Cook

Workstream; East Farmingdale (NY); On-site; USD 21,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Burger Village in Farmingdale, NY is seeking a Cook to prepare ingredients, follow recipes, and maintain quality and cleanliness in a fast-paced setting.

The role involves collaborating with other kitchen staff, presenting dishes with garnish, and ensuring food safety standards are met throughout service. Ideal candidates can handle heat, stand for long periods, and maintain meticulous kitchen organization.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of safety procedures and safe temperatures for ingredients.
• Ability to work as part of a team and collaborate on complex dishes.
• Interpersonal skills to interact with waitstaff, management and customers.
• Calm demeanor to handle high-stress, fast-paced environments.
• Accountability for dishes meeting expectations of management and customers.
• Ability to follow direct orders and recipes accurately.
• Manual dexterity for knife techniques and food prep.
• Ability to stand for long hours and work around heat.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cooks, chefs, restaurant managers and food service staff to ensure quality service.
• Follow recipes with precise measuring, weighing and mixing of ingredients.
• Bake, grill, steam, and boil various foods to spec.
• Present, garnish and arrange final dishes for serving.
• Maintain a clean and safe work area and proper utensil handling.
• Handle and store ingredients to preserve freshness and safety.
• Ensure food safety and sanitation standards are met.

Skills

Teamwork

Food safety

Communication

Calm under pressure

Attention to detail

Following recipes

Dexterity

Endurance

Job description

A Cook, or Line Cook, is responsible for preparing ingredients at an establishment that serves food, processing customer orders, producing meals and cleaning their workspace throughout the day to follow health and safety guidelines. Cooks follow recipes consistently, make adjustments based on customer requests, communicate with wait staff and prepare garnishes to make an attractive presentation for each meal.

Skills/Qualifications:

• Knowledge of safety procedures, including safe temperatures at which ingredients must be kept and to which food must be prepared to avoid foodborne illness
• Ability to work as part of a team, collaborating on complex dishes
• Interpersonal skills to interact with a variety of other people, such as waitstaff, dishwashers, management and sometimes customers
• Calm demeanor to work in a high-stress, fast-paced environment
• Accountability for the dishes they prepare measuring up to the expectations of management and customers alike
• Comprehension and organization to follow direct orders and recipes and to correctly prepare dishes to the standards of the restaurant
• Manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination to handle tools, such as knife techniques for chopping, slicing, cutting and dicing
• Ability to stand in one place for hours at a time, handle extreme heat and work shifts

Requirements and Responsibilities:

Food Servers collaborate with Cooks, Chefs, Restaurant Managers, and other food service staff to provide excellent customer service and maintain a positive reputation for the organization. Food Server responsibilities include:

• Ensure ingredients and final products are fresh
• Follow recipes, including measuring, weighing and mixing ingredients
• Bake, grill, steam and boil meats, vegetables, fish, poultry and other foods
• Present, garnish and arrange final dishes
• Occasionally serve food
• Maintain a clean and safe work area, including handling utensils, equipment and dishes
• Handle and store ingredients and food
• Maintain food safety and sanitation standards

With over 20 years of experience in food industry and restaurant management, Burger Village is a dream concept and creation of four Long Islander brothers - Sam, Nick, Vick & Ravi. They have also owned QSRs and full service restaurant in the past; and due to their expansive individual experiences each of them has their unique contribution to Burger Village such as operations, cooking skills, recipes, management, marketing and service which overall provides customers with a qualitative dining experience.
By keeping in mind the need to eat healthy with busy lifestyles of today gave us an idea which finally came up as Burger Village where everyone can eat healthy organic meals alongside a great customer service. Burger Village opened its first location in 2013 in Great Neck, NY and since then we have opened up locations in Park Slope and Downtown Brooklyn, Hicksville, Farmingdale and Astoria. We expanded all the way to San Luis Obispo, California and Edmonton Canada. Burger Village believes in serving the best, so our consumers can recognize what our values are.