Course Advisor is hiring: Restaurant Cook in Washington

Restaurant Cook Job Description 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.

Life As a Restaurant Cook

• Ensure food is stored and cooked at correct temperature by regulating temperature of ovens, broilers, grills, and roasters.
• Portion, arrange, and garnish food, and serve food to waiters or patrons.
• Bake breads, rolls, cakes, and pastries.
• Carve and trim meats such as beef, veal, ham, pork, and lamb for hot or cold service, or for sandwiches.
• Butcher and dress animals, fowl, or shellfish, or cut and bone meat prior to cooking.
• Observe and test foods to determine if they have been cooked sufficiently, using methods such as tasting, smelling, or piercing them with utensils.

Important Skills for Restaurant Cooks

Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.

Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.

Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.

Time Management: Managing one’s own time and the time of others.

Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others’ actions.

Types of Restaurant Cook Jobs

• Fry Cook
• Back Line Cook
• Lead Cook
• Station Cook

Becoming a Restaurant Cook

Learn what Restaurant Cook education requirements there are.

Where Restaurant Cooks Are Employed

The table below shows some of the most common industries where those employed in this career field work.

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