Job Description

Position: Chef

Specific Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Continually liaise with Restaurant Front-house staff to meet guests’ requests.
• Estimate food requirements and estimate food costs.
• Prepare and cook meals and individual dishes, including ethnic cuisine or specialty dishes
• Memorize and follow recipes, policies, procedures, portion control, presentation specifications.
• Maintaining freshness of product and rotating old product out.
• Working with a team of Cooks to handle varying levels of activity
• Efficiently resolving problems with customers’ orders.
• Ensuring that food health and safety regulations are followed.
• Follow recipes, portion controls, presentation specifications.
• Help the Restaurant Supervisor/Manager for inventory estimation.
• Prepare and Cook food within the time as per the order and ensure taste of the food is maintained.
• Control wastage and try to keep the food cost low.
• Co-ordinate with other cooks and kitchen helpers.
• May need to open and/or close the restaurant from time to time.
• Ensure that hygiene and kitchen safety procedures are followed.
• Make everything ready before the actual cooking starts.
• Maintain inventory and records of food, supplies and equipment
• Storing excess food at the correct temperature to avoid spoilage.
• Ensuring that food portions and food presentation meet company standards.
• Ensuring that cooking utensils are clean before each use.
• Cleaning and sterilizing food preparation areas.
• Efficiently resolving problems with customers’ orders.
• Ensuring that food health and safety regulations are followed.
• Efficiently resolving problems with customers’ orders.
• Train new or existing kitchen staff in the menu and cooking procedures.

Experience / Qualifications / other requirements: 

• Completion of some secondary education or equivalent experience is required.
• 5+ years of relevant work experience.
• Flexibility to work overtime is required.
• Knowledge of English is essential.

Location of work: 

425 University Ave E, Unit F, Waterloo ON N2K 4C9, Canada

Salary

$37.00 per hour.

Job Type:

Full-time permanent.

How to apply:

Please email resume at: ob.waterloo@gmail.com

No phone call please. Due to higher volume, only qualified candidates will be contacted.