Deli Cook

**Deli Cook**

**Location:** Shreveport, LA ****Job Summary****

Prepares hot and cold deli food, as well as catering and delivery orders. Promotes customer service by taking and filling customer order requests and maintaining attractive product presentation.

****Essential Duties and Responsibilities****

* Prepares hot and cold deli food such as breakfast foods, hot foods, steam table foods, rotisserie chicken, and fried chicken.

* Fills catering orders and ensures portion control.

* Ensures food handling and food safety procedures are adhered to. Stocks, rotates, and monitors product temperatures before and after cooking.

* Makes judgements about flavor, taste, aroma, colors, texture, or smoothness of products in order to inspect products for satisfactory production quality.

* Maintains attractive product presentation by arranging items for display.

* Provides friendly and customer-service-oriented attitude by greeting customers, answering questions and taking orders by phone and in person.

* Promotes product sales through use of suggestive selling initiatives and product arrangement.

* Maintains clean, safe and sanitary working and shopping environment by adhering to Company safety procedures.

****Knowledge, Skills and Abilities****

* Ability to read and operate digital equipment, meters, dials, and/or calibrated scales.

* Ability to safely operate hazardous tools and equipment such as a slicer, deep fryer, etc.

* Ability to learn new systems, methods, or processes.

* Ability to use non-precision and precision hand tools.

* Ability to work well with fellow partners and promote a team environment.

* Ability to effectively communicate with customers and partners in written and verbal form.

* Ability to work flexible schedules including nights, weekends and holidays.

****Education, Experience, and Qualifications****

* Minimum of 18 years of age required.

* Six months related work experience required.

* Food Handler certification required.

* Continuously required to use close vision, distance vision, depth perception or the ability to focus.

* Continuously required to stand or walk.

* Continuously required to use hands for reaching, touching or handling.

* Continuously required to talk and hear.

* Frequently required to use fine finger movements or strenuous finger or hand movements.

* Frequently required to push, pull, maneuver or lift objects up to 40 lbs.

* Occasionally required to push, pull, maneuver or lift objects up to 75 lbs.

* Occasionally required to bend, kneel, squat, or stoop.

* Attendance at work is required.