Cook – Mesa Grill (CLV)

Caesars Entertainment is the world’s most geographically diversified casino-entertainment company. Since its beginning in Reno, Nevada, more than 75 years ago, Caesars has grown into a family of affiliated resort casinos on four continents. Caesars-affiliated casino resorts operate primarily under the Harrah’s®, Caesars® and Horseshoe® brand names.  Affiliates of Caesars also own the World Series of Poker® and the London Clubs International family of casinos.  The Caesars Entertainment family’s success is a result of an unblinking focus of building loyalty and value with guests through a unique combination of great service, excellent products, unsurpassed distribution, operational excellence and technology leadership. Caesars and its affiliates are committed to environmental sustainability and energy conservation and recognize the importance of being a responsible steward of the environment.

Team members of the Caesars family of resort casinos are driven by our Mission, Vision, and Values.  We take great pride in living our values Integrity, Service with Passion, Celebrating Success, Diversity, Caring Culture, and Ownership every day.  Our mission “We inspire grown-ups to play” fuels our passion for an exciting guest experience and a rewarding career.  If you have the desire to create memorable experiences, personalize rewards and delight every guest, every team member every time, we invite you to explore our dynamic yet unique career opportunities.  

JOB SUMMARY:

The Cook is responsible for preparing recipes and food items in accordance with the Executive Chef’s requirements.

 

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:  

•         Prepare, sautés, broiled, fried, baked and grilled food items in accordance to kitchen needs.

•         Perform various job duties that will include operation of grill, fryer, broiler, oven and French top in accordance with kitchen needs.

•         Perform preliminary preparation work in a timely manner.

•         Ensures ingredient supply levels are accurate. 

•         Move items from shelves to carts and transport to assigned stations for restocking purposes.

•         Maintains the required par of food items in their assigned station from support areas throughout the property.

•         Maintains a sanitary and organized work area.

•         Understand proper safety and health codes and regulations and maintain them regularly.

•         Ensure all areas assigned are clean and free of debris

•         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.

•         Assist with any other job related duties that may be assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:  

•         Work requires effective communication in English, both verbal and written form in a professional manner.

•         Work requires a minimum of one year experience as a cook.

•         Work requires ability to work from a standing position for extended periods of time.

•         Work requires a neat appearance with good personal hygiene.

PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEMANDS:  

Loud, fast paced environment, multiple tasks to be handled under time constraint.  Front-line buffet cooks will have a great deal of direct public contact. Requires standing, walking, bending, pushing, pulling, lifting and reaching throughout the shift. Must be able to handle a heavy business volume in a timely manner. Work requires pushing carts up to 70lbs, lifting full pots up to 100lbs, repetitive stirring, extreme hot and cold work conditions, and bending at the waist. 

Disclaimer: This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements, efforts or working conditions associated with the job.  While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the current job or to require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change, (e.g. emergencies, changes in personnel, workload, rush jobs or technical developments).