Cook 2, The Supper Club

Cook-2 Job Description

A day in the life of our Cook-2's it demands high levels of energy in order to keep up. They need consistency even though the days are never alike; and creativity to tackle daily adventures. Listing all of the tasks that our Cook 2 accomplish would be lengthy but the list below is essential to know.

Our Cook-2s are responsible for preparing ingredients for cooking, including portioning, chopping, and storing. Washing and peeling fresh fruits and vegetables. They also prepare and cook food during their day. This will include setting-up, cleaning and breaking down their work station. They also wash and disinfect the kitchen areas including tables, tools, knives, and equipment to ensure our guests receives nothing but the best experience.

Develop and maintain a positive working relationship with other employees.

Daily communication with Cook 1, Cook 1 Supervisor and Sous Chef. Discuss hotel status, special attention arrivals and /or special attention guests with dietary/allergic restrictions, kitchen status (equipment repairs, cleanliness, and special needs projects).

Proper communications with stewards to ensure kitchen is running at the highest possible sanitary standards.

Ensure complete wash and sanitized kitchen is passed over to the next shift.

Working knowledge of all stewarding processes and equipment's.

Closely monitor portion sizing to ensure consistency.

Assist in maintaining all logs and checklists for State and Internal audits.

Assist for protein/plate counts for service.

Assist for (Preventative) Maintenance log in Chef's office with engineering team.

Thorough check of all walk-ins to ensure proper storage and rotation.

Expert in plating using proper service ware.

Ensure storerooms are in excellent condition, maintaining/delegating maintenance when necessary.

Sometimes our guests have special requests involving dietary and/or allergy restrictions. Our Cook-2's offer suggestions of ways to improve guests' experiences through new food offerings and ideas to drive revenue

Our hotels are truly luxury hotels. This requires preventing and correcting the imperfections and blemishes that tend to come up. Our Cook-2s are relied upon to report these and work with several other positions to correct. Communication is what keeps our departments running perfectly. Our Cook-2s must communicate with other departments and extended hotel team in order to ensure the alignment remains.

The items shared are essential. However, to ensure consistency, our Cook-2s are provided with specifics on how we care for their department and our hotel.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, and hear. The employee frequently is required to walk and stand for up to 8 hours. Ability to bend, stoop, crouch, use hand, finger and wrist dexterity. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

The Beverly Hills Hotel