BANQUET LINE COOK

About the Role

Prepare food items in accordance with production requirements and quality standards while maintaining a safe, sanitary work environment.

Responsibilities

• Prepare food of consistent quality following recipe cards and production and portion standards, per check from servers.
• Start food items that are prepared ahead of time, ensuring not to over prepare estimated needs.
• Date all food containers and rotate as per Crescent standards, ensuring all perishables are kept at proper temperatures.
• Check pars for shift use, determine necessary preparation, freezer pull, and line set up.
• Note any out-of-stock items or possible shortages.
• Assist in keeping buffet stocked.
• Return all food items not used on next shift to designated storage areas, covering and dating all perishables.
• Assist in setting up plans and actions to correct any food cost problems, control food waste, loss, and usage per Crescent standards.
• Operate, maintain, and properly clean deep fryer, broiler, stove, steamer, food processor, mixer, slicer, oven steam table, tilt kettle, waffle iron, and flat top grill.
• Comply with attendance rules and be available to work on a regular basis.
• Perform any other job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Ability to communicate in English.
• Self-starting personality with an even disposition.
• Maintain a professional appearance and manner at all times.
• Ability to communicate well with guests.
• Willingness to "pitch-in" and help co-workers with their job duties as a team player.
• Finger/hand dexterity to operate food machinery.
• Ability to grasp, lift, and/or carry, or otherwise move goods weighing a maximum of 100 lbs. on a continuous schedule.

Performance Standards

Customer Satisfaction

Our customers are our priority. One key to a positive guest experience is positive interaction with Crescent staff. It is essential to remain professional at all times and treat all guests and associates with courtesy and respect under all circumstances. Every Crescent associate is a guest relations ambassador, every working minute of every day.

Work Habits

To maintain a positive guest and associate experience, work habits should meet and strive to exceed hotel standards for work procedures, dress, grooming, punctuality, and attendance. You should be adaptable to change in your work area and in hotel procedures, with a willingness to learn new skills and/or improve existing ones. You should have the ability to solve routine problems that occur on the job and ask for help whenever unsure how to do something.

Safety & Security

The safety and security of our guests and associates are of utmost importance. Every Crescent associate should adhere to hotel security policies and procedures, particularly regarding key controls, lifting heavy objects, using chemicals, and effectively reporting safety hazards and concerns.