Pastry Cook: Dessert Production & Night Shift Plating

High Hampton; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 40,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

High Hampton is seeking a Pastry Cook to support dessert production and presentation for restaurant operations in Cashiers, NC. You will work alongside the Pastry Chef to ensure nightly dessert plating, bread baking, and pastry component production.

The role requires at least 1 year of restaurant pastry experience or culinary education, good communication with guests and team, and strong attention to weights and measurements.

Qualifications

• Culinary education preferred with a minimum 1 year experience in restaurant and pastry.
• Ability to compose recipes and communicate effectively with guests and team members.
• Understanding weights, measures and recipe conversions for different batch sizes.
• Willingness to apply judgment and align with company goals.

Responsibilities

• Maintain cleanliness and organization of the bakeshop.
• Communicate pastry supply needs and equipment requirements.
• Rotate and monitor raw and finished pastry products.
• Set up pastry line for nightly dessert plating and bake bread during service.
• Produce minor dessert components and assist with in-room dining and Dogwood dessert production.
• Assist with ice cream inventory and perform deep cleaning after service.

Skills

Recipe composition

Guest communication

Batch scaling

Weights & measures

Education

Culinary education

High school diploma

Job description

High Hampton is seeking a Pastry Cook to support dessert production and presentation for restaurant operations in Cashiers, NC. You will work alongside the Pastry Chef to ensure nightly dessert plating, bread baking, and pastry component production.

The role requires at least 1 year of restaurant pastry experience or culinary education, good communication with guests and team, and strong attention to weights and measurements.