San Antonio 53 (IH10/Loop 1604 E) True TX BBQ - BBQ Pitmaster - Full time

About the Role

As a Line Cook / BBQ Pitmaster, you'll provide superior fast, fresh, and friendly customer service in a fast-paced restaurant environment. You'll prep ingredients for the kitchen and maintain department and food safety and sanitation standards.

Responsibilities

• Cuts, slices, dices, chops food for recipe preparation; preps in accordance with recipe specifications and SOPs
• Prepackages condiments (sauces, dressings) for prepared food items
• Completes tasks at assigned work station
• Assists in multiple cooking venues and technical areas, including catering orders as needed
• Masters recipe preparation, accounting for raw material variations and customer demand
• Prepares, packages, and plates fresh product
• Ensures compliance with department, store, and standard operating procedures for food safety and sanitation
• Properly handles and maintains temperature integrity of all ingredients, product, and equipment
• Maintains sanitation in food preparation areas
• Provides superior customer service, including detailed knowledge of menu items, ingredients, and prep methods
• Assists guests as needed and ensures a sense of urgency related to accuracy, speed, and freshness of orders
• Performs other duties as assigned

Requirements

• 18 years of age or older
• 1+ years of experience in commercial foodservice
• Required experience in food preparation and equipment
• Culinary knowledge and understanding of nutritional values and ingredients
• Strong communication, interpersonal, reading, and writing skills
• Technology, planning, and organizing skills
• Culinary math skills for recipe conversion
• Ability to execute high-volume production
• High school diploma or GED (or equivalent)
• Culinary certification or equivalent combination of culinary training and experience

Physical Demands & Working Conditions

• Function in a fast-paced, retail environment with extended hours and/or rotating schedules
• Constantly reach at waist, grasp, and stand or walk for 5.5+ hours per 8-hour day
• Frequently exposed to fumes, airborne particles, toxic or caustic materials, and heat (2.5–5.5 hours per 8-hour day)
• Occasionally reach overhead, at shoulder, knee, or floor; bend, stoop, squat, crouch, kneel, climb stairs, pivot, twist, push/pull with arms, or perform fine motor movements (0–2.5 hours per 8-hour day)
• Occasionally exposed to wet, cold, ambient temperatures, and loud noise
• Demonstrate the ability to lift 80 lbs and manage in excess of 80 lbs with a team lift

Partners must never lift beyond their own safe lifting limit. If an item is too heavy, break it down or ask for assistance.