Lead Cook

• Full Time
• Pay Range: $19-$20

Responsibilities/Duties/Functions/Tasks:

• Effectively leads a team of line cooks.
• Participates in the interviewing and training of new hires.
• Place orders for food, supplies, and disposables with vendors.
• Creates and maintains shift schedules for all restaurant employees.
• Maintains inventory of all food and supplies.
• Ensures final product leaving the kitchen is consistent and high-quality 
• Continuously creates efficiencies in the kitchen.
• Sets up workstations with all needed ingredients and cooking equipment.
• Prepares ingredients including but not limited to washing, peeling, chopping, marinating meat, baking, and any other tasks necessary to prepare for service.
• Properly operates various kitchen equipment and utensils.
• Properly cooks and monitors the cooking process to prevent waste.
• Ensures each order is presented properly and appealingly.
• Keeps a sanitized and orderly environment in the kitchen per health code standards.
• Ensures all food is stored properly and labeled correctly.
• Maintains quality control of ingredients.
• Keeps up-to-date inventory, monitors stock, and places orders as needed.
• Prepares batches of food that are cooked to order or kept warm until ordered and sold, which may include such food items as hamburgers or fried chicken.
• Operates large-volume cooking equipment such as griddles, grills, or deep fryers
• Prepares, washes, and cuts food to be cooked.
• Prepares and cooks food according to instructions provided on food order slips or through verbal directions; verifies the quality and quantity of all orders.
• Multitasks by cooking several different orders at once, ensuring that all items are prepared per customer instructions.
• Maintains overall sanitation, health, cleanliness, and safety standards for food preparation areas, cooking services, and dishes and utensils.
• Performs other related duties as assigned

• Proven experience cooking professionally
• Knife skills, and experience with varied kitchen tools, cookware, and bakeware
   
• Knowledge of various cooking procedures and methods (grilling, baking, boiling etc.)
• Strong communication skills
• Able to perform all physical requirements of the position
• Ability to follow all food handling techniques, preparation, and cooking procedures
• Ability to function well in a high-paced and at times stressful environment
• Ability to work quickly and efficiently
• Ability to lead and work well as part of a team
• Ability to maintain personal hygiene
• High school diploma or equivalent
• Diploma from a culinary school is preferred but not required
• Current Food Handlers Certification (Food Manager Certification preferred)
• Ability to follow all sanitation and regulations for workplace safety procedures