Job description

Essential Job Functions:

Pastry Cook:

• Measures and mixes ingredients according to standard recipes

• Mixes ingredients using electric mixer, or beats and stirs ingredients by hand

• Shapes dough for cookies, pies, and fancy pastries

• Places shaped dough portions in greased or floured pans and inserts them in oven

• Prepares and cooks ingredients for pie fillings, puddings, custards, or other desserts

• Mixes ingredients to make icings

• Decorates cakes, pastries and other creative desserts

• Scoops and serves gelato, sorbet and other desserts

All Cooks, Including Pastry Cook:

• Maintains a high degree of sanitation in work station

• Keeps food area free of debris and trash at all times

• Reports to work on time

• Communicates with Sous Chef when there are product shortages

• Breaks down and stores daily food and supply deliveries

• Assists in monitoring products in the freezer, walk-ins, and storerooms to ensure freshness and availability

• Ensures proper FIFO procedures are followed when storing daily deliveries

• Monitors food items, checks food temperatures, and changes food items when necessary

• Assists in quality control of prepared food items

• Ensures thorough communication between shifts

• Remains up to date on all Departmental Policies and Procedures

• Prepares and executes recipes and daily production sheets per standardized recipe cards or supervisor guidelines

• Complies with all departmental rules, side work assignments, and departmental procedures

• Ensures that all guests are treated in a prompt, professional and courteous manner

• Gives excellent internal and/or external guest service and proactively seeks ways to improve service

• Performs all other duties as assigned

Job Requirements:

Pastry Cook:

• Must possess basic knife skills

• Knowledge in measuring and weight conversion for recipes

• All Cooks, Including Pastry Cook:

• Illinois Food Handler Certification required

• Must possess outstanding interpersonal communication skills to effectively interface with guests and team members

• Must possess the ability to work under pressure and with a sense of urgency

• Must possess a cooperative, helpful and friendly nature, and present a neat, clean, well-groomed appearance

• Ability to work flexible shifts and days of the week including holidays. Understands that schedules may change

• Frequent walking, sitting, standing, bending, twisting, lifting, and kneeling

• Finishes job duties in a timely fashion according to department time standards

• Ability to work within the following conditions: wet floors, temperature extremes, and loud noise

• The Team Member must frequently lift and or move up to 25 pounds

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $21.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Holidays
• Overnight shift
• Weekend availability

Work Location: In person

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