About the position
Pacific Hospitality Group is seeking a dedicated team member to join our culinary team. The position involves cooking all menu items for breakfast and dinner shifts, ensuring high efficiency, quality, and customer service. The successful candidate will maintain detailed knowledge of all menus, recipes, food quality standards, and regulations, while also overseeing production for line operation and organizing daily prep for the cooks and restaurant. This role requires a commitment to food safety and sanitation standards, as well as the ability to lead and train staff effectively.
Responsibilities
- Assigns tasks, shares management and customer expectations, and provides training and direction to assigned staff.
- Cooks all menu items for breakfast and dinner shifts.
- 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.
- Assists 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.
- 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.
- Acts on reports of potential safety issues and takes immediate action to resolve in emergency situations.
Requirements
- Knife skills knowledge preferably.
- Active state ServeSafe food handler card.
- Positive contributions to the team and positive morale to continue the company culture.
Nice-to-haves
- One to two years prior restaurant food prep experience required.
- Culinary degree or training desired.
- Prior lead or supervisory experience desired.
- Ability to lead others in the department by mentoring and providing training.
- In-depth knowledge of restaurant food preparation, professional cooking, and knife handling skills.
- Ability to serve needs of guests through verbal face-to-face interactions.
- Demonstrates a 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.
