Garden View Cafe Cook

BASIC FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Prepare, cook and present healthy breakfast, lunch and dinner meals for resort employees.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Offer consistently professional, friendly and proactive service to resort employees while supporting fellow colleagues.
• Prepare and service all food items for breakfast, lunch and dinner service in the Employee Cafeteria
• Prepare salad bar items, set up stations, post menu on per meal basis, and serve food during service.
• Carve various meats, proteins, and other menu items correctly, and verbalize the different options, including sauces and garnishes.
• Maintain proper rotation of product in all refrigerators to minimize wastage/spoilage.
• Learn, retain, and demonstrate a full knowledge and understanding of all foods served in the cafeteria
• Follow recipes, instructions from sous chefs, and work as part of larger team unit focusing on quality and consistency.
• Ensure the cleanliness and maintenance of all work areas, utensils, and equipment.
• Follow kitchen policies, procedures and service standards.
• Follow all safety and sanitation policies when handling food and beverage.
• Lift up to 50 pounds from ground level to waist level and carries a distance of up to 100 feet with/ without assistance. Walk up to 5 miles per day.
• Reach with hands and arms, bend, kneel, stoop, twist and flex arms, walk up and down stairs/inclines, sit, climb up/down ladders or stand for up to 5 hours at a time.
• Handle hot items with care.
• Work clean and be responsible for kitchen organization and orderliness.
• Maneuver carts or dollies safely with loads up to 200 pounds up and down stairs, elevators, through passageways or outdoors up to 75 feet.
• See close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Assist all service staff and company workers in a professional manner insuring our guest service is in accordance with company standards.
• Bake, roast, broil, and steam meats, fish, vegetables, and other foods.
• Assist in production planning, record keeping and reporting as required.
• Assist in the requisitioning and receiving of all food and supplies as required.
• Attend shift briefings and actively participate daily.
• Check and ensure the correctness of the temperature of appliances and food.
• Check the working condition of equipment and machinery in accordance with specifications.
• Communicate assistance needed during busy periods.
• Ensure adherence to quality expectations and standards.
• Ensure employee meals are properly portioned, seasoned, and served with care.
• Follow all company and safety and security policies and procedures
• Identify safety hazards and inform supervisor of hazardous situations, emergencies or threats to the security of guests, employees or hotel assets.
• Inspect work by touch, sight, sound and smell for conformance to prescribed standards
• Keep refrigerators and storerooms clean and neat. Ensures food and supply items are stored per standards.
• Maintain confidentiality of proprietary information; protect company assets.
• Maintain food and cooler logs.
• Maintain good working relationships with coworkers, guests, and managers.
• Monitor food quality while preparing food.
• Monitor the quality and quantity of food that is prepared.
• Operate equipment such as ovens, stoves, grills, microwaves, steamers, kettles, and fryers.
• Perform job safely while maintaining a clean, safe work environment.
• Perform basic mathematical functions with recipes such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
• Prepare and cook food according to recipes, quality standards, presentation standards, and food preparation checklist.
• Prepare special dietary meals or substitute items.
• Regulate temperature of ovens, broilers, grills, and roasters.
• Complete safety training and certifications when offered. Become certified in food service sanitation practices and prevention of food borne illnesses.
• Set-up and break down work station.
• Speak, read and write the English language and communicate in a clear and congenial manner, with our guests, visitors and employees. Hear verbal instructions, directions and warnings.
• Test foods to determine if they have been cooked sufficiently.
• Wash and disinfect kitchen area, tables, tools, knives, and equipment.
• Weigh, measure, and mix ingredients.
• Adhere to Mohonk Mountain House’s Dress and Grooming Standards; presenting a neat, clean and well-groomed appearance and maintaining a positive, professional image to our customers.
• Learn and successfully demonstrate the Mohonk Mountain House Service Steps with Service Strategies with guests and staff.
• Maintain a flexible work schedule including days/nights, weekdays/weekends, holidays, and during peak periods of business.
• Taste sweet, sour, bitter, and salty and demonstrate a sense of smell.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• At least 18 years old.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.