Job Description
Summary
The Assistant Cook ensures the kitchen is orderly and assists Cooks to prepare and arrange food. Duties include cleaning the kitchen area, washing dishes and utensils and ensuring that the Kitchen Manager has everything required to run the kitchen efficiently.
Duties
- Clean and inspect galley equipment, kitchen appliances, and work areas to ensure cleanliness and functional operation.
- Apportion and serve food to facility residents, employees, or patrons.
- Cook foodstuffs according to menus, special dietary or nutritional restrictions, or numbers of portions to be served.
- Clean, cut, and cook meat, fish, or poultry.
- Monitor use of government food commodities to ensure that proper procedures are followed.
- Wash pots, pans, dishes, utensils, or other cooking equipment.
- Bake breads, rolls, or other pastries.
- Take inventory of supplies and equipment.
- Monitor menus and spending to ensure that meals are prepared economically.
- Assist in planning menus that are varied, nutritionally balanced, and appetizing, taking advantage of foods in season and local availability.
- Deliver food to off-site childcare locations
Requirements
- Inspect facilities, equipment or supplies to ensure conformance to standards.
- Clean food preparation areas, facilities, or equipment.
- Serve food or beverages.
- Cook foods.
- Cut cooked or raw foods.
- Prepare foods for cooking or serving.
- Monitor food services operations to ensure procedures are followed.
- Clean tableware.
- Record operational or production data.
- Coordinate activities of food service staff.
- Prepare breads or doughs.
- Maintain food, beverage, or equipment inventories.
- Monitor food services operations to ensure procedures are followed.
- Plan menu options.
- MUST HAVE VALID DRIVER'S LICENSE.
Nice To Haves
- Data entry software
- Microsoft Excel
- Apple corers
- Blast chillers
- Blenders
- Bone saws
- Box graters
- Braziers
- Bread slicers
- Broilers
- Cappuccino makers
- Carbonated beverage dispensers
- Cash registers
- Chefs' knives
- Commercial coffee grinders
- Commercial coffeemakers
- Commercial dishwashers
- Commercial ice cream machines
- Commercial kitchen convection ovens
- Commercial kitchen steamers
- Commercial microwave ovens
- Commercial stand mixers
- Commercial use combination ovens
- Convection ovens
- Conveyor ovens
- Cream whippers
- Desktop computers
- Disposal units
- Double boilers
- Electric deep-fat fryers
- Electric stoves
- Fire suppression blankets
- Food dicers
- Food processors
- Food shredders
- Food slicers
- Garbage compactors
- Gas stoves
- Gas-powered deep-fat fryers
- GNOME Gnutrition
- Griddles
- Grills
- Hot dog cookers
- IBM Lotus 1-2-3
- Ice shaving or crushing equipment
- Ice-making machines
- Infrared heat lamps
- Juice dispensers
- Juice extractors
- Kitchen fire extinguishers
- Kitchen shears
- Kitchen tongs
- Knife sharpeners
- Mandolines
- Meals Plus
- Meat grinders
- Meat thermometers
- Microsoft Word
- Mixers
- Oyster knives
- Paring knives
- Parisian cutters
- Pasta machines
- PCS Revenue Control Systems FASTRAK School Meal Software
- Personal computers
- Pizza ovens
- Point of sale POS computer terminals
- Point of sale POS software
- Portion scales
- Pressurized steam cookers
- Refrigerator thermometers
- Rice cookers
- Rotisserie ovens
- Salamanders
- Serrated blade knives
- Sieves
- Sifters
- Spreadsheet software
- Steam kettles
- Steam tables
- Strainers
- Tilt skillets
- Toasters
- Touch screen monitors
- Waffle makers
- Woks
- Word processing software
Benefits
Vacation Leave
Sick Leave
Medical Benefits
Dental Benefits
Vision Benefits
Life Insurance
About Us
The Success Learning Academy (TSLA) takes pride in offering a nurturing environment that embrace and develops the whole child with powerful interactions and a strong foundation.
Our mission and vision is shared and carried out by our entire staff.
Our mission is toSupport byUpliftingChildren and theCommunity toEmpowerStudentSuccess.
Our vision is to ensure that every child is successful in reaching or exceeding their greatest potential.
The Success Learning Academy, Inc. (TSLA)is a childcare learning facility that takes pride in laying the educational foundation in every child in our care.TSLA is family owned and operated, and hasbeen in the childcare business for over 12 years.
We are licensed through Bright from the Start andparticipatein the Quality Rated program.
Ourowners, management team, teachers, and support staff collaborate to ensure our students' needs are met and our age appropriate activities boost confidence.