What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cook - (Full-time/Rotating Shifts) position at Humboldt Park Health?
Position Highlights:
The Cook prepares food for the café and patients by following a recipe, ensures the food is cooked to proper temperature and helps with any catering as necessary
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Prepares food and serves hospital patrons and patients.
- Takes and completes orders from customers and cooks foods requiring short preparation time, according to customer/patient requirements.
- Provides the highest quality of service to customers at all times.
- Follows recipes and/or product directions for preparing, seasoning, cooking, tasting, carving and serving soups, meats, vegetables, desserts and other foodstuffs for consumption in eating establishments.
- Operates a variety of kitchen equipment to measure and mix ingredients, wash, peel, cut and shred fruits and vegetables, and trimming and cutting meat, poultry or fish for culinary use.
- Tastes products, reads menus, estimates food requirements, checks production, and keeps records in order to accurately plan production requirements and requisition supplies and equipment.
- Selects recipes per menu cycle, prepares bakery items, receives inventory, moves and lifts foodstuffs and supplies, and prepares meals for customers requiring special diets.
- Cleans and sanitizes workstations and equipment, as necessary.
- Follows client and regulatory rules and procedures
Qualifications:
- High School/GED
- Previous experience is high desirable
