Fast Food Kitchen Crew Member - Day Shift

Dairy Queen Charlottesville; Charlottesville (VA); On-site; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Dairy Queen Charlottesville is seeking a Kitchen Crew Member for morning shifts. This role involves ensuring high-quality food preparation, maintaining a clean workspace, and providing excellent customer service in a fast-paced environment. Ideal candidates will have prior experience in fast food and a strong team-oriented attitude.

Benefits

Weekly Pay via Direct Deposit

Qualifications

• Required fast food or quick serve experience.
• Ability to follow health and safety standards.
• Good personal hygiene and positive attitude.

Responsibilities

• Prepare food products quickly and accurately.
• Maintain cleanliness of work area and equipment.
• Communicate effectively with team members and customers.

Skills

Communication

Customer Service

Teamwork

Time Management

Job description

Morning Shift - 10:00 am to 4:30 pm (6 days/ week)

Kitchen Crew Member - Fast Food Restaurant

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• Weekly Pay via Direct Deposit
• Prior Fast Food/ Quick Serve Restaurant experience is required.
  
  

We are looking to add a team member to our current fun-loving, brilliant working team to provide the best DQ fan experience.

Job Duties:

Execute all kitchen operations, ensuring all prepared foods meet restaurant safety and health standards. Cooks assemble and wraps food items, stocks all needed products, and preparation materials cleanly and safely. Essential job functions include, but are not limited to:

• Communicate, quickly, and politely with co-workers to ensure the correct order is served to the customers.
• Quickly and accurately prepares food products following restaurant, health, and safety standards and procedures.
• Be pleasant and alert to customer needs.
• Properly and safely operates and maintains restaurant equipment including grill, fryer, freezer, cooking equipment, and chill equipment while following all health and safety standards.
• Work as a “team” member to assure constant and consistent quality, service, cleanliness, and value to each customer.
• Clean work area, organize and stock needed items. Move various food, treat paper, and cleaning items from other sections of the building (or outside the building) to the immediate work area.
• Stocks and executes proper rotation of products.
• Completes assigned prep work for stocking and set up of grill and chill area.
• Breaks down and cleans grill and chill area thoroughly every day as assigned by a manager or shift leader.
• Wash counters, tables, restrooms, and trash receptacles, gather trash and remove from dining/service areas to proper receptacle, sweep, mop, stock, and other cleaning tasks. Occasional need to be out of the building (i.e., parking lot, freezer, trash container areas, etc.) for parking lot pick-up, trash removal, and other maintenance and cleaning activities.
• Informs immediate supervisor promptly of all problems or unusual matters of significance.
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as requested by management staff or shift leaders.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Operates grill and chill area by established standards, policies, and procedures.
• Responsible for quick, accurate, and safe food production process.
• Assists in the success of the restaurant by ensuring guest satisfaction through adhering to standards for quality, value, service, and cleanliness.
• Maintains a positive working relationship with all restaurant employees and customers to foster and promote a cooperative and pleasant working climate.
• Communicates all significant issues, both positive and negative, with management staff.
• Operates chill area by established PRIDE standards, policies, and procedures.
• Responsible for the quick, accurate, and safe treatment production process.
• Assists in the success of the restaurant by ensuring guest satisfaction through adhering to company standards for quality, value, service, and cleanliness.
• Maintains a positive working relationship with all restaurant employees to foster and promote a cooperative and pleasant working climate.
• Communicates all significant issues, both positive and negative, with management staff.

Requirements:

• Must be able to move cases of food/paper products, buckets of sanitizing liquid or cleaner, and containers of up to 50 pounds up to 10 times per six-hour shift.
• Must be able to perform under pressure in a high-volume restaurant including moving and responding quickly for long periods.
• Must be able to travel quickly in customer service area as much as three times for each customer up to as many as 40 customers per hour of shift.
• Must be able to work in and out of different temperature ranges.
• Must be able to stand for long periods.
• Must be able to read order monitors, and recall and communicate products and contents.
• Must practice established food handling procedures and meet any local health regulations.
• Must exhibit and use good manners, proper personal hygiene, positive attitude, and promptness.