To prepare, cook, season, portion food and serve high-quality meals for the customers, maintain taste, nutrition and hygiene as high priorities.
Job Duties:
- Setting up workstations and operating kitchen equipment.
- Measuring and weighing ingredients.
- Following recipes and set menus.
- Presenting and garnishing dishes.
- Adhering to kitchen hygiene and safety standards and maintaining superior level of product standards and high standards for food preparation, cleanliness and punctuality at all times.
- Maintaining a clean workspace at all times.
- Monitoring stock levels.
- Keeping up with cooking techniques and methods.
- Preparing, cooking and portioning a variety of dishes as the requirements.
- Carving and trimming foods to ready them for different dishes .
- Examining foodstuffs to ensure quality.
- Regulating temperatures of ovens, grills and other cooking equipment.
- seasoning, garnishing and cooking food as per the standard recipes.
- preparing food to meet special dietary requirements.
- Minimising food wastage.
- Planning of new menu items as per the seasonal produce.
- Ability to train other kitchen staff on different cooking techniques and cooking procedures and outline the company policies and standards.
- Preparation, replenishment and rotation of stock in the kitchen and storing food in temperature-controlled facilities.