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Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria

The Learning Loft

Job Description

Job Description


About This Role

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

What You'll Do

  • 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.

Requirements

  • 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.

Nice To Haves

  • 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
Vacancy posted 20 days ago
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