Cook 2

The Grand Bohemian Hotel is hiring a Cook 2 for an onsite full-time role in Asheville, NC. This position supports the restaurant, bar, Grand Performer meals, and banquets while helping deliver quality food, confident service, and adherence to food handling and quality assurance standards. You will work in a fast-paced shared kitchen environment and contribute to team success through collaboration, professionalism, and attention to detail.

What you’ll do

• Prepare and present food items for service across the restaurant, bar, Grand Performer meals, and banquets, ensuring quality and compliance with standards.
• Accommodate special guest requests and communicate guest needs to an appropriate leader in a timely and professional manner.
• Maintain guest and company confidentiality, including personal information and key control, while protecting company proprietary information and assets.
• Complete hot and cool temperature books for food and follow food handling procedures.
• Set up hot and cold line stations to specification, rotate food in walking coolers and freezers to help minimize waste and spoilage, and keep prep areas clean.
• Support service by assisting dining room waiters with food and beverage service tasks as directed, including setting tables and keeping menus clean between servings.
• Follow sanitation and health code requirements, including maintaining a neat, organized work area and professional appearance.
• Keep equipment ready for service by completing checklists and walkthroughs, notifying leadership of any equipment problems.
• Assist with dish and kitchen cleanup duties, including washing dishes, glassware, and silverware, washing pots, pans, and trays, rinsing and washing garbage cans, sorting recyclables, emptying garbage containers, and transporting dirty dishes to dishwashing.
• Polish silver and glass as needed; stack clean dishes and move equipment to proper storage.
• Comply with company safety and security policies, report accidents, injuries, and unsafe conditions, and attend training and meetings as directed.
• Complete cross-training and other duties as assigned, planned or unplanned.

What you bring

• Culinary degree or related training equivalent in the Hospitality/Restaurant industry (required).
• 3 years of relevant work experience in a similar scope and title (required).
• Understanding of safety, sanitation, and food handling procedures.
• Basic knowledge of production and operations in relevant kitchen areas.
• Familiarity with proper use and cleaning of relevant kitchen equipment and machinery.
• Ability to communicate effectively and multi-task.
• Proficiency handling knives and culinary tools.
• Basic knowledge of soups, stocks, and sauces.
• Proficient knowledge of sautéing, culling, broiling, poaching, boiling, steaming, and braising.
• Knowledge of fabrication of basic proteins (required).
• Basic knowledge and experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook and POS (point of sale) systems.
• Food Safety Manager certification preferred or attained within 30 days.
• Experience within luxury brand/markets preferred.

Tools and technologies

• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Outlook
• POS (point of sale) systems

Benefits

• 401(k) and 401(k) matching
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Disability insurance
• Paid time off
• Employee discount
• Referral program
• Complimentary employee meals
• Free parking
• Pet insurance

Work schedule and environment

This role is onsite and full-time. Schedules may vary week to week based on business demands, with potential work in excess of 40 hours with or without notice. You must be comfortable working in a shared space with constant noise (no private office) and be able to work safely in a kitchen environment with high temperatures and humidity.

Physical demands

• Regularly push, pull, and lift up to 40 lbs daily.
• Travel by foot, car, bus, airplane, or other transportation as needed, with periods of sitting, waiting, and standing.