Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria

Job Description

Job Description

About This Role

Prepare and cook large quantities of food for institutions, such as schools, hospitals, or cafeterias.

• Clean and inspect galley equipment, kitchen appliances, and work areas to ensure cleanliness and functional operation.
• Apportion and serve food to facility residents, employees, or patrons.
• Cook foodstuffs according to menus, special dietary or nutritional restrictions, or numbers of portions to be served.
• Clean, cut, and cook meat, fish, or poultry.
• Monitor use of government food commodities to ensure that proper procedures are followed.
• Wash pots, pans, dishes, utensils, or other cooking equipment.
• Compile and maintain records of food use and expenditures.
• Direct activities of one or more workers who assist in preparing and serving meals.
• Bake breads, rolls, or other pastries.
• Train new employees.
• Take inventory of supplies and equipment.
• Monitor menus and spending to ensure that meals are prepared economically.
• Plan menus that are varied, nutritionally balanced, and appetizing, taking advantage of foods in season and local availability.
• Requisition food supplies, kitchen equipment, and appliances, based on estimates of future needs.
• Determine meal prices, based on calculations of ingredient prices.

• Inspect facilities, equipment or supplies to ensure conformance to standards.
• Clean food preparation areas, facilities, or equipment.
• Serve food or beverages.
• Cook foods.
• Cut cooked or raw foods.
• Prepare foods for cooking or serving.
• Monitor food services operations to ensure procedures are followed.
• Clean tableware.
• Record operational or production data.
• Coordinate activities of food service staff.
• Prepare breads or doughs.
• Train food preparation or food service personnel.
• Maintain food, beverage, or equipment inventories.
• Monitor food services operations to ensure procedures are followed.
• Plan menu options.
• Order materials, supplies, or equipment.
• Determine prices for menu items.

• Data entry software
• Microsoft Excel
• Apple corers
• Blast chillers
• Blenders
• Bone saws
• Box graters
• Braziers
• Bread slicers
• Broilers
• Cappuccino makers
• Carbonated beverage dispensers
• Cash registers
• Chefs' knives
• Commercial coffee grinders
• Commercial coffeemakers
• Commercial dishwashers
• Commercial ice cream machines
• Commercial kitchen convection ovens
• Commercial kitchen steamers
• Commercial microwave ovens
• Commercial stand mixers
• Commercial use combination ovens
• Convection ovens
• Conveyor ovens
• Cream whippers
• Desktop computers
• Disposal units
• Double boilers
• Electric deep-fat fryers
• Electric stoves
• Fire suppression blankets
• Food dicers
• Food processors
• Food shredders
• Food slicers
• Garbage compactors
• Gas stoves
• Gas-powered deep-fat fryers
• GNOME Gnutrition
• Griddles
• Grills
• Hot dog cookers
• IBM Lotus 1-2-3
• Ice shaving or crushing equipment
• Ice-making machines
• Infrared heat lamps
• Juice dispensers
• Juice extractors
• Kitchen fire extinguishers
• Kitchen shears
• Kitchen tongs
• Knife sharpeners
• Mandolines
• Meals Plus
• Meat grinders
• Meat thermometers
• Microsoft Word
• Mixers
• Oyster knives
• Paring knives
• Parisian cutters
• Pasta machines
• PCS Revenue Control Systems FASTRAK School Meal Software
• Personal computers
• Pizza ovens
• Point of sale POS computer terminals
• Point of sale POS software
• Portion scales
• Pressurized steam cookers
• Refrigerator thermometers
• Rice cookers
• Rotisserie ovens
• Salamanders
• Serrated blade knives
• Sieves
• Sifters
• Spreadsheet software
• Steam kettles
• Steam tables
• Strainers
• Tilt skillets
• Toasters
• Touch screen monitors
• Waffle makers
• Woks
• Word processing software