Cooks, Restaurant - MehtA+ Tutoring

Career Overview

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.

Also Known As

Cook
Grill Cook
Line Cook
Prep Cook (Preparation Cook)

Alternate Job Titles

Back Line Cook
Back of House Team Member (BOH Team Member)
Banquet Cook
Breakfast Cook
Broiler Cook
Chef De Partie
Cook
Foreign Food Specialty Cook
Fry Cook
Grill Cook
Hotel and Restaurant Cook
Larder Cook
Line Cook
Pizza Maker
Prep Cook (Preparation Cook)

What You'll Do

In this role, your typical responsibilities include:

Ensure food is stored and cooked at correct temperature by regulating temperature of ovens, broilers, grills, and roasters.
Inspect and clean food preparation areas, such as equipment, work surfaces, and serving areas, to ensure safe and sanitary food-handling practices.
Portion, arrange, and garnish food, and serve food to waiters or patrons.
Ensure freshness of food and ingredients by checking for quality, keeping track of old and new items, and rotating stock.
Season and cook food according to recipes or personal judgment and experience.
Coordinate and supervise work of kitchen staff.
Bake, roast, broil, and steam meats, fish, vegetables, and other foods.

Key Abilities

This career requires key abilities in:

Near Vision
Manual Dexterity
Problem Sensitivity
Oral Comprehension
Perceptual Speed
Speech Recognition
Visual Color Discrimination
Trunk Strength
Control Precision
Finger Dexterity

Work Style

People who excel in this career typically demonstrate:

Dependability
Attention to Detail
Cooperation
Stress Tolerance
Perseverance

What Matters in This Career

This career tends to satisfy these work values:

Support
Relationships
Independence
Achievement
Working Conditions

Education & Preparation

Typical Education: High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED)

On-the-Job Training: Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month

Education Details: Usually requires a high school diploma or GED, though some occupations may not.

Experience Required: Some occupations may need little or no previous experience; others require several months to a year of experience. For example, landscaping and groundskeeping workers might require very little training or previous experience, while agricultural equipment operators can benefit from on-the job training.

Technology You'll Use

Popular Technologies & Software

Facebook
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Office software
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Word

Tools & Equipment

Blenders
Boning knives
Charbroilers
Chefs' knives
Cimeter knives
Commercial microwave ovens
Convection ovens
Conveyor ovens
Filet knives
Food slicing machines
Food steamers
Fryers
Gas grills
Griddles
Grinders

Work Environment

Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets
Spend Time Standing
Indoors, Environmentally Controlled
Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls
Contact With Others

Salary & Job Market

Salary Percentile	Annual Wage
Entry-Level (10th percentile)	$28,010
Median	$36,830
Top Earners (90th percentile)	$47,340

Workers Employed Nationally: 1,452,130