Cook

Chula Vista Resort • Wisconsin Dells, WI

36d • Onsite

About The Position

Essential Job Functions include: • Inspect and clean food preparation areas, such as equipment, work surfaces, and serving areas, to ensure safe and sanitary food-handling practices. • Ensure freshness of food and ingredients by checking for quality, keeping track of old and new items, and rotating stock. • Ensure food is stored and cooked at correct temperature by regulating temperature of ovens, broilers, grills, and roasters. • Season and cook food according to recipes or personal judgment and experience. • Observe and test foods to determine if they have been cooked sufficiently, using methods such as tasting, smelling, or piercing them with utensils. • Produce and serve all foods for Kaminski Chophouse including: steak, chicken, and various seafoods, vegetables, and other foods. • Work several different stations, including: prep, carver, sauté and dessert. • Knows and complies consistently with our standard portion sizes, cooking methods, quality standards and kitchen rules, policies and procedures.

Requirements

• High School Diploma
• 1 year experience working as a chef in a fine dining restaurant
• The ability to work with other people effectively and with other staff positions is important.
• Must be trainable and take instruction to learn position.
• Lifting and carrying: The ability to lift or carry items of 20 pounds with or without reasonable accommodations.
• Responding to sounds: The ability to respond quickly to sounds
• Manual dexterity: The ability to use fine motor abilities for detailed tasks, such as handling knives for chopping, cutting and dicing
• Balance and coordination: The ability to ensure stability during task performance, such as executing precise movements
• Hearing: The ability to hear, understand, and distinguish speech and/or other sounds
• Vision: The ability to see clearly at approximately 20 inches or less (near visual acuity) and at 20 feet or more (far visual acuity)

Nice To Haves

• 2 year experience as a chef in a fine dining restaurant

Responsibilities

• Inspect and clean food preparation areas, such as equipment, work surfaces, and serving areas, to ensure safe and sanitary food-handling practices.
• Ensure freshness of food and ingredients by checking for quality, keeping track of old and new items, and rotating stock.
• Ensure food is stored and cooked at correct temperature by regulating temperature of ovens, broilers, grills, and roasters.
• Season and cook food according to recipes or personal judgment and experience.
• Observe and test foods to determine if they have been cooked sufficiently, using methods such as tasting, smelling, or piercing them with utensils.
• Produce and serve all foods for Kaminski Chophouse including: steak, chicken, and various seafoods, vegetables, and other foods.
• Work several different stations, including: prep, carver, sauté and dessert.
• Knows and complies consistently with our standard portion sizes, cooking methods, quality standards and kitchen rules, policies and procedures.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED