Prep Cook / Cook - Muscle Maker Grill

Muscle Maker Grill - America's fastest growing healthy lifestyle brand is seeking prep cooks and cooks at our Bronx Throggsneck) locations! If you have experience on a cook's line, have the energy and enthusiasm to grow with us, please apply with your resume for immediate employment!

We're looking for people who take pride in their job and enjoy what they do. We look forward to meeting with you! 

Roles and Responsibilities

Ensure ingredients and final products are fresh 

Follow recipes, including measuring, weighing, and mixing ingredients 

Bake, grill, steam and boil meats, vegetables, fish, poultry, and other foods 

Present, garnish and arrange final dishes 

Prep vegetables, meats, salads

Maintain a clean and safe work area, including handling utensils, equipment, and dishes 

Handle and store ingredients and food 

Maintain food safety and sanitation standards 

Clean and sanitize work areas, equipment, and utensils 

Execute opening and closing procedures 

Set up workstations with required ingredients and equipment 

Check the quality and freshness of ingredients 

Monitor station inventory levels 

Accommodate guests’ special requests 

Operate kitchen equipment such as broilers, ovens, grills and fryers  

Qualifications

Knowledge of safety procedures, including safe temperatures at which ingredients must be kept and to which food must be prepared to avoid foodborne illness 

Ability to work as part of a team, collaborating on complex dishes 

Interpersonal skills to interact with a variety of other people, such as waitstaff, dishwashers, management and sometimes customers 

Calm demeanor to work in a high-stress, fast-paced environment 

Accountability for the dishes they prepare measuring up to the expectations of management and customers alike 

Comprehension and organization to follow direct orders and recipes and to correctly prepare dishes to the standards of the restaurant 

Manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination to handle tools, such as knife techniques for chopping, slicing, cutting and dicing 

Ability to stand in one place for hours at a time