Cooks, Restaurant

What Does a Cooks, Restaurant Do?

Prepare, season, and cook dishes such as soups, meats, vegetables, or desserts in restaurants. May order supplies, keep records and accounts, price items on menu, or plan menu.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• 1Ensure food is stored and cooked at correct temperature by regulating temperature of ovens, broilers, grills, and roasters.
• 2Inspect and clean food preparation areas, such as equipment, work surfaces, and serving areas, to ensure safe and sanitary food-handling practices.
• 3Portion, arrange, and garnish food, and serve food to waiters or patrons.
• 4Ensure freshness of food and ingredients by checking for quality, keeping track of old and new items, and rotating stock.
• 5Season and cook food according to recipes or personal judgment and experience.
• 6Coordinate and supervise work of kitchen staff.
• 7Bake, roast, broil, and steam meats, fish, vegetables, and other foods.
• 8Weigh, measure, and mix ingredients according to recipes or personal judgment, using various kitchen utensils and equipment.

Required Skills

• Facebook
• Food safety labeling systems
• Menu planning software
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Office software
• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft Word
• Point of sale POS restaurant software
• Recipe cost control software

Cooks, Restaurant Salary