Key tasks and responsibilities:

•             Planning menus, creating new dishes

•             Discussing food preparation issues with Director, manager and staff

•             Ordering supplies and checking products to ensure the standards are met, handling and maintaining all products properly

•             Ensuring all food items are stored at the right temperature and all food is used by date, may freeze and preserve food in order to ensure food quality

•             Ensuring enough stock is kept for daily operation through carrying out a stocktake

•             Cooking food to menu specifications in quality and quantity by using appropriate cooking techniques

•             Monitoring quality of dishes at all stages of preparation and presentation with a high standard quality.

•             Proper plate presentation and garnish set up for all dishes, determining how food should be presented

•             Overseeing kitchen work progress, and ensuring implementation of health and safety procedures in the kitchen

•             Ensuring all equipment and kitchen environments are operational and meeting standards

•             Investigating customer complaints

•             Controlling kitchen cost and expenses, estimating materials or labour requirements, maintaining/raising the food’s profit margins for the restaurant

•             Maintaining work records when necessary

•             Monitoring kitchen operation and providing solutions or decisions when necessary

•             Ensuring cleaning and hygiene of the kitchen facility is at a high standard by preparing cleaning schedules for fellow kitchen staff and inspecting all areas after cleaning.

•             Planning, managing and monitoring the functions and events when required

•             Involve in recruitment for kitchen staff by carrying out CV selection, interviews and providing staff training

•             Any other duties the employer reasonably may require employee to perform

 

Pay rate: minimum $25.00/ hour     maximum $32.00/ hour

Guaranteed hours of work per week:  Minimum 30 hours, full time

 

Requirements for the job:

  • At least 2 years of relevant work experience
  • Be physically fit
  • Full time availability, always available on weekends
  • Able to work across a 7 days roster
  • Have a can-do attitude and good work ethic
  • Have good time management skills, be well organized and capable of multitasking
  • Be able to work effectively in a team as well as individually
  • No criminal record
  • Candidates need to be NZ citizens/residents
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