Cook - (Full-time/Rotating Shifts)
23 days ago
Chicago
Job Description Position Highlights: The Cook prepares food for the café and patients by following a recipe, ensures the food is cooked to proper temperature and helps with any catering as necessary Essential Duties and Responsibilities: • Prepares food and serves hospital patrons and patients., • Takes and completes orders from customers and cooks foods requiring short preparation time, according to customer/patient requirements., • Provides the highest quality of service to customers at all times., • Follows 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., • Operates a variety of kitchen equipment to measure and mix ingredients, wash, peel, cut and shred fruits and vegetables, and trimming and cutting meat, poultry or fish for culinary use., • Tastes products, reads menus, estimates food requirements, checks production, and keeps records in order to accurately plan production requirements and requisition supplies and equipment., • Selects recipes per menu cycle, prepares bakery items, receives inventory, moves and lifts foodstuffs and supplies, and prepares meals for customers requiring special diets., • Cleans and sanitizes workstations and equipment, as necessary., • High School/GED, • Previous experience is high desirable