Cook
Job Description
Cooks are the culinary artists, fusing ingredients, methods, and imagination to create dishes that entice the senses and pique the taste buds in the rich and varied world of gastronomy. Cooks are the epitome of culinary artistry; they put love, talent, and creativity into every dish they prepare. They are more than just food preppers. This essay delves into the important function of cooks, illuminating their duties, abilities, and the noteworthy influence they have on the culinary scene and cultural legacy.
Full job description of a Cook
Areas USA is a world-class international leader in casual dining and quick serve food, beverage, and retail services in the travel hospitality industry. With an operating presence in 12 countries throughout Europe and the Americas including US, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Chile, and Mexico, Areas offers a broad range of food services designed to exceed the expectations of travelers in airports, highway service plazas and railway stations.
Areas serves over 348 million guests per year, has 22,500 employees, and is ranked #3 in travel food and retail services worldwide.
Index
Areas has a presence in the following US cities:
- Minneapolis (currently hiring 20+ managers)
- Los Angeles
- Miami
- Orlando
- Chicago
- Boston
- Atlanta
- Washington D.C.
- Indianapolis
- Detroit,
- Newark
Areas is seeking for an amazing energetic associate to join our team as a Cook in one of our restaurants located within Terminal 1 of the Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport.
Our restaurants include:
- People’s Organic
- Panda Express
- Hi-Lo Diner
- Wendy’s
- Cook and Ox Premier Steakhouse
- Cinnabon Bakery
- Auntie Anne’s
- Bruegger’s Bagels
- Blue Door Pub
- City Point Bar
- Greek Kitchen
- LeeAnn Chin
Broad Functions:
Accurately and efficiently cook meats, fish, vegetables, soups and other hot food products as well as prepare and portion food products prior to cooking. Also perform other duties in the areas of food and final plate preparation including plating and garnishing of cooked items and preparing appropriate garnishes for all hot menu item plates.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
- Equipment – Prepares a variety of meats, seafood, poultry, vegetables, and other food items for cooking in broilers, ovens, grills, fryers, and a variety of other kitchen equipment.
- Ownership – Assumes 100% responsibility for quality of products served.
- Compliance – Knows and complies consistently with standard portion sizes, cooking methods, quality standards and kitchen rules, policies, and procedures.
- Inventory – Stocks and maintains sufficient levels of food products at line stations to assure a smooth service period.
- Planning – Portion food products prior to cooking according to standard portion sizes and recipe specifications.
- Organization & Tidiness – Maintains a clean and sanitary workstation area including tables, shelves, grills, broilers, fryers, pasta cookers, sauté burners, convection oven, flat top range and refrigeration equipment.
- Technique – Prepares item for broiling, grilling, frying, sautéing or other cooking methods by portioning, battering, breading, seasoning and/or marinating.
- Standards – Follows proper plate presentation and garnish set up for all dishes.
- Team – Assists in food prep assignments during off-peak periods as needed. Assists in the receiving of products and stock/replenish items correctly as needed.
- Documentation – Record temperature of food items, equipment, and storage products on appropriate logs.
- Protocol – Closes the kitchen properly and follows the closing checklist for kitchen stations. Assists others in closing the kitchen.
- Team – Attends all scheduled employee meetings and brings suggestions for improvement.
- Flexibility – Performs other related duties as assigned by the Kitchen Manager or manager-on-duty.
Skills and Qualifications:
- Education – Culinary studies preferred.
- Experience – A minimum of 3 years of experience in a full-service restaurant.
- Communication – Verbal and written communication is essential, able to read, speak and understand the English language to read kitchen tickets, recipes, safety and OSHA compliance and training, etc.
- Ability to remember, recite and promote the variety of menu items.
- Team – Good teamwork approach to daily tasks
Career Advantages
- Advance – Opportunities for advancement including multi-unit responsibilities
- Health – Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Protection – Life, long term disability, and short-term disability insurance
- Retirement – 401(k) retirement plan
- Dine with Us – Free Meals
- Opportunities – Transfer opportunities in the US and world-wide
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the associate is regularly required to: stand for long periods of time, use hands and fingers, and be able to handle, feel, communicate verbally, and hear.
The associate is frequently required to reach with hands and arms, climb, balance, taste, and smell. The associate is also occasionally required to walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and either lift or move up to 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to focus. Be able to work in a standing position for long periods of time (up to 8 hours).
About Us
Areas boasts a portfolio of 150 top and trendy brands designed to cater to the tastes of all travelers whether they are looking to catch a quick coffee between flights, enjoy a relaxing moment with the family or have access to connected services during a long trip.
