Job Description
Job Description
Job Description
About This Role
Prepare and cook large quantities of food for institutions, such as schools, hospitals, or cafeterias.
What You'll Do - Clean and inspect kitchen equipment, kitchen appliances, and work areas to ensure cleanliness and functional operation.
- Apportion and serve food to facility residents, employees, or patrons.
- Cook foodstuffs according to menus, special dietary or nutritional restrictions, or numbers of portions to be served.
- Clean, cut, and cook meat, fish, or poultry.
- Monitor use of government food commodities to ensure that proper procedures are followed.
- Wash pots, pans, dishes, utensils, or other cooking equipment.
- Compile and maintain records of food use and expenditures.
- Direct activities of one or more workers who assist in preparing and serving meals.
- Take inventory of supplies and equipment.
- Monitor menus and spending to ensure that meals are prepared economically.
- Plan menus that are varied, nutritionally balanced, and appetizing, taking advantage of foods in season and local availability.
- Requisition food supplies, kitchen equipment, and appliances, based on estimates of future needs.
- Determine meal prices, based on calculations of ingredient prices.
Requirements - Inspect facilities, equipment or supplies to ensure conformance to standards.
- CACFP Program Requirements
- Clean food preparation areas, facilities, or equipment.
- Serve food or beverages.
- Cook foods.
- Cut cooked or raw foods.
- Prepare foods for cooking or serving.
- Monitor food services operations to ensure procedures are followed.
- Clean tableware.
- Record operational or production data.
- Coordinate activities of food service staff.
- Train food preparation or food service personnel.
- Maintain food, beverage, or equipment inventories.
- Monitor food services operations to ensure procedures are followed.
- Plan menu options.
- Order materials, supplies, or equipment.
- Determine prices for menu items.
Nice To Haves - Data entry software
- Microsoft Excel
- Apple corers
- Blast chillers
- Blenders
- Box graters
- Braziers
- Bread slicers
- Broilers
- Chefs' knives
- Commercial coffee grinders
- Commercial coffeemakers
- Commercial dishwashers
- Commercial ice cream machines
- Commercial kitchen convection ovens
- Commercial kitchen steamers
- Commercial microwave ovens
- Commercial stand mixers
- Commercial use combination ovens
- Convection ovens
- Conveyor ovens
- Cream whippers
- Desktop computers
- Disposal units
- Double boilers
- Electric deep-fat fryers
- Electric stoves
- Fire suppression blankets
- Food dicers
- Food processors
- Food shredders
- Food slicers
- Garbage compactors
- Griddles
- Grills
- Ice shaving or crushing equipment
- Ice-making machines
- Juice dispensers
- Juice extractors
- Kitchen fire extinguishers
- Kitchen shears
- Kitchen tongs
- Knife sharpeners
- Mandolines
- Meat thermometers
- Microsoft Word
- Mixers
- Oyster knives
- Paring knives
- Parisian cutters
- Pasta machines
- PCS Revenue Control Systems FASTRAK School Meal Software
- Personal computers
- Pizza ovens
- Portion scales
- Pressurized steam cookers
- Refrigerator thermometers
- Rice cookers
- Rotisserie ovens
- Salamanders
- Serrated blade knives
- Sieves
- Sifters
- Spreadsheet software
- Steam kettles
- Steam tables
- Strainers
- Tilt skillets
- Toasters
- Touch screen monitors
- Waffle makers
- Woks
- Word processing software
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