Prep Cook - No Nights or Weekends! - NexDine

Here at NEXDINE, we make diversity our advantage. From the workforce we support, the clientele we service, to the food we create, diversity is our secret sauce!

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Job Details

Position: Full-Time Prep Cook

Location: Fort Washington, PA

Schedule: Monday through Friday - NO nights or Weekends!

Hours: 6:30 AM – 2:30 PM

Benefits: YES!

We provide our full-time team members a generous compensation and benefits package, training, opportunity, and support. We provide resources, rewards, and incentives to our valued employees.

• Health, dental and vision insurance
• Company-paid life insurance
• Many supplemental insurances
• 401(k) savings plan
• Paid vacation, holiday and sick time
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Plus various perks!

Salad/Prep Cook Job Description:

The Salad/Prep Cook is responsible for assisting the Chef Manager with daily tasks, station set up and utility responsibilities. Facilitates set-up from Back of the House to Front of the House and ensures a clean working environment and dining area for our customers.

The Salad/Prep Cook will serve as the first impression for our customers that visit our cafe. This is a hands-on role that requires accurate speed, efficiency and excellent customer service.

Salad/Prep Cook Responsibilities:

• Clean and sanitize work areas, equipment, utensils, dishes, or silverware.
• Wash, peel, and cut various foods, such as fruits and vegetables, to prepare for cooking or serving.
• Mix ingredients for green salads, molded fruit salads, vegetable salads, and pasta salads.
• May monitor, cook and prepare foods to determine if they have been cooked sufficiently, using methods such as tasting, smelling, or utilization of food thermometers.
• May bake, roast, broil, and steam meats, fish, vegetables, and other foods.
• May season, weigh, measure, and mix ingredients according to recipes with guidance from supervisor, using various kitchen utensils and equipment.
• Assist with stocking stations with all items necessary for service.
• Carry food supplies, equipment, and utensils to and from storage and work areas.
• Remove trash and clean kitchen garbage containers.
• Assist cooks and kitchen staff with various tasks as needed and provide cooks with needed items.
• Inform management when equipment is not working properly and when food and supplies are getting low, and order needed items.
• Maintain clean dining area.
• Wash pots, pans, dishes, utensils, or other cooking equipment.
• Adhere to and promote company standards for safety, proper food handling practices, sanitation, uniform guidelines, and productivity.
• May assist in supporting culinary staff at numerous stations as directed.
• Provide excellent customer service to include being attentive, approachable, greeting and thanking customers.
• May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Salad/Prep Cook Requirements:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Previous experience in food service
• Previous customer service experience

Must be dependable, neat, clean, professional and have excellent customer service skills - THIS IS A FRONT OF THE HOUSE POSITION

Pay Frequency:

• Weekly - Direct Deposit

Who We Are:

We're NEXDINE, a fast-growing specialty dining service provider, we're the "Fresh Idea People". We offer excellent working conditions, empower creativity, cool technology and of course, great food.

We hire and keep great people! We work as a team and everyone contributes to the success of our business. We want our employees to get excited about making great food while keeping our customers satisfied and coming back for more! We want you to continue to learn new things and also teach others what you know so you too can grow! We empower our people to make the choices that ensure every NEXDINE customer is satisfied with our services. We all work hard, love what we do and have fun too!

NEXDINE is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other classification protected by law. NEXDINE participates in E-Verify.