Cook 5

The Crescent Hotels Group; Williamsburg (VA); On-site; USD 37,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is seeking a Cook 5 to join our culinary team. This non-exempt, probationary role offers overtime eligibility and opportunities to work across multiple stations, delivering continental or classical cuisine with attention to quality and efficiency.

You will plan daily work, manage stock rotation, and maintain food cost controls while demonstrating initiative and creativity in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Plan daily work based on general instructions from the supervisor.
• Demonstrate knowledge of product utilization, stock rotation, food cost, and waste control.
• Must demonstrate initiative and creativity.
• Superior knife handling abilities.
• Maintain standards listed below

Responsibilities

• The Cook 5 creates and prepares chef specials
• Efficiently works any station while maintaining productivity

Skills

Knife handling

Planning daily work

Product utilization

Stock rotation

Food cost control

Creativity

Job description

Description

Who We Are

Founded in 1926, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is a private, not-for-profit educational, historic, and cultural institution that owns and operates one of the largest and best-known museum complexes in the world. Our mission is “that the future may learn from the past” through preserving and restoring 18th-century Williamsburg, Virginia’s colonial capital. We engage, inform, and inspire people to learn about this historic capital, the events that occurred here, and the diverse peoples who helped shape a new nation.

Today, Colonial Williamsburg is the largest living history museum in the U.S. The Historic Area is the 301-acre restored colonial capital with 89 original buildings and 525 buildings reconstructed to how they appeared in the 18th century through extensive archaeological, architectural, and documentary research. The Historic Area is staffed by highly trained, historically dressed interpreters and expert tradespeople who bring the 18th century to life. The Foundation also owns and operates two world-class museums, the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, The Bob and Marion Wilson Teacher Institute, and a renowned research library, the John D Rockefeller Jr Library.

Additionally, Colonial Williamsburg is home to five world class accommodations at the Williamsburg Inn, Williamsburg Lodge Autograph Collection, the Griffin Hotel, the Williamsburg Woodlands Hotels and Suites and the unique Colonial Houses in the Historical Area. Visitors may also indulge in food and drink at our many on site restaurants and taverns that blend a historically inspired dining experience with today’s evolved tastes. Each year over 5 million people visit Williamsburg and another 20 million engage with us digitally.

About the Position

Upon being hired for this position, you will enter a Probationary status, working up to 40 hours per week.

Upon completion of the probationary period, you could become benefit eligible.

Essential Duties

• The Cook 5 creates and prepares chef specials
• Efficiently works any station while maintaining productivity

Requirements

• Ability to plan daily work based on general instructions from the supervisor.
• Demonstrate knowledge of product utilization, stock rotation, food cost, and waste control.
• Must demonstrate initiative and creativity.
• Superior knife handling abilities.
• Maintain standards listed below

Qualifications

• Four years of experience in a restaurant specializing in continental or classical cuisine, for a total of ten years experience.
• Must meet requirements for Cook 3 and Cook 4

Expectations

• Maintain an upbeat attitude and a positive, enthusiastic mindset.
• Greet guests, employees, managers, and supervisors with a warm smile and friendly demeanor.
• Always treat everyone with respect and work cooperatively with all colleagues and management.
• Report to work as scheduled and on time
• Adhere to established uniform and appearance policies.
• Perform assigned tasks accurately and on time.

This is a non-exempt position, eligible to receive overtime in accordance with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). This position may be subject to overtime during high peak times, etc. as directed and approved by the supervisor.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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