Day Shift Cook

Sonic Drive-In; Harrisonville (MO); On-site; USD 17,000 - 21,000; Full time

Job summary

SONIC Drive-In is seeking a Restaurant Cook to prepare and package menu items while maintaining high standards of safety and sanitation. You will collaborate with teammates to stay motivated and ready to handle busy periods, and you’ll focus on delivering a consistently great guest experience.

Ideal candidates bring a positive attitude, adaptability, and a willingness to learn. Flexible hours, including nights, weekends, and holidays, are required to meet business needs.

Qualifications

• Contagiously positive attitude.
• Ability to remain calm, especially in tough situations.
• Resilient spirit - bounce back from setbacks.
• Eagerness to learn and grow.
• Ability to multi-task across tasks smoothly.
• Team mentality and willingness to help where needed.
• Effective communication skills; basic math and reading skills.
• Willingness to work flexible hours; night, weekend, and holiday shifts.

Responsibilities

• Cook and package delicious menu items.
• Strive to beat your best record, every time.
• Be proactive and ready for busier moments within minutes.
• Continuously communicate with the team to help motivate.
• Maintain SONIC safety and sanitation standards.

Skills

Positive attitude

Calm under pressure

Multi-tasking

Team player

Effective communication

Basic math

Reading skills

Flexible hours

Availability for nights/weekends/holid

Job description

As a SONIC Drive-In Cook, your primary responsibility is to provide every guest with a SuperSONIC experience by:

• Cooking, creating, and packaging delicious menu items
• Trying to beat your best record, every time
• Being proactive (If you're not busy now, you may be in 5 minutes!)
• Continuously communicating with team to help motivate
• Maintaining SONIC safety and sanitation standards

What You'll Need:

• Contagiously positive attitude
• Ability to remain calm, especially in tough situations
• Resilient spirit - knowing everyone makes mistakes and can bounce back from a set-back
• Eagerness to learn and grow
• Ability to multi-task, switching from one task to another with ease
• Team mentality and willingness to help where needed
• Effective communication skills; basic math and reading skills
• Willingness to work flexible hours; night, weekend, and holiday shifts

SONIC Drive-In Restaurant Cook Requirements:

• Ability to work irregular hours, nights, weekends and holidays
• Ability to be flexible in all situations based on business need
• Effective communication skills; basic math and reading skills
• Ability to follow directions
• Willingness to abide by the appearance, uniform and hygiene standards at SONIC Drive-In restaurants
• General knowledge and understanding of the restaurant industry or retail operations preferred, but not requiredAdditional SONIC Drive-In Restaurant Cook Qualifications...
• Friendly and smiling faces that enjoy providing quality products for our guests!
• A willingness to cross-train on all the stations - it never gets boring here!
• Motivated individuals who are team players and committed to keeping our drive-in clean and safe.

Sure, classic cars and vintage threads may be things of the past, but the SONIC Drive-In restaurant experience will always be groovy, right on, awesome, wicked, fab, the bees knees, cruisin' . . . you get the picture! It's downright sensational!!

SONIC and its independent franchise owners are Equal Opportunity Employers.