The posting
We’re looking for enthusiastic, fun, and energetic people who take the work seriously, but not themselves. Let’s see if we’re a fit. We hope so.
The Prep Cook will be responsible for preparing the kitchen in a multitude of tasks to include the day to day preparation of the meals within all the F & B outlets and to continually uphold the Mainsail Lodging & Development standards.
What you have
- High School diploma or equivalent or higher
- Minimum of 1-year experience in restaurant
- Previous culinary kitchen experience, pastry & baking preferred
- Excellent customer service skills
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
What you’ll do
- Basic vegetable prep – peeling, slicing, dicing, and portioning
- Basic sauce prep – primarily stocks, salad dressings, sauces and vinaigrettes
- Basic cooking of bulk prep items braised meats, soups, and sides
- Minor butchering –processing whole poultry and fish
- Baking & pastry preparation
- General cleaning – to include equipment, floors, walls, coolers, and freezers
- Dishwashing –all Luminary & Co. kitchen staff wash dishes
- Ability to listen and understand specific
- Ability to cut and chop food as well as other tasks
- Ability to work long hours standing over hot stoves and grills.
- Ability to work as a team in a stressful, fast-paced environment
- Follow Safe Staff sanitary compliance throughout every area working in the kitchen
- Follow all safety procedures to include knife safety
- Restock clean dishes, flatware and all cooking equipment to the appropriate storage areas.
- Maintain the kitchen work area in an orderly and clean condition.
- Clean or prepare various food for cooking or serving to include peeling vegetables, portioning products, etc.
- Follow proper hand washing procedures
- Assist with plate up dinners during banquets
- Stock supplies for the kitchen in specified locations and maintain area in order
- Sweep, Scrub, mop floors. Wipe walls, coolers, freezers and equipment
- Sort and remove trash and clean the garbage cans / whales daily
- Maintain trash area and place in proper area for pickup
- Assist with loading and unloading of food deliveries and supplies
- Maintain a professional presentable uniform and personal grooming
- Able to effectively communicate with the team on a daily basis
- Maintain a sense of ownership for the hotel / restaurant
- Follow Safe Staff sanitary compliance throughout every area working in the kitchen
- Perform other duties as management requests to service our guests
Physical Demand
- Ability to sit or stand for extended periods of time
- Ability to communicate clearly
- Corrected vision to normal range
- Ability to use knives, kitchen machinery safely and effectively.
- Ability to lift 20 lbs.
- Long hours sometimes required
Mental Demands
- Make sound judgments quickly
- Ability to work with others in a high demand kitchen
- Work on multiple tasks, making appropriate progress towards deadlines
- Able to work independently, take direction and provide direction to others
- Manage differing personalities within the kitchen, the hotel and the community
- Maintain the highest degree of confidentiality
- Ability to work effectively in stressful, high pressure situations
- Ability to effectively handle challenges in the workplace, including anticipating, preventing, identifying and solving problems as necessary
