Part-Time Cook Job at 98-1-Stop, Columbia, MS

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  • 98-1-Stop
  • Columbia, MS

Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

A Cook is responsible for preparing ingredients at an establishment that serves food, processing customer orders, producing meals, and cleaning their workspace throughout the day to follow health and safety guidelines. Cooks follow recipes consistently, make adjustments based on customer requests, communicate with wait staff, and prepare garnishes to make an attractive presentation for each meal.  On-the-job training will be provided.

Cooks are responsible for delivering food that is not only delicious and cooked to the specifications of the customer but that is safe and fresh as well. They often have the following responsibilities:

  • Ensure ingredients and final products are fresh
  • Follow recipes, including measuring, weighing and mixing ingredients
  • Bake, grill, steam and boil meats, vegetables, fish, poultry and other foods
  • Present, garnish and arrange final dishes
  • Occasionally serve food
  • Maintain a clean and safe work area, including handling utensils, equipment and dishes
  • Handle and store ingredients and food
  • Maintain food safety and sanitation standards
  • Clean and sanitize work areas, equipment and utensils
  • Execute opening and closing procedures
  • Set up workstations with required ingredients and equipment
  • Check the quality and freshness of ingredients
  • Monitor station inventory levels
  • Accommodate guests’ special requests

Cook skills and qualifications

Cooks must exercise the following qualities and skills:

  • Knowledge of safety procedures, including safe temperatures at which ingredients must be kept and to which food must be prepared to avoid foodborne illness
  • Ability to work as part of a team, collaborating on complex dishes
  • Interpersonal skills to interact with a variety of other people, such as waitstaff, dishwashers, management and sometimes customers
  • Calm demeanor to work in a high-stress, fast-paced environment
  • Accountability for the dishes they prepare measuring up to the expectations of management and customers alike
  • Comprehension and organization to follow direct orders and recipes and to correctly prepare dishes to the standards of the restaurant
  • Manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination to handle tools, such as knife techniques for chopping, slicing, cutting and dicing
  • Ability to stand in one place for hours at a time, handle extreme heat and work shifts

Job Types: Part-time, Full-time

Salary: $9.00 - $10.00 per hour

Benefits:

 

  • Employee discount
  • Flexible schedule

 

Experience level:

 

  • 1 year
  • No experience needed
  • Under 1 year

 

Restaurant type:

 

  • Quick service & fast food restaurant

 

Shift:

 

  • 8 hour shift
  • Day shift
  • Evening shift
  • Morning shift

 

Weekly day range:

 

  • Monday to Friday
  • Rotating weekends
  • Weekends as needed

 

Ability to commute/relocate:

 

  • Columbia, MS 39429: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

 

Shift availability:

 

  • Day Shift (Preferred)
  • Night Shift (Preferred)

 

Work Location: In person

Job Tags

Hourly pay, Full time, Relocation, Monday to Friday, Flexible hours, Shift work, Night shift, Day shift, Afternoon shift

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