Culinary Specialist

4 weeks ago


Washington, Washington, D.C., United States Crescent Hotels and Resorts Full time
Job Overview:
As a Line Cook at Crescent Hotels and Resorts, you will play a vital role in delivering exceptional dining experiences to our guests. Your primary responsibility will be to prepare food items in accordance with production requirements and quality standards, while maintaining a safe and sanitary work environment.

Key Responsibilities:
1. Prepare food of consistent quality following recipe cards and production and portion standards, per check from servers.
2. Start food items that are prepared ahead of time, ensuring not to over prepare estimated needs.
3. Date all food containers and rotate as per Crescent standards, ensuring that all perishables are kept at proper temperatures.
4. Check pars for shift use, determine necessary preparation, freezer pull, and line set up. Note any out-of-stock items or possible shortages. Assist in keeping buffet stocked.
5. Return all food items not used on next shift to designated storage areas, ensuring to cover and date all perishables.
6. Assist in setting up plans and actions to correct any food cost problems, control food waste, loss, and usage per Crescent standards.
7. Operate, maintain, and properly clean deep fryer, broiler, stove, steamer, food processor, mixer, slicer, oven, steam table, tilt kettle, waffle iron, and flat top grill.

Requirements:
1. Ability to communicate in English.
2. Self-starting personality with an even disposition.
3. Maintain a professional appearance and manner at all times.
4. Ability to communicate well with guests.
5. Willingness to "pitch-in" and help co-workers with their job duties and be a team player.
6. Finger/hand dexterity in order to operate food machinery.
7. Ability to grasp, lift, and/or carry, or otherwise, move goods weighing a maximum of 100 lbs. on a continuous schedule.

Performance Standards:

Customer Satisfaction:
Our customers are what we are about. One of the keys to a positive guest experience is positive interaction with Crescent staff. It is essential that you remain professional at all times, and that you treat all guests and associates with courtesy and respect, under all circumstances. Every Crescent associate is a guest relations ambassador, every working minute of every day.

Work Habits:
In order to maintain a positive guest and associate experience, your work habits should always meet and strive to exceed hotel standards for work procedures, dress, grooming, punctuality, and attendance. You should be adaptable to change in your work area and in hotel procedures with a willingness to learn new skills and/or improve existing ones, have the ability to solve routine problems that occur on the job, and ask for help whenever you are not sure how to do something.

Safety & Security:
The safety and security of our guests and associates is of utmost importance to Crescent. Every Crescent associate should adhere to the hotel security policies and procedures, particularly regarding key controls, lifting heavy objects, using chemicals, and effectively reporting safety hazards and safety concerns.
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