Line Cook

Union Rec Cook

Here's to the kind of joint built to live on Main Street like it's been here all along. Here's to some hometown stories told in the shapes of comfort food from hometowns all over the globe: bold bites from your favorite taqueria, smokey BBQ straight from the backlot, street food with the authenticity of a Singapore alley delivered alongside the Ann Arbor train tracks. Grandma's recipe is right at home here: regardless of how many meters or mountains come between her place and this one. At Union Rec, our crew brings all they know from wherever they've been so you can have something that takes you somewhere… right here. In the dining room. Along the bar rail. Around the fireplace. It all starts the moment the baristas click open the doors for coffee and pastries; and it continues through service when the kitchen and bar sling the kind of craft that makes us what we are. We're like the upper bunk... where stories and snickers from fellow campers mean sleep is the last thing on your mind... and the counselors are dedicated to making sure you're having a time of it. It's like that: a bit throwback and a bit forward at the same time. And it's right at home here on Main Street between the Big House and downtown in Ann Arbor. All comfort. Always game for it. Competitive pay and benefits including medical and supplemental insurance, on-demand pay, referral bonus, 401(k) and PTO!

Position Summary

Cooks prepare and/or direct the preparation of food to be served complying with all applicable sanitation, health, and personal hygiene standards and following established food production programs and procedures. Ensure appropriate use of facility supplies and equipment to minimize loss, waste, and fraud.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

• Preparing or directing preparation of food served using established production procedures and systems
• Determining amount and type of food and supplies required using production systems; ensuring availability of supplies and food or approved substitutions in adequate time for preparation; serving or ensuring proper serving of food for dining room and bar areas
• Complying with established sanitation standards, personal hygiene, and health standards; observing proper food preparation and handling techniques
• Storing food properly and safely by marking dates and items
• Reporting necessary equipment repair and maintenance promptly
• Correctly preparing all food served following standard recipes, customer orders and special diet orders; portioning food for serving
• Planning food production to coordinate with service hours so that excellence, quality, temperature, and appearance of food are preserved
• Maintaining daily production records
• Keeping work area neat and clean at all times; cleaning and maintaining equipment used in food preparation
• Completing food and cooler temperature checks before and during service
• Performing opening, closing and ongoing cleaning and stocking side work as assigned
• Performing other work-related duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities)

• Must be 18 years of age

• Prior experience in related food service positions required

• Moderate reading and writing skills; ability to follow written and oral instructions and procedures

• Promotes positive public relations with guests

• Proficient interpersonal relations and communicative skills; cooperates and works together with all co-workers; plan and complete job duties with minimal supervisory direction, including appropriate judgment

• Ability to stand, reach, lift, bend, kneel, stoop, climb, push and pull items weighing 50 pounds or less

• Manual dexterity; auditory and visual skills

Physical Demands And Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions. While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands or fingers, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is regularly required to lift, bend, kneel, stoop, climb, push and pull items weighing 50 pounds or less. Employee is regularly exposed to kitchen equipment (e.g., oven, stove, dishwasher, slicer, coffee machine, steamer, mixer, and chef's knives).