Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

The Cook I will accurately and efficiently prepare, portion, cook, and present a variety of hot and/or cold food items for various meal periods: to include Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Special/Catered Events. The general responsibilities of the position include those listed below, but City of Hope may identify other responsibilities of the position.

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Prepares and cooks ‘to order’ foods that may require short preparation time.
  • May prepare food and serve customers at an a la carte and may operate a grill station.
  • Prepares food in accordance with current applicable federal, state and City of Hope standards, guidelines and regulations to ensure high-quality food service is provided.
  • Reads food order or receives verbal instructions on food required by patron and prepares and cooks food according to instructions.
• May prepare meals for customers requiring special diets.
• Provides excellent customer service at all times.
• Follows basic recipes and/or product directions for preparing, seasoning, cooking, tasting, carving and serving soups, meats, vegetables, desserts and other foodstuffs for consumption in eating establishments.
• Prepares foods under direct supervision or instruction by operating a variety of kitchen equipment to measure and mix ingredients, washing, peeling, cutting and shredding fruits and vegetables, and trimming and cutting meat, poultry or fish for culinary use.
• May produce some batch goods using basic cooking techniques.
• Tastes products, reads menus, estimates food requirements, checks production, and keeps records to accurately plan production requirements and requisition supplies and equipment.
• May clean and sanitize work stations and equipment and must follow all City of Hope and regulatory rules and procedures.
• Attends all allergy and foodborne illness in-service training. Participates in regular safety meetings, safety training and hazard assessments. Attends training programs (classroom and virtual) as designated.
• May receive inventory and move/lift foodstuffs and supplies.
• Complies with all company safety and risk management policies and procedures and reports all accidents and injuries in a timely manner.

Your qualifications should include:

Minimum Education:

• High School diploma, GED or equivalent experience.

Minimum Experience:

• 0 to 2 years of related work experience.

Preferred:

• Food Handler Card

Additional information:

• Monday through Friday 7:00AM-3:30PM

City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.

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