Banquet Line Cook
About The Position
Boyd Gaming Corporation is seeking a Banquet Line Cook to join their team. This role involves following approved recipes and presentation standards to serve guests with quality, timeliness, and proper portions. The position requires cooking applications of varying complexity and ensuring a fresh, positive, and exciting environment with a focus on sanitation, flawless execution, and product excellence. The cook must adhere to the Blue Chip Employee Handbook and Policy and Procedure Manual, read and convert recipes, and maintain knowledge of sanitation guidelines. Efficiency, accuracy, and a positive work environment are key. The role also involves ensuring food preparation and service areas meet health department codes and assisting at other stations as needed.
Requirements
- Work in varying temperatures
- Temperatures above 85 degrees in Hot Kitchen
- Periodically pushing and pulling heavy carts and lifting products in proper storage areas
- Walking long distances with heavy food products
- Repetitive heavy lifting
- Good eye/hand coordination
- Continuous standing, walking for long periods
- Ability to work in contrasting hot and cold areas
- Tasting food and evaluating quality points at each stage of preparation
- Required to be detail orientated
- Lift food items sometimes as heavy as 100 pounds
- Ability to read and convert recipes in direct proportion
- Should have knowledge of all stages of food preparation
- Must have two years experience in volume kitchen specifically with hot food preparation
- Must be able to read, write, and have understanding of English
- Serv-Safe Certified
Nice To Haves
- High School diploma or equivalent preferred; either a culinary apprenticeship or an associate degree in Culinary Arts
- Must be able to understand French terminology as it applies to cooking applications, a plus
Responsibilities
- Creates and ensures a fresh, positive and exciting environment where sanitation, flawless delivery and execution of product excellence and service is paramount
- Must have strict compliance to the Blue Chip Employee Handbook and Policy and Procedure Manual
- Able to read, convert recipes according to production requirements
- Acquired knowledge of sanitation according to State and Federal guidelines preferred
- Work efficiently and accurately in operating mode
- Maintain a positive work environment
- Follow all approved recipes and/or plate presentations
- Serve all guests according to established standards of quality and pre-determined timeliness and portions
- Assure that all food preparation and service areas are in accordance with the local, State, and Federal Health Department Codes
- Cooking applications vary based on complexity
- Ensures all food products are prepared and cooked according to approved specifications
- Assist at other stations when directed or assigned
- Performs all relative miscellaneous duties as directed by supervisor/manage.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
High school or GED
