Cook-CB

Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. offers a world-class salary and benefits package designed to reward extra effort and encourage professional development. We also provide one-to-one mentoring, ongoing skills training and outstanding opportunities for advancement. Consider our commitments to quality, growth and employees. We think you'll find us to be a company worthy of your talents.

The Cook will be responsible for preparing food, including hot entrees and sauces to specifications in an accurate and timely manner to provide guests with a quality product.

Essential daily duties:
Provides safe and wholesome food to our guests.
Maintains a sanitary and organized work area.
Demonstrates proper care, storage, use and cleaning of all tools and equipment.
Demonstrates competent product knowledge by correct storing and handling of all perishables, maintaining quality, security, value and integrity.
Prepares food products according to standard recipes and specifications and demonstrates positive responses to training by chefs.
Effectively communicates with other team members, including service and kitchen maintenance personnel.
Portions, prepares and presents meats, poultry and fish entrees; pastas, vegetables, pan sauces and butter sauces.

Food Handlers Card Required

The ideal candidate for the position of Cook will possess the following qualifications:
Specialized training as a broiler cook is strongly prefered
Ability to understand and respond to written order, recipes and directs in English
Ability to correctly lift and transport objects weighing up to 50 lbs.
Ability to work a minimum of 8 hours with appropriate mobility and endurance
Ability to work flexible time periods as required of a cook in a resort environment
Ability to recognize different cooking oils and their cooking temperatures
Ability to use knives, other hand-held instruments and other food preparation equipment
Must have a sense of urgency to serve customers properly
Ability to perform all duties of a Cook’s Helper/Pantry Person and Cook 1
Ability to work unsupervised
Ability to coach other cooks in a team environment
Ability to portion, prepare and present meat, poultry and fish entrees; pastas, vegetables, pan sauces and butter sauces
Knowledge of the “mother sauces” (espagnole, veloute, béchamel, and tomato) and butter sauces and clear, thick and regional soups with appropriate garnishment
Additional skills required theme, cuisine or cooking style of the assigned kitchen or restaurant

This list of essential functions, other duties, mental and physical demands, requirements and licenses is not meant to be exhaustive. Management reserves the right to revise job descriptions and to require other tasks be performed when the circumstances of the job change.

Stick with Harrah's and you can go places. Just climb aboard the most progressive career building system in the industry and hold on as Harrah's Entertainment helps you get where you want to be. With programs such as quarterly bonuses, referral bonuses, tuition reimbursement, 401-k w/employer match, company-wide internal transfer opportunities, you'll have every opportunity to turn your job at Harrah's into something more.

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