Recreation/Cafe Team

The Cook is responsible for planning, preparing and cooking food items to ensure the highest quality service and />experience for our guests. The Cook ensures proper food handling, sanitation and food storage procedures while />keeping the kitchen organized and running efficiently. Cooks follow recipes and make adjustments based on />customer requests, communicate with wait staff and prepare dishes to make an attractive presentation for each meal. />Essential Duties and Responsibilities: />• Ensures that outlets are sanitized, cleaned, stocked, and setup correctly at start of and throughout the shift while />adhering to sanitation, safety, and food and beverage control policies. />• Ensure ingredients and final products are fresh. />• Assist with creation of menu items. />• Operate kitchen equipment such as broilers, ovens, fryers, and grills. />• Assist supervisor in monthly food and beverage inventories and reconciliations. />• Responsible for understanding and operating the POS system. />• Obtain certifications to meet state and local government regulations. />• Maintain high standards of professionalism, customer service, quality and cleanliness. />• Be familiar with fire extinguisher locations and know how to operate them in the restaurant/kitchen. />• Ensures safe handling of chemicals in accordance with department standards and utilizes proper personal />protective equipment (PPE) when appropriate. />• Occasionally serve food. />Non-Essential Duties and Responsibilities: />• This job description is not intended to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or />responsibilities. Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or />without notice. />Required Education and Experience: />• Conversant in the English language />• Strong decision-making ability />• Excellent communication, collaboration, and delegation skills with ability to manage confrontation />• Ability to motivate, lead and develop a team />• Strong working knowledge of operational procedures />• Comfortable in a fast-paced and high-pressure environment. />• Motivated, goal oriented and results driven />• Ability to maintain confidentiality />Food and Beverage Cook />8/1/2025 />1 />Kampgrounds of America Job Description />• Able to work nights, weekends, and holidays />Preferred Education and Experience: />Physical Demands and Working Conditions: />• Work is performed primarily indoors. />• Must be able to lift and carry up to 25 pounds regularly, lift or move up to 50 pounds occasionally with />assistance. />• Ability to bend, stoop, kneel, crouch, climb, push, pull, reach overhead. />• Use of repetitive motion, standing, bending, sitting, lifting, and walking, carrying trays. />• Significant standing and walking for entire shifts />• Fast-paced, noisy, and sometimes crowded, often with exposure to extreme temperatures (kitchen heat or freezer />cold). />• Risk of burns from hot equipment, cuts from knives, and slips on wet or greasy floors; requires wearing PPE />(slip-resistant shoes, gloves, masks) />• Ability to work in spaces where common allergens may be handled or present />• Will experience occasional interruptions and shifting priorities. />• Valid driver’s license required, this position may be expected to drive a motorized vehicle which requires close />and distance vision, sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, etc.