Grill Cook - Monday to Friday, No Weekends!

Guest Services•Washington DC, DC

4d•$24•Onsite

About The Position

The responsibility of the Grill Cook is to prepare, cook, and serve food items on the grill and to coordinate with the Chef's or General Manager on all daily and special function menus. This role involves setting up, restocking, and breaking down the grill station, preparing daily meal items and specials, and ensuring food is prepared according to recipes and quality standards. The Grill Cook will operate kitchen equipment, manage food waste, maintain cleanliness, and adhere to safety protocols.

Requirements

Partial High School education required; High School Diploma/G.E.D. preferred
Culinary knowledge
Food Safety certified and strong sanitation habits
Strong customer service abilities; actively looks for ways to assist customers and coworkers
Ability to recognize when a problem has occurred and communicate it to management
Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly frequent movements from place to place within the unit
Ability to stand for the entire work day
Ability to climb steps regularly
Withstanding temperature extremes in freezer, refrigerator walk-in and grill areas
Reading and writing work-related documents in English
Speech recognition and clarity, including the ability to understand the speech of customers and co-workers and the ability to speak clearly so that you can be understood by customers and co-workers in English
Constantly communicates and receives verbal communication with other employees in fast-paced kitchen
Physical presence at the job site is essential to perform job duties

Responsibilities

Setting up, restocking, and breaking down of the grill
Daily production of meal items and daily menu specials
Preparing daily specials, hot sandwich production, and sides for service
Following recipes and product directions for preparing, seasoning, cooking, and tasting meats, vegetables, and other grilled foods
Operating a variety of kitchen equipment to measure and mix ingredients, washing, peeling, cutting and shredding food, and trimming and cutting meat and poultry
Reporting all malfunctioning equipment to the supervisor
Tasting food products, reading menus, estimating food requirements, checking production, and keeping records to accurately plan production requirements
Controlling food production to ensure that extra food products are recycled or disposed of properly to manage food waste
Cleaning all equipment and utensils used in the grill prep and production area
Maintaining temperature logs and signage for the grill station
Maintaining awareness of safety issues, and reporting them immediately to your manager