Food Service - Cook (must have weekend availability)

Lazy Acres•Los Angeles, CA

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Food Service Cook is responsible for performing a variety of duties related to food preparation and customer service. This includes prepping and cooking daily orders, following company recipes and portion sizes, preparing fruits and vegetables for various dishes, making salads and dressings, and preparing cold sandwiches and cheeses. The cook may also work on sauté lines, grills, or pizza ovens. Maintaining quality and sanitation standards according to FDA and local health codes is crucial. The role also requires providing extraordinary customer service with a positive attitude, respect, and flexibility.

Requirements

One-year certificate from college or technical school; or three to six months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Must have weekend availability.
Regularly required to stand, walk, talk or hear, and taste or smell.
Frequently required to sit and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, or tools.
Occasionally required to reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop.
Must occasionally lift or move up to 50 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Responsibilities

Preps, prepares and cooks all items needed for daily orders.
Requisitions supplies daily.
Follows all company’s recipes, and portion sizes when preparing foods following exact specifications.
Peels, cleans and cuts fruits to be served for breakfast of compotes.
Cleans vegetables, fruits, and berries for salads, relishes, and gelatin desserts.
Mixes ingredients for green salads, fruit salads, and potato salad.
Prepares dressings such as Thousand Island, French, and Roquefort to be served on green salads.
Prepares cold sandwiches and cheeses.
If applicable, works sauté line, grill, pizza oven and other cook to order stations.
Follows the FIFO rotation system (First in, First out).
Covers, labels, and dates all leftover foods.
Utilizes leftover foods before opening new products.
Inspects food and food preparation; including measuring temperatures throughout the preparation process, to maintain quality and sanitation by the FDA and local health departmental codes and company’s stringent standards.
Performs some dishwashing.
Provides customer service that is extra ordinary and exceeds the expectations of our customers.
Follows established policies and guidelines that go beyond simply smiling and greeting customers.
Demonstrates a positive “can-do” attitude.
Treats others with respect.
Easily adjusts to changes in the workplace.