About the position
Pacific Hospitality Group is seeking a dedicated team member to join our culinary team. The position involves overseeing kitchen operations, ensuring high-quality food preparation, and maintaining a positive work environment. The ideal candidate will be responsible for cooking menu items, training staff, and ensuring compliance with health and safety standards. This role requires a commitment to customer service and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
- Assigns tasks, shares management and customer expectations and provides training and direction to assigned staff.
- Cooking all menu items for Breakfast and Dinner shift.
- Supports an environment of high efficiency, quality and customer service.
- Maintains detailed knowledge of all menus, recipes, food quality standards and regulations.
- Assists with overseeing production for line operation.
- Organizes the day's prepping for the cooks and restaurant, supervises line set-up and prepping.
- Monitors labor and makes recommendations to adjust staffing depending on needs of the restaurants.
- Assist in directing and correcting the presentation and portioning of food.
- Ensures food leaves the kitchen simultaneously and in a timely fashion, is of high quality, and is prepared according to order.
- Oversees and participates in preparation of food items, such as salads, soups, sauces, meats, and vegetables according to prescribed recipes and guidelines.
- Bakes, roasts, broils and steams meats, fish, vegetables and other foods.
- Adds seasoning to foods during mixing or cooking, according to recipe and adjusts as needed.
- Reads menu to estimate food requirements and requisitions food from storage.
- Observes and tests foods being cooked and uses thermometer to ensure food is cooked and maintained at proper temperature.
- Carves meats, portions food onto serving plates, adds gravies and sauces and garnishes servings.
- Follows all standard food handling, sanitation and health department guidelines.
- Ensures compliance with federal, state, local and company health, safety, and sanitation standards.
- Must wear non-slip, oil resistant shoes and follow all safety policies and procedures.
Requirements
- Knife skills knowledge preferably.
- Active state ServeSafe food handler card.
- Positive contributions to the team and positive moral to continue the company culture.
Nice-to-haves
- One-Two years prior restaurant food prep experience required.
- Culinary degree or training desired.
- Prior lead or supervisory experience desired.
- Requires ability to lead others in the department by mentoring and providing training that results in staff that meets/exceeds guest expectations.
- Possess an in-depth knowledge of restaurant food preparation, professional cooking and knife handling skills.
- Requires ability to serve needs of guest through verbal face-to-face interactions.
- Must demonstrate positive attitude and professional demeanor.
- Requires communication and interpersonal skills and commitment to a high level of guest satisfaction.
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as recipes, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
- Must be able to speak, read, write and understand English.
