Cook II (Restaurant) - Full Time & Part Time

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Safely prepare all food prep and food items in accordance with standard hotel recipes and specifications.
• Ensure good turnover of products by practicing proper rotation and maintaining product quality.
• Maintain a positive, clear speaking voice and answer guest inquiries.
• Aid in providing excellent guest service by making constant contact with both internal and external guests.
• Monitor staff performance, product quality, and production flow in the absence of Saucier or Sous Chef.
• Foster improvements and participate in the activities of cooks and other team members involved in preparing, cooking, and presenting food.
• Provide optimal guest service by interacting with various hotel departments to obtain necessary information.
• Participate in any other duties as assigned within the scope of this position.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Organized, prioritizes work, and meets deadlines.
• Comprehends and follows supervisor’s instructions.
• Maintains a neat, clean, and well-groomed appearance.
• Able to work with interruptions.
• Strong knowledge of food service industry, cuisines, and beverages.
• Simple reading, writing, math, and task completion skills are required.
• Skills such as coordination, analyzing, precision working, following instructions, memorization, problem solving, independent judgment, and decision making are necessary.
• Flexible working all shifts including holidays, nights, and weekend hours as business needs dictate.

Education And/or Experience

• Minimum 1-year culinary experience in a high-volume restaurant kitchen required or any combination of education, training, or experience that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Physical Demands

• Constantly stands, sits, walks, reaches overhead, bends over, crouches, kneels, climbs, and balances during the duration of their shift.
• Pushes/pulls 25lbs or less frequently and 75lbs or less occasionally.
• Constantly uses both feet, both hands, and requires constant dominant light and firm/strong grasping motions.
• Frequent non-dominant light and firm/grasping motions will be required as well.
• Finger dexterity of both hands will be constantly required.
• Constant use of vision abilities is required including distance, depth perception, field of vision, and color vision.

Work Environment

• Consistently indoors alone and frequently with and around others with the occasional work performed outdoors.
• Face-to-face interactions including verbal contact with others on extended shifts around computer equipment, mechanical, and other electrical devices.
• Exposure to extreme heat, extreme cold, and possible wet and/or humid environments.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.
• Exposure to fumes/odor and/or secondhand smoke.
• Exposure to moving objects, slippery surfaces, and flame/heat generated devices.