Cook - Sportsbook

Join PENN Entertainment in Baton Rouge, LA as a Cook for the Sportsbook, supporting a high-volume culinary setting through efficient food preparation and professional, guest-focused service. This onsite role emphasizes order accuracy, safe food handling, and keeping stations stocked, clean, and ready for service.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide fast, friendly, professional, and responsive customer service to culinary team members and buffet guests.
• Greet guests and make each guest welcome when approaching their station.
• Maintain current and accurate information on food items, including preparation techniques, seasonings, and ingredients.
• Prepare food items according to guest orders, including breakfast items, entrees, and desserts based on guest requests.
• Use proper cooking methods and cook to specifications while handling, storing, and rotating food in accordance with established health and safety standards.
• Slice, dice, and chop raw products as needed.
• Carve meats, portion food on serving plates, add gravies and sauces, and garnish plates as required.
• Wipe counter areas, sinks, and floors as required to maintain a clean and safe workstation.
• Maintain cleanliness of designated areas as directed under established health and safety standards.
• Maintain par levels of operating supplies and food product for each workstation, obtaining replacement stock from warehouse inventory in line with procedure.
• Operate and maintain equipment and utensils as required, following established guidelines and safety procedures.
• Provide personalized service and use guests’ names when possible.
• Know and promote current casino events and programs, and provide directions to casino areas.

Requirements

• 3 years of prior experience as a Cook in high volume food service operation.
• Knowledge of kitchen sanitation, operation, and maintenance of kitchen equipment.
• Basic knowledge of food preparation techniques.
• Knowledge of weights, measures, and recipe yield.
• Ability to possess and maintain culinary tools (knives) to perform essential job functions.
• Ability to read, write legibly, understand, and speak English.
• Excellent customer service and communication skills.
• Availability to work the required schedule, including nights, weekends, holidays, and overtime as needed.
• Ability to respond to visual and oral cues.
• Ability to tolerate areas with high temperatures.
• Ability to tolerate industry standard chemicals used for cleaning and sanitizing.
• Ability to work at a fast pace in often crowded and noisy environments.
• Ability to maintain a neat, professional, well-groomed appearance and uphold company appearance and dress standards.
• Physically mobile with reasonable accommodations, including ability to push, pull, carry, and lift up to 25 lbs., and ability to push, pull, reach, bend, twist, stoop, stack, crouch, kneel, and balance in varying work areas such as confined spaces.

Benefits

• Wellness programs designed to support team members’ financial, physical, and mental well-being.
• Day-one medical coverage.
• 401(k) matching.
• Annual performance bonus.
• Paid time off earned according to local policy, increasing with length of employment.