Intern Culinary - Food & Beverage, The American Club

About the role

Work Mode: Onsite Location: Kohler, WI. Opportunity to aid and produce with little supervision, delivering food of the highest quality in the most efficient and consistent manner to enhance guest satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Prepare all foods necessary for service to the demonstrated culinary standards.
• Produce all quantities according to forecast on station production checklist to reduce food cost.
• Prepare all foods according to tickets, maintaining the established pace of service.
• Prepare all special needs in foods requested as part of our customer focus directives.
• Develop daily specials that contribute to the development of our food program and new menus.
• Understand the expediter’s role in brunch, lunch and dinner service.
• Ensure quality in all that you do.
• Have a knowledge of the supervision of people and demonstrate leadership within your work group.
• Have a working knowledge of checklist systems to manage the production, in relation to forecast, and the updating of those systems as the menus change.
• Set an example of leadership by your adherence to the production checklist and demonstration of correct techniques.
• Ensure that the ordering checklists are adhered to and up to date.
• Assure that all staff are ordering finished pastry, fabricated meats, dry goods and produce on established ordering sheets according to pars.
• Rotate all food stocks (i.e. first in, first out).
• Conduct monthly inventory.
• Manage food production to contribute to the budgeted monthly food cost figure of the hotel.
• Ensure that foods prepared do not fall in the temperature danger zone, 45º - 145º, during storage, preparation or service.
• Sanitize all cutting boards and utensils after fabricating any raw meat, fish or poultry products.
• Maintain personal hygiene in hand washing to prevent cross contamination.
• Adhere to The American Club grooming policies, break policies, and eating policies.
• Clean your work area and practice safe food handling techniques.
• Complete a sanitation course and practice its principles on the job.
• Maintain the knife safety standards as viewed in the safety video during culinary department orientation.
• Wear Kohler Co. approved safety shoes to prevent slips, trips and falls.
• Practice safety in the work area in using the safety stations, managing broken glass and being aware of hazards before someone is hurt.
• Have a working knowledge of all equipment that is within your job duties.
• Know how to assemble, disassemble and clean this equipment.
• Practice safety by asking for assistance for anything that is too heavy for your own body strength.
• Report any faulty equipment to your supervisor or the dispatch office.
• Know how to fill out necessary safety records in the result of an accident in your kitchen.
• Make changes to the environment as a result of any feedback on potential hazards.

Requirements

• Be pursuing a degree in Culinary or completing classes.
• Must be fluent in English and have completed a sanitation course.
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the US without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.

Skills

• Advanced knowledge of culinary terms and techniques.
• Competency in breakfast cookery, vegetable preparations, cooking starches, rice, pasta, and sandwich preparation.
• Advanced meat, fish and poultry fabrication, advanced stocks, soups, and sauce preparation.
• Knowledge of restaurant and banquet buffet service, ala carte service and plated banquet service.
• Ability to develop daily specials that contribute to the development of our food program and new menus.
• Demonstrate leadership in your work group, with the ability to lead the kitchen in the absence of the unit chef.
• Understanding of the development of checklist systems for managing production and ability to develop them for problem solving when necessary.

Benefits

• Ongoing investment in each individual’s personal development and the opportunity to collaborate with others across functions and roles at Kohler.
• Competitive salary, health, vision, dental, 401(k) with company matching, and more.

Pay

The hourly rate for this position is $12.80 - $20