Restaurant Chef - Copper Rock

Four Winds Casinos Career Site•New Buffalo, MI

14h•Onsite

About The Position

Responsible for the preparation, seasoning, and cooking of salads, soups, fish, meats, vegetables, desserts, or other foods within an à la carte environment ensuring the efficiency of the line and kitchen operation in accordance with specifications and standards. This role also involves supervising and coordinating activities of cooks and workers engaged in food preparation, collaborating with other personnel to plan and develop recipes and special menus, checking the quality of raw and cooked food products, demonstrating new cooking techniques and equipment to staff, determining food presentation and creating decorative food displays, establishing production schedules and staff requirements, estimating amounts and costs of required supplies, inspecting supplies, equipment, and work areas, instructing cooks and other workers, monitoring sanitation practices, ordering or requisitioning food and other supplies, and recruiting and hiring staff. The position requires maintaining knowledge of current fine dining restaurant trends, following all recipes and specifications, and upholding professional grooming and appearance standards. The role also promotes an atmosphere of fun for casino guests, encourages mutual respect, dignity, and integrity among employees, fosters an environment for sharing ideas and resolving conflicts, and retains employees through training and development.

Requirements

High school diploma or G.E.D.
Culinary degree or formal apprenticeship required
Three to four years fine dining/ à la carte experience
Strong organizational and interpersonal skills required.
Appropriate licenses, as required.
ServSafe® certification, or ability to become certified, required.
Knowledge of HACCP standards required.
This position requires a Level 4 Gaming License.
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret documents, such as policy and procedure manuals, maintenance instructions, and other related documents.
Ability to write effective reports and memos.
Ability to respond to inquiries from employees or guests.
Ability to communicate effectively in one-on-one, small group, and large group situations.
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent, and to interpret data from graphs.
Ability to apply common sense reasoning to variety of situations.

Responsibilities

Prepares and cook foods of all types, either on a regular basis or for special guests or functions.
Supervise and coordinate activities of cooks and workers engaged in food preparation.
Collaborate with other personnel to plan and develop recipes and special menus, taking into account such factors as seasonal availability of ingredients and the likely number of customers.
Check the quality of raw and cooked food products to ensure that standards are met.
Check the quantity and quality of received products.
Demonstrate new cooking techniques and equipment to staff.
Determine how food should be presented, and create decorative food displays.
Determine production schedules and staff requirements necessary to ensure timely delivery of services.
Estimate amounts and costs of required supplies, such as food and ingredients.
Inspect supplies, equipment, and work areas to ensure conformance to established standards.
Instruct cooks and other workers in the preparation, cooking, garnishing, and presentation of food.
Monitor sanitation practices to ensure that employees follow standards and regulations.
Order or requisition food and other supplies needed to ensure efficient operation.
Recruit and hire staff, including cooks and other kitchen workers.
Maintains knowledge of currently used concepts, practices and procedures associated with fine dining restaurant trends.
Follows all recipes, specs, and control procedures.
Maintains professional grooming and appearance and acts as a role model according to established grooming and appearance policy.
Creates an atmosphere of fun for all casino guests.
Encourages mutual respect, dignity and integrity with all employees, by setting positive examples at all times.
Instills an atmosphere that encourages employees to share ideas, discuss concerns, and resolve conflicts.
Retains employees through involvement in training and development.
Explains why we do things, in advance of doing them.