision. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.