Cook Position Available In Hillsborough, Florida
Tallo's Job Summary: The Cook - Lead position involves preparing cooked foods, guiding junior staff, communicating with management and servers, and ensuring high-quality service. Responsibilities include following recipes, estimating food requirements, leading during high volume times, monitoring kitchen activities, and maintaining cleanliness. Minimum qualifications include 3 years of cooking experience and knowledge of food safety standards.
Job Description
Summary:
The Cook – Lead is responsible for preparing cooked foods, and must be able to perform all station
functions of Fry, Flat Top Griddle, Pantry, and cooking eggs; providing guidance to more junior kitchen staff; communicating ticket times and potential problems to the manager on duty and servers as necessary; always providing the highest quality of service to customers and associates; performs all other responsibilities as directed by the business or as assigned by management. This is a non-exempt position.
Essential Functions:
- Follows recipes and/or product directions for preparing, seasoning, cooking, tasting, carving and serving food items which may include soups, meats, vegetables, desserts and other food and beverage products
- Tastes products, follow menus, estimate food requirements, check production and keep records in order to accurately plan production requirements and requisition supplies and equipment as needed
- Provides guidance / leadership for determining process flows during high volume times
- Monitors kitchen activities, providing input and advice to team to optimize productivity
- Cleans and sanitizes workstations and equipment
- Practices excellent food safety and sanitation practices and complies with HACCP standards
- Operates a variety of kitchen equipment, Measures and mixes ingredients, washes, peels, cuts
and shreds fruits and vegetables - Stocks, dates, rotates, and checks temperature of product
Minimum Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, and Work Environment:
- Requires food preparation skills and knowledge of HACCP standards
- Requires a minimum of 3 year of closely related cooking experience in high volume or fast casual dining restaurant environment
- Requires advanced or specialized food knowledge pertaining to making Sauces, Soups, Sauté,
- Broiler, Fry, and Pantry
- Requires the ability to speak, read and comprehend instructions, short correspondence and
policy documents, as well as converse comfortably with customers - Requires the ability to lift and/or move up to 40 pounds
- Requires the ability to bend, twist, and stand to perform normal job functions
- Frequently immerses hands in water and water diluted with chemical solutions
- Frequently works with sharp knives, utensils, and hot plates
- Frequently works in hot environment
- Supervisor/Lead experience preferred To learn more about HMSHost and additional career opportunities, visit https://www.
hmshost.com/. Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE)
Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran (M/F/D/V)
Drug Free Workplace (DFW)
