Restaurant Cook - Renaissance Waterford

About the role

At Renaissance Waterford Oklahoma City, we don’t just offer jobs. We create opportunities to grow, connect, and thrive in a vibrant, people-first hospitality environment. Located near the upscale Nichols Hills district, our distinctive hotel combines contemporary style, warm service, and panoramic views of the Oklahoma City skyline. Curators help bring memorable experiences to life throughout the hotel, from Ember Modern American Tavern and our inviting guest spaces to elegant event venues, including the Grand Ballroom. With the energy of Oklahoma City just minutes away, Renaissance Waterford offers the perfect setting to build your hospitality career while creating meaningful moments for every guest.

Prepares various foods as directed for breakfast, lunch or dinner at assigned kitchen station including set-up and breakdown of station in accordance with standards and safety and sanitation policies.

Responsibilities

• Prepares a variety of foods with various cooking methods, including steaming, baking, boiling, frying, broiling, and grilling to meet production schedules.
• Pulls required items in sufficient quantities to prep according to menu forecasts.
• Prepare ingredients for cooking, including portioning, chopping, and storing food.
• Wash and peel fresh fruits and vegetables.
• Weigh, measure, and mix ingredients.
• Prepare cold foods.
• Operate ovens, stoves, grills, microwaves, and fryers.
• Sets up, clears and breaks down workstation.
• Prepares selected food as directed in accordance with standard company recipes, quality standards, presentation standards, and food preparation checklist.
• Test foods to determine if they have been cooked sufficiently.
• Monitor food quality while preparing food.
• Has food items portioned and served at appropriate time onto proper receptacles.
• Wash and disinfect kitchen area, tables, tools, knives, and equipment.
• Check and ensure the correctness of the temperature of appliances and food.
• Cleans working and storage areas, tools, equipment and floors as needed.
• Keeps areas neat, clean, and sanitized.
• Reports any maintenance problems or other problem areas to Supervisor as they occur.
• Follows company, safety and sanitation policies and procedures and ensures compliance with these policies.
• Responsible for general knowledge of corporate environmental policies and procedures and how they relate to their job functions. Corporate policies and procedures are posted on bulletin boards or handouts.
• Maintains food at proper temperatures in appropriate size serving pans and handles food following proper procedures to ensure sanitation and safety.
• Controls waste and maintain food cost.
• Maintains all sanitation requirements including product rotation, temperature maintenance, and storage procedures, cooling requirements, and handling techniques.
• Continually and properly trains and re-train all areas of food preparation, safety, and sanitation.
• Maintains and develops teamwork and open lines of communication with employees and supervisors.
• Works safely and efficiently with all kitchen equipment.
• Additional tasks and responsibilities may be assigned at the discretion of the manager.
• Furthermore, tasks and responsibilities may be added or revised based on the volume of business and the need for the work