✓Assist customers with their orders
✓Responsible for all aspects of food preparation (prep work and cooking) including but not limited to:
✓Grilling items for plate lunches
✓Cooking chicken and other hot items
✓Scratch baking (determined by store)
✓Cooking all items for bentos
✓Making sandwiches/salads
✓Making all other hot and cold foods
✓Responsible for all aspects of the front of the house, including assisting customers with their orders and ringing up customers for their purchases (at applicable stores)
✓Enforce sanitation procedures and product organization/rotation
✓Training new Cooks, Prep Cooks and servers in all operational tasks
✓Administrative duties, including but not limited to:
✓Transfers
✓Inventories
✓Routine ordering
✓Oversee back-of-the-house operations
✓Oversee front-of-the-house operations
✓Quality control/maintaining recipe standards
✓Answer department phone
✓Understand and abide by all company policies and procedures
✓Transportation of grilled foods
✓Pack, rotate, and label all prepared foods
✓Bakery merchandising
✓Cutting prepared meats for line service
✓All aspects of set up/break down for service line
✓Restock all plastic and paper goods (utensils, bags, cups, napkins), drinks and condiments
✓Cleaning, including washing dishes, trash and box disposal, sanitation of all surfaces, sweeping, mopping
✓Restock soaps, sanitizers, and other associated chemicals
✓Make store announcements regarding kitchen specials
✓Perform demonstrations when necessary (sample out new items)
✓Any tasks as deemed necessary by management
✓18 years of age or older (operates heavy machinery)
✓Must be able to safely lift 40-50 lbs unassisted
✓Stand for extended periods of time (4-10 hours)
✓Push and pull up to 100 lbs
✓Detail-oriented
✓Organized
✓Able to work independently and as a team member
✓Able to multi-task
✓Resourceful
✓As determined by employee handbook
✓May require working early mornings, evenings, weekends and holidays
✓Occasional longer shifts (10 hours)
✓Fast-paced environment
✓Serving area: Cool to room temperature
✓Extremely hot and/or cold temperatures: Warehouse/kitchen (100+o F); Chill (35o F)/freezer (-10o F)
✓Working with hot pans/serving trays, grill, hot oven, steamer, fryer, etc.
✓Working with chemicals for sanitation
✓Working with knives and slicing machinery
✓Education/Training/Experience:
✓High school diploma or equivalent
✓Three years external experience as a Cook or two years internal experience as a Cook
✓One year supervisory experience preferred
✓Communication:
✓Excellent customer service skills
✓Ability to effectively communicate with others
✓Good phone etiquette
✓Possess acceptable written and verbal communication skills in English
✓Other:
✓Accurately and efficiently complete work in a timely manner
✓Able to multi-task
✓Highly organized
✓Attention to detail
✓Able to effectively prioritize work
✓Able to meet deadlines in a short period of time
✓Able to quickly pick up and follow through with various projects
✓Troubleshooting/problem-solving ability