Line Cook

About the role

The Courtyard Portland City Center is seeking a part time Line Cook to join our team in serving guests with creativity and passion. Work where you belong! As part of Sage Hospitality Group, we passionately strive to be the best and create excellence in everything we do. We believe in enriching lives one experience at a time.

Responsibilities

• To ensure proper service from the front line through quality control, training of line cooks and ensure proper sanitation levels.
• Check all items against the recipe cards, verify that use records are followed for all items served and that food is presented in an efficient, quality manner.
• Monitor the line set up prior to all meal functions to ensure maximum efficiency during meal periods.
• Monitor the equipment maintenance and kitchen "clean as you go" policy to ensure strict adherence.
• Prepare food of consistent quality following recipe cards and production and portion standards, per dupe from servers.
• Start food items that are prepared ahead of time, making sure not to prepare more than estimated needs.
• Date all food containers and rotate as per the SOP, making sure that all perishables are kept at proper temperatures.
• Note any out-of-stock items or possible shortages.
• Assist in keeping buffet stocked.
• Avoid perishables from going to waste by returning all food items not used on next shift to designed storage areas, being sure to cover/date all perishables.
• Aid in correcting any food cost problems; control food waste, loss and usage per SOP.

Requirements

• High school education or equivalent.
• Experience required by position is from one to two full years of employment in a related position with this company or other organization(s).

Qualifications

• Knowledge of cooking and the practices and procedures of a kitchen in order to perform non-repetitive analytical work.

Skills

• Physical Demands: Lifting, pushing, pulling and carrying. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Environment: Inside 95% of 8 hours. Going in the freezer temperatures can be -10 degrees. On the front line, temperatures can be over 100 degrees.

Benefits

• $50 discounted Tri-Met monthly pass
• Drastically reduced hotel rates for you and your friends & family at Marriott Hotels
• Sage Restaurant Concepts discounts (The Original Dinerant, Departure, Urban Farmer)
• 1 week sick time
• Referral Bonus Eligible