Chef

About the role

Chef position for a Café in Essendon North, VIC, working shift hours based on a 38-hour week between Monday to Sunday. The role involves preparing and cooking food to café standards, ensuring high quality presentation, and maintaining kitchen operations.

Key responsibilities

• Demonstrate initiative with a strong focus on detail and delivering high quality presentation of all food to excellent standard before serving to customers
• Ensure that food portions and presentation meet café standards
• Work in a fast pace, team-orientated environment and implement proper communication with fellow co-workers
• Provide consistency of quality work performance
• Ensure that food orders are completed in a timely manner and efficiently resolve problems with customers' orders
• Set up workstations with all needed ingredients and cooking equipment
• Ensure all food preparation based on all café menu items are ready for next day trading
• Prepare ingredients to use in cooking (chopping & peeling vegetables, etc.)
• Cook food in various utensils or grillers, cooking equipment such as slicers, knives, ovens, grills, etc.
• Keep a sanitized and orderly environment in the kitchen, ensuring the kitchen is left clean and hygienically complying with food health and safety regulations for next day trading, including sweeping and mopping of floors, disposing rubbish in allocated bins, and cleaning and putting away stove top, grill, oven and all other cooking equipment

About you

• Proven experience as chef
• Experience in using cutting tools, cookware and bakeware
• Knowledge of various cooking procedures and methods (grilling, baking, boiling etc.)
• Ability to follow all sanitation procedures
• Ability to work in a team
• Very good communication skills
• Excellent physical condition and stamina
• Monitor all kitchen supplies and provide stock requirements to the café owner
• Ensure all food and other items are stored properly
• Check quality of ingredients and monitor stock to ensure there are no shortages