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Job Description

Job Description

Description : Position Summary

The Line Chef is responsible for cooking and preparing menu items as requested by customers, stocking necessary food preparation stations and maintaining a clean working space during and after business hours.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

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

• Stock, organize, and clean kitchen and cooking utensils
• Cool, package, label, and freeze foods for later consumption and provide instructions for reheating
• Peel, wash, trim, and cook vegetables and meats, and bake breads and pastries
• Specialize in preparing fancy dishes or food for special diets
• Inspect and clean food preparation areas, such as equipment and work surfaces or serving areas, to ensure safe and sanitary food-handling practices
• Season and cook food according to recipes or personal judgment and experience
• Bake, roast, broil, and steam meats, fish, vegetables, and other foods
• Weigh, measure, and mix ingredients according to recipes or personal judgment
• Consult with supervisory staff to plan menus taking into consideration factors such as costs and special event needs, kitchen utensils and equipment
• Portion, arrange, and garnish food, and serve to waiters or patrons
• Perform other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

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 occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and / or move up to 15 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Requirements :