Hot Line Cook

Hungry Llama; New York, Town of Hempstead (NY, NY); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking dedicated team members to join their vibrant dining environment. This role focuses on preparing and serving food and beverages, ensuring guest satisfaction through excellent service. Candidates will be responsible for maintaining cleanliness and organization in the kitchen, following recipes, and adhering to health standards. The ideal candidates should have a passion for food service, strong communication skills, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment. Join this dynamic team and contribute to creating memorable dining experiences for guests!

Benefits

Employee Discount

Flexible Schedule

Qualifications

• 1 year experience in food service is essential.
• Ability to communicate effectively with guests and team members.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and serve food and beverages while maintaining cleanliness.
• Greet guests and ensure their satisfaction with the service.

Skills

Customer Service

Communication

Basic Math Skills

Food Safety Knowledge

Ability to Work in Confined Spaces

Education

High School Diploma

Tools

Point of Sale (POS) System

Job description

Full Job Description

Summary/Objective: To prepare, serve, sell and maintain food/beverage items. This includes taking orders, receiving vendor deliveries, and cleaning of food items. These tasks are to be performed in a timely and professional manner to achieve the highest level of guest satisfaction.

Essential Functions:

1. Understand that our guest is our #1 priority.
2. Greet guests in a courteous and friendly manner (where applicable).
3. Follow all recipes and practice portion control to prepare, garnish, and present ordered items.
4. Maintain proper and adequate set-up of the kitchen/station on a daily basis, including requisitioning and stocking of all required food, paper products, and condiments.
5. Handle, store, and rotate all products properly.
6. Responsible for set-up, regular maintenance, cleaning, and break-down of any machinery and equipment.
7. Maintain stock, cutting, and storage of all perishables daily to ensure product quality.
8. Complete opening, on-going, and closing checklists as required.
9. Return all items used during your shift to the proper place, clean and organize all work and storage areas, including all coolers and refrigerators; empty and re-line all trash containers.
10. Assume 100% responsibility for the quality of products served.
11. Perform general and specific cleaning tasks using standard cleaning products as assigned by supervisor to adhere to health standards.
12. Other duties as assigned.

Required Education & Experience:

1. One year experience working in a food service environment is essential.
2. High school diploma preferred.
3. Verbal and written communication is essential. Able to read, speak, and understand the English language in order to communicate with guests and take orders.
4. Experience in dealing with problems involving customer service.
5. Basic mathematical skills necessary to operate a cash register, make change, total guest checks, count total bank, prepare cash drops, total all other charges.
6. Food Handlers permit as required by law.
7. Brand Certification as required by law.
8. Ability to remember, recite, and promote the variety of menu items.
9. Ability to operate a keyboard & point of sale procedures to pre-check an order & close out a check.
10. Ability to stand and work in confined spaces for long periods of time.

Position Type / Expected Hours of Work: Must have availability to work weekdays and weekends. Hours of employment are contingent on business needs, work required and/or as job duties demand.

Work Environment: This role routinely will have to maintain a safe and clean work environment, where chemicals are utilized to clean kitchen appliances such as stoves, burners, ovens, sinks, refrigerators, and knives. The team member will be exposed to extreme temperatures while completing essential job tasks and duties.

Physical Demands: Hungry Llama LLC complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and all applicable state or local law. Consistent with those requirements, SSP America, Inc. will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with a disability if such accommodation would allow the individual to perform the essential functions of the job, unless doing so would create an undue hardship. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the team member is regularly required to communicate with guests and fellow team members and be able to accurately exchange information in these situations; operate a computer and other office equipment, such as POS system, copy machine and computer printer; must be able to detect business patterns that require the increase or decrease in staff at a given moment in time; must be able to distinguish flavors when testing recipes to be prepared for guests; may be required to lift up to 25lbs about 50% of the time when receiving inventory or distributing product to company outlets; constantly exposed to both hot and cold temperature conditions. The team member is required and must have the ability to sit, stand, walk, kneel, crouch, stoop, reach, twist, and lift for extended periods of time.

Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Hungry Llama LLC is an equal opportunity employer and does not unlawfully discriminate against team members and applicants for employment on the basis of race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, sexual orientation, protected U.S. military or veteran status, political affiliation, genetic information, union activity or any other bases protected by law. All Hungry Llama LLC employees, other workers and representatives are prohibited from engaging in unlawful discrimination.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time.

Pay: From $17.00 per hour.

Expected hours: 20 – 30 per week.

Benefits:

• Employee discount.
• Flexible schedule.

Experience level: 2 years.

Restaurant type: Casual dining restaurant.

Shift: 8 hour shift. Day shift. Evening shift. Morning shift.

Weekly day range: Monday to Friday. Weekends as needed.

Experience: Restaurant experience: 2 years (Required).

Shift availability: Day Shift (Preferred). Night Shift (Preferred).

Ability to Commute: New York, NY 10014 (Required).

Ability to Relocate: New York, NY 10014: Relocate before starting work (Required).

Work Location: In person.