Line Cook - The Embers Hotel

Hay Creek Hotels; Blowing Rock (NC); On-site; USD 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Insurance benefits

Competitive salary

Paid time off

Lodging discounts

Dining discounts

Employee meals

Job summary

The Embers Hotel in Blowing Rock, NC is actively seeking a Line Cook to join our culinary team. You will work with the Sous Chef and Executive Chef to ensure ingredients are in stock, maintain pars, and contribute to daily prep and plate presentation.

We offer $19-$25/hour based on experience, a fast-paced high-volume kitchen, flexible shifts including mornings, nights, weekends, and holidays, and a benefits package through Hay Creek Hotels.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent.
• 2+ years of recent Culinary experience in a high volume, full service restaurant.
• Inspired to work with food and passionate about our hospitality industry.
• Excellent Knife skills.
• Open to learn new skills.
• Must continuously demonstrate a positive, upbeat and customer-focused attitude.
• Flexibility to work nights or mornings, weekends, holidays, and busy seasonal days.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Sous Chef and Executive Chef to ensure that all items needed are in stock. Maintain daily pars and place inventory orders as needed.
• Practice and enforce proper food storage safety, allergy awareness, compliance with health department code, and all other safety and security policies and procedures.
• Oversee all work stations, often assisting in completing daily prep and working on each station.
• Enforce quality control of food at all times. Coordinate with the Sous Chef and Executive Chef on proper food preparation, execution, and plate presentation.
• Maintain cleanliness of workstation, kitchen area, and walk in cooler/freezer.
• Regularly make table visits to ensure guest satisfaction.
• Assist in training other culinary team members as needed.
• Participate in the execution of special events, private parties, and banquets.
• Flexibility to work nights or mornings, weekends, holidays, and busy seasonal days.

Skills

Knife skills

Positive attitude

Open to learn

Education

High School diploma or equivalent

Job description

Line Cook The Restaurant at Embers Hotel, is actively searching for a creative, fast-paced, and professional Line Cook to join our Culinary Team. Our restaurant offers breakfast, lunch and dinner 7 days a week in season for hotel guests and locals.

Job Description

Line Cook The Restaurant at Embers Hotel, is actively searching for a creative, fast-paced, and professional Line Cook to join our Culinary Team. Our restaurant offers breakfast, lunch and dinner 7 days a week in season for hotel guests and locals.

Tucked in the quaint mountain town of Blowing Rock, North Carolina, The Embers Hotel offers 36 guest rooms and suites with full-service restaurant and al fresco dining patio. Managed by Hay Creek Hotels, this boutique location embodies a fireside retreat with 4-star service in an approachable, natural setting.

Wage

$19 - $25 per hour based on experience.

Job Summary

• Work closely with the Sous Chef and Executive Chef to ensure that all items needed are in stock. Maintain daily pars and place inventory orders as needed.
• Practice and enforce proper food storage safety, allergy awareness, compliance with health department code, and all other safety and security policies and procedures.
• Oversee all work stations, often assisting in completing daily prep and working on each station.
• Enforce quality control of food at all times. Coordinate with the Sous Chef and Executive Chef on proper food preparation, execution, and plate presentation.
• Maintain cleanliness of workstation, kitchen area, and walk in cooler/freezer.
• Regularly make table visits to ensure guest satisfaction.
• Assist in training other culinary team members as needed.
• Participate in the execution of special events, private parties, and banquets.
• Flexibility to work nights or mornings, weekends, holidays, and busy seasonal days.

Required Experience

• High School diploma or equivalent.
• 2+ years of recent Culinary experience in a high volume, full service restaurant.
• Inspired to work with food and passionate about our hospitality industry.
• Excellent Knife skills.
• Open to learn new skills.
• Must continuously demonstrate a positive, upbeat and customer-focused attitude.
• Flexibility to work nights or mornings, weekends, holidays, and busy seasonal days.

Benefits

Hay Creek offers an extensive benefit and incentive package, including;

• Insurance Benefit package, to include Company-funded Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Accident, and Critical Illness.
• Competitive Salary/Wages
• Competitive Paid Time Off Structure including Vacation, Sick, Holiday Pay, Jury Duty Leave, and Bereavement Leave.
• Standard Annual Performance/Salary Reviews
• Merit and Cost of Living Adjustments
• Complimentary Meals Daily
• Free Parking
• Employee and Friends & Family Lodging Discounts as low as forty-nine dollars per night at all HCH Properties.
• 50% Discount when Dining at any HCH Property.
• Industry Discounts through Working Advantage (Entertainment Tickets, Hotels, Rental Cars, Outdoor Activities, Restaurants, etc.).
• Discounts at each of our Spas, Golf Courses, Fitness rooms/programs and other featured amenities.
• Supportive, open-door policy work environment.
• Work Culture that is fun, energetic and motivating.
• Employee Recognition Program - 'Delight and Surprise Dollars'

About Hay Creek Hotels

Founded in 2005, Hay Creek Hotels was created specifically to combine the intimacy of a boutique hotel with world-class cuisine, cutting-edge technology, unparalleled guest service and the exclusive amenities of a luxury inn. At Hay Creek Hotels, our passion is to pioneer superior service and inspire excitement within the small, independent hotel sector: to "Delight & Surprise" our guests every day. These values are driven by the idea that the best hotels and restaurants are the ones that draw on the spirit, culture and character of their locales. From meticulously renovated historic properties to exciting new-build hotels, we offer some of the most unique and interesting lodging and dining destinations in the United States. Our hotels and resorts are designed to reflect their respective neighborhoods and serve as good neighbors by participating in community events and causes. Through environmentally responsible design and day-to-day management, we adhere to best practices for sustainable operations at every location.

Bringing a hyper-local focus to the hotel dining experience, the restaurants in the Hay Creek Hotels collection form deep connections with respected local farms and providers. Our chefs seamlessly integrate their regions’ finest meats, seafood and produce with contemporary cooking styles and flavors. Each Hay Creek restaurant is distinguished by sophisticated yet casual ambiance and cuisine that delivers both comfort and surprise with each bite. We are not the average box hotel, and this is not the average dining experience. Dishes are created each night with the perfect balance of texture, flavor, and presentation. Farm-to-table food brings sensational seasonal menus with creative twists on old classics.

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