Senior Living Kitchen Chef - Nutritious, Timely Meals

Sunshine Retirement Living; Dallas (GA); On-site; USD 32,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

Sunshine Retirement Living is seeking a dedicated food service team member to assist in preparing nutritious meals and maintaining high sanitation standards. You will work with fellow kitchen staff to follow menus and portion-control guidelines, ensuring residents receive attractive, well-presented meals.

The role requires reading recipes, strong customer service, and effective communication in English. This on-site position emphasizes teamwork, discretion with confidential information, and

Qualifications

• High school graduate or equivalent
• Must be 18 years of age
• Culinary Arts Degree or two (2) years’ experience in institutional or full-service restaurant cooking preferred
• Ability to read and prepare recipes, in careful detail, as provided by the company
• Knowledge of and ability to comply with Food Service sanitation practices
• Ability to courteously work with staff and residents in resolving food service problems
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing, with residents and staff
• Ability to work with little supervision and maintain a high level of performance and customer service
• Meets state related requirements (as applicable for position)
• Ability to work in a team setting and be a team player
• Maintain a positive, respectful, and professional approach with coworkers and residents
• Ability to keep all business and operations information confidential
• Possess excellent customer service and organizational skills
• Ability to work under time constraints and meet department deadlines
• Ability to follow and adhere to policies, procedures and standards
• Satisfactorily pass company’s and state regulated criminal record clearance, health screening and TB clearance (if applicable)

Responsibilities

• Review menus and daily food production worksheets for instructions
• Prepare meals following community menus and recipes
• Practice community portion-control standards
• Follow safe food-handling and storage procedures
• Ensure that food, supplies, and appropriate personnel are available for the meal planned
• Serve nutritious food, attractively garnished in a punctual manner
• Follow procedures for covering, labeling, dating, and storing food and complete leftover logs
• Ensure temperature logs are completed at the required time (Cooler, Freezer, Production sheets, and Dishwasher)
• Follow company sanitation standards by effectively cleaning while working, including the preparation, and serving areas, pots and pans, kitchen surfaces, walls and floors using appropriately cleaning schedules and charts
• Focus on resident satisfaction and resolve any food-complaint issues as needed
• Assist with the set-up of special functions
• Performs other duties as assigned by supervisor
• May be assigned to any other job functions in the community on a relief basis

Skills

Read recipes

Sanitation knowledge

Team player

Customer service

English communication

Education

High school diploma

Culinary Arts degree or 2 years’ experience

Job description

Sunshine Retirement Living is seeking a dedicated food service team member to assist in preparing nutritious meals and maintaining high sanitation standards. You will work with fellow kitchen staff to follow menus and portion-control guidelines, ensuring residents receive attractive, well-presented meals.

The role requires reading recipes, strong customer service, and effective communication in English. This on-site position emphasizes teamwork, discretion with confidential information, and