Required Years of Experience
2 years
Job Details
Are you focused on building a real culinary career—and looking for a restaurant worth landing at?
Do you want to work with a team that takes food craft and community seriously, where the time you put in truly feels worth it?
Are you always trying to level up by joining a place that cares deeply about what they do?
And do you love the trend of upscale Asian small plates—and want to learn more and be part of the operation?
Good To Eat (wearegoodtoeat.com) is located in Emeryville, near West Berkeley and West Oakland. We’re now accepting resumes as we prepare for our upcoming busy season.
Our operating days are Wednesday–Saturday, or Wednesday–Sunday depending on the position.
We’re a critically acclaimed chef-driven team, with press from The New York Times, KQED, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Food & Beverage Magazine—everything from “Best New Chef” to “Best Service.” Join our team of 14! We offer competitive hourly earnings, and full-time team members receive health insurance benefits (yes—we value full-time, and we want to grow together).
Position open now: Line Cook : start from Grill or Sautee station.
We are:
- Chef-driven restaurant , menu change / rotate weekly , consciously source all the ingredients, obsessed with fermentations and pickling.
- we are a women immigrant-led business. We focus on food craft , warm, personable and professional hospitality
- Work in a nice open kitchen. our team is small and highly efficient.
- featured in KQED, New York Times, SF chronicle, Mercury news, Food and Wine magazine
- we are a young and passionate team we want to keep elevating our work in culinary journey. please only apply if you are serious about it. you will love it over here. if you only want to find a temp gig, please do not apply.
We are now accepting resume and want to find full time team member for our growing business:
[ GTE Back of house team member / line cook job requirement and responsibility: ]
Work hours - WED-SAT. FT 2:30 pm~10:30pm . PT 3:30~10:30pm (extra prep hours during the morning is also available if more hour needed)
1. food prep before the service hours - basic prepping speed required.
2. line cook during the service hours - you MUST be able to jump in immediately for frying or grill or sauté station
3. will perform regular kitchen maintenance tasks including: cleaning and close down kitchen stations after shift, receiving ingredients, inventory receiving and storing....etc
4. This position work with our executive chef or sous chef directly
5. Growth opportunity - we are also hiring a sous chef beginning of late-2026. potentially we will promote someone from the existing team.
[About you:]
1. minimum 2 year of professional kitchen experience.
2. Must be able to pickup Either grill station or sautee station to start with.
3. Your prior experience of chef-driven or fine dining restaurant is preferred.
4. You love to create beautiful dishes and care about presentations.
5. Enjoy occasionally having daily limited special menu items and love this kind of challenges.
6. enjoy work in open kitchen
7. you value food craft, you value cooking food to create good memories for customers, you value work ethic, you value team work, you want to cook in a restaurant where dinning community cares a lot.
8. passionate to learn new stuff especially trendy asian small plates with fermentation and pickling technique and want to grow your career in this industry.
We offer:
1. competitive hourly rate, shared tips, and staff meal and drinks and discount
2. Good working culture : We care about our team culture a lot. - focus on food craft, always help each other, while sharpening our skill and speed. both owners are always on site and very hands-on.
3. Staff meal, staff discount. staff meal including tap beer!
4. Our package for Full time staff (meeting FT hour requirements weekly) include medical, dental and visual insurance benefit after 3 months of probation.
How to apply:
Step1:Apply
1. study us a bit if you have not been.
2. Reply with your resume AND
(1) Let us know which position you are applying : Line-grill, or Line -sautee, or Sous chef.
(2) attach or paste working experiences for us, (no resume we won't review)
(3) introduce yourself a bit of why you want to apply
(optional) Go to our website fill application form
Step2: interview, and stag / trial shift
1. we will interview first, and then schedule paid stag
2. stag always take 3 shifts , it will be paid
3. after stag, will go through 3 month probation. -- we will evaluate further and train you during the 3 months, your performance during the 3 month probation will decide your hours and position after probation.
We look forward to hear from you. !
Compensation Details
Compensation: Daily ($240.00) plus tips
Benefits & Perks: Health Insurance, Dental Insurance
Required Skills
Ability to Work Under Pressure
Strong Communication Skills
Adaptability in a Fast Paced Environment
Attention to Detail
Creativity in Dish Presentation
Team Collaboration
Time Management
Willingness to learn and grow
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We just started our business 2.0 after 4 year popup with lots of amazing community support. Our menu incorporate Taiwanese sensibility with local ingredient. We love using our food to bridge culture and build community.
During the 4 years, we create our own Taiwanese sensibility-inspired recipe, we work with local farms, we have successful menu, we got lots or recognition, and we have a established small team culture who always look out to each other and learn together.
After 4 years we opened our Brick-n-Motar soon in Emeryville, Aiming to have our own home base to serve our customers even better. We are very eager to put what we have doing on culinary map.
Our menu will continue our current menu plus more delicate dishes that we were not able to serve.
We are looking for full time BOH and FOH team members to join us on this journey.
If you love modern asian cusine and small team vibe, you will really love here.
If you think it's something fits your interests and can remind you the passion of why you are doing food (that's how we feel everyday!!!!) , please drop us a line and let's talk!!
