Pizza Chef

2 weeks ago


Watertown, United States Echo Craft Kitchen Full time

**Pizza Maker Responsibilities**
- Set up and stocking stations with all necessary supplies
- Prepare food for service (e.g. chopping vegetables, butchering meat, or preparing sauces)
- Cook menu items in cooperation with the rest of the kitchen staff
- Answer, report and follow executive or sous chef’s instructions
- Clean up station and take care of leftover food
- Stock inventory appropriately
- Ensure that food comes out simultaneously, in high quality and in a timely fashion
- Comply with nutrition and sanitation regulations and safety standards
- Maintain a positive and professional approach with coworkers and customers
- Hand toss dough
- Make dough
- Top pizzas
- Cut Pizzas
- Work oven

**Pizza Maker Skills**
- Proven cooking experience, including experience as a line chef, restaurant cook or prep cook
- Excellent understanding of various cooking methods, ingredients, equipment and procedures
- Accuracy and speed in executing assigned tasks
- Familiar with industry’s best practices
- Culinary school diploma
- Experienced with thin crust pizza

**REQUIREMENTS**:

- proven experience as a thin crust pizza maker
- able to hand toss dough and cook pizza in oven
- able to make dough according to recipe

Echo Craft Kitchen, convenient to Northwestern Connecticut, is a gastronomic refuge that offers elevated versions of classic comfort foods in a casual rustic setting.