Kitchen Cook

Testarossa Winery•San Jose, IL

9h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Testarossa Winery culinary team caters our onsite corporate and social events with Seasonal Farm-to-Table California Cuisine with world influences at a fine dining level, utilizing the highest quality ingredients available to us, to pair with our high-quality wines (over 1,900 90+ point scores). They recently won a certificate of recognition from “The Confrerie de la Chaine des Rotisseurs” the world’s oldest, largest, most prestigious food and wine society! As a part-time Kitchen Cook, you’ll execute seasonal menu items designed around world class Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays for corporate, social and club events at the winery. Working at our offsite kitchen in San Jose, the day to day may include: Prepping and cooking menu items according to instruction and support from the executive and sous chefs, Labeling, stocking, and organizing ingredients to sanitation and food safety guidelines, Managing ingredients and inventory; communicating and reporting to the executive and sous chefs, Providing support in the following areas: events line execution, wine bar food prep, pastry/baking prep, and porter.

Requirements

1+ year of kitchen experience or equivalent culinary education
ServSafe and/or California Food Handlers Certification
Ability to adjust and modify recipe quantity
Safe knife skills and kitchen sanitation knowledge
Ability to work effectively in a team, be proactive, have a sense of urgency, a positive attitude and effective communication

Responsibilities

Prepping and cooking menu items according to instruction and support from the executive and sous chefs
Labeling, stocking, and organizing ingredients to sanitation and food safety guidelines
Managing ingredients and inventory; communicating and reporting to the executive and sous chefs
Providing support in the following areas: events line execution, wine bar food prep, pastry/baking prep, and porter