Kitchen Prep & Sushi Skills — Weekend Shifts

Yama Sushi Marketplace; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 32,000 - 41,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Tips available

Job summary

Yama Sushi Marketplace is seeking a Kitchen Prep Team Member to support end product production, ingredient prep, and hot food cooking in our LA kitchen. This role emphasizes speed, quality, and cleanliness across prep stations.

Base hourly pay ranges from $20 to $25, with tips estimated at $3 to $5 per hour based on past earnings, and weekend shifts are required. Join us to grow in a neighborhood sushi market with a long-standing LA presence.

Qualifications

• Previous kitchen prep experience preferred but not required.
• Food Handler Certification or able to obtain within 2 weeks of start date.
• Eagerness to grow within culinary or sushi-focused roles.

Responsibilities

• Assist with prepping ingredients (cutting vegetables, portions, marinating fish).
• Fry and bread chicken, spam, shrimp, curry bread, dumplings.
• Stock and organize stations with fresh ingredients, tools, and packaging.
• Wash and sanitize prep surfaces, tools, and storage containers.
• Follow all food safety and hygiene protocols (glove use, labeling, temp logs).
• Assist in wrapping, garnishing, assembling and cutting basic rolls or platters.
• Support dishwashing and general kitchen cleaning tasks.

Skills

Learn sushi techniques

Follow prep methods

Team oriented

Attention to detail

Knife safety basics

Education

Food Handler Certification

Job description

Yama Sushi Marketplace is seeking a Kitchen Prep Team Member to support end product production, ingredient prep, and hot food cooking in our LA kitchen. This role emphasizes speed, quality, and cleanliness across prep stations.

Base hourly pay ranges from $20 to $25, with tips estimated at $3 to $5 per hour based on past earnings, and weekend shifts are required. Join us to grow in a neighborhood sushi market with a long-standing LA presence.