Hospital Cafeteria Cook - Fresh, Patient-Focused Meals

College Medical Center; Glendora (CA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

College Medical Center, located in Glendora, California, is hiring a full-time cook for its hospital cafeteria. The role involves preparing meals, setting up service lines, and serving hospital staff, with weekend and holiday shifts required.

You will bake, roast, grill, boil and steam a variety of foods while maintaining safe handling and sanitary procedures. Responsibilities include reviewing menus and production sheets, ensuring accurate portions, and preparing special and therapeutic diets.

Qualifications

• Varied cooking duties in hospital cafeteria.
• Attention to safety, sanitation, and patient dietary needs.

Responsibilities

• Setting up service lines, pre-plating foods, preparing meals, cooking, grilling, and serving hospital staff.
• Review menus, production sheets, recipes and tallied items to verify daily needs.
• Bake, roast, grill, boil and steam meats, fish, vegetables and other foods as required.
• Clean, peel, cut, slice, dice, weigh and measure ingredients as required.
• Plate and garnish food for attractive presentation.
• Follow food safety procedures for receiving, storing and cooking foods.
• Prepare special and therapeutic diets according to recipes and procedures.
• Read meal tallies and patient meal tickets accurately to account for textures and allergies.

Job description

College Medical Center, located in Glendora, California, is hiring a full-time cook for its hospital cafeteria. The role involves preparing meals, setting up service lines, and serving hospital staff, with weekend and holiday shifts required.

You will bake, roast, grill, boil and steam a variety of foods while maintaining safe handling and sanitary procedures. Responsibilities include reviewing menus and production sheets, ensuring accurate portions, and preparing special and therapeutic diets.