Senior Cook (Ft)

• May prepare food and serve customers at an a la carte station.
• Prepares foods by operating a variety of kitchen equipment to measure and mix ingredients, washing, peeling, cutting, and shredding fruits and vegetables, and trimming and cutting meat, poultry, or fish for culinary use.
• Provides the highest quality of service to customers at all times.
• Tastes products, reads menus, estimates food requirements, checks production, and keeps records to accurately plan production requirements and requisition supplies and equipment.
• May clean and sanitize workstations and equipment and must follow all Sodexo, client, and regulatory rules and procedures.
• Attends all allergy and foodborne illness in-service training.
• Complies with all Sodexo HACCP policies and procedures.
• Reports all accidents and injuries promptly.
• Complies with all company safety and risk management policies and procedures.
• Participates in regular safety meetings, safety training, and hazard assessments.
• Attends training programs (classroom and virtual) as designated.
• Produces small to large-batch goods using an advanced and full range of classical and contemporary cooking, plating, and garnishing techniques.
• Follows complex recipes and/or product directions for preparing, seasoning, cooking, tasting, carving, and serving soups, meats, vegetables, desserts, and other foodstuffs for consumption in eating establishments.
• May assist with the supervision of kitchen personnel.
• Selects recipes per menu cycle, prepares bakery items, receives inventory, moves, and lifts foodstuffs and supplies, and prepares meals for customers requiring special diets.
• Serves as a lead cook guiding and assisting in the training of less experienced cooks.
• Under minimal supervision, independently performs advanced cooking duties in preparing food items to be served to customers.
• Advanced knife skills are required.
• May have oversight over the production staff and assign tasks.
• May use production software to enter pre- and post-production data software.
• May take inventory, and/or enter inventory into the production.
• May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

• Knowledge of culinary trends.
• A proven ability to create unique and delicious dishes.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills.

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