Cook 2 - Tony Gwynn's

Jamul Indian Village Development Corpora; Jamul (CA); On-site; USD 21,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Jamul Indian Village Development Corpora is seeking a kitchen team member to join the food service operation. The role involves following recipes, preparing and plating dishes, and ensuring quality and cleanliness in a fast-paced environment.

You will support culinary leadership, manage inventories, and assist in various food service tasks across venues as needed. Requirements include at least 1 year of related experience, knowledge of food prep methods, and the ability to obtain required

Qualifications

• Minimum of one year of related experience and/or training
• Knowledge of food preparation methods and measures for assigned function
• Ability to earn and maintain a current Food Handlers Card
• Ability to acquire and maintain appropriate gaming license

Responsibilities

• Provide friendly, fast, and helpful customer service to guests and team members
• Follow recipes to prepare and/or cook food to meet standards
• Measure and convert recipes without affecting quality
• Perform kitchen duties including broiler, sauté, prep, and production as needed
• Take direction to meet culinary standards and operational guidelines
• Prepare food items efficiently following recipes and plating procedures
• Understand kitchen equipment and regulate temperatures for proper cooking times
• Understand soups, sauces, starches, thickeners, emulsifiers
• Adhere to policies and work with leadership for coordinated workflow
• Familiar with prep list and take inventories
• Exhibit intermediate knife skills and sharpening
• Assist in other food and beverage venues as needed
• Attend training programs or meetings as directed
• Maintain, clean, and sanitize equipment and work areas
• Work safely and meet uniform/grooming requirements
• Perform other duties as assigned

Job description

The following and other duties may be assigned as necessary:

• Provide friendly, fast, and helpful customer service to all guests and team members.
• Follow recipes to prepare and/or cook food to meet departmental standards or as directed.
• Measure and convert recipes without affecting quality.
• Perform assigned functions within the kitchen such as broiler, sauté, prep, and production when needed.
• Accepts direction during day-to-day operations to ensure culinary standards and operational guidelines including kitchen areas, food preparation activities and facilities are met.
• Efficient preparation of all food related items based on established recipes and plating procedures for both batch and individual plated with attention to maintaining appropriate volume, quality, cleanliness, and attractiveness.
• Knowledge/understanding of kitchen equipment to include safe operations and regulation of temperatures for proficient cooking times and temperatures.
• Understands fundamentals of soups, sauces, starches, thickeners, and emulsifiers.
• Must adhere to regulatory, department and company policies.
• Partners with culinary leadership to work as a team to ensure coordinated workflow during shift to meet business demands and ensure customer satisfaction.
• Must be familiar with and have exposure to prep list.
• Take inventories.
• Exhibit intermediate knife skills, classic cuts and sharpening.
• Assist in operation of other food and beverage venues as needed.
• Attend all departmental and company training programs or meetings as directed.
• Properly maintains, cleans, and sanitizes equipment and work areas to meet departmental standards or as directed.
• Perform all job duties in a safe and responsible manner.
• Meet department uniform, appearance, and grooming requirements. This includes purchasing and wearing slip resistant safety shoes when performing all job duties.
• Perform other job related and compatible duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Must be at least 18 years of age.

• A minimum of one year of related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Knowledge of applicable food preparation methods and measures for assigned function
• Ability to earn and maintain a current Food Handlers Card
• Must be able to acquire and maintain appropriate gaming license

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Ability to read and interpret documents In English, such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to read and communicate verbally in English. Written communication skills in English may also be required.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide into all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance. Must be able to efficiently and accurately count money and gaming chips and make a change. Possess the ability to operate an adding machine and have basic computer skills.

REASONING ABILITY

Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

Team members must be able to qualify for licenses and permits required by federal, state, and local regulations.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here represent those that must be met by a team member to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the team member is regularly required to stand and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls. The team member frequently is required to reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and peripheral vision.

The team member must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 75 pounds, and must have the ability to push, pull, reach, bend, twist, stoop, stack, crouch, kneel and balance when performing job duties in varying work areas such as confined spaces.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here represent what a team member encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually very loud. Team member will be exposed to an environment containing unrestricted secondhand tobacco smoke.

Equal Opportunity Employer

This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws.For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.