Required Years of Experience
2 years
Job Details
Line cooks seek to craft meaningful experiences for guests through adherence to the strict standards of the EnjoyAM Restaurant Group in the preparation and execution of dishes. Line cooks report directly to the Sous Chefs and Chef de Cuisine and contribute to the team in a variety of tasks. The qualified candidate has a love for food, a passion for service, and a team oriented work ethic.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
- Ensure ingredients and final products are fresh
- Follow recipes, including measuring, weighing and mixing ingredients
- Bake, grill, steam and boil meats, vegetables, fish, poultry and other foods
- Present, garnish and arrange final dishes
- Occasionally serve food
- Maintain a clean and safe work area, including handling utensils, equipment and dishes
- Handle and store ingredients and food
- Maintain food safety and sanitation standards
Full Time Line cooks work four, ten hour shifts with at least two consecutive days off. We work to provide a sense of work life balance in an industry that is fast paced and can be high stress. The menus change regularly, giving line cooks opportunities to learn new MOPs and learn how to develop dish ideas. We also assist with medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as accident and life insurance.
Skills & Qualifications
- Knowledge of safety procedures, including safe temperatures at which ingredients must be kept and to which food must be prepared to avoid foodborne illness
- Ability to work as part of a team, collaborating on complex dishes
- Interpersonal skills to interact with a variety of other people, such as waitstaff, dishwashers, management and sometimes customers
- Calm demeanor to work in a high-stress, fast-paced environment
- Accountability for the dishes they prepare measuring up to the expectations of management and customers alike
- Comprehension and organization to follow direct orders and recipes and to correctly prepare dishes to the standards of the restaurant
- Manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination to handle tools, such as knife techniques for chopping, slicing, cutting and dicing
- Ability to stand in one place for hours at a time, handle extreme heat and work shifts
Education & Experience
- One to two years of experience as a line cook, restaurant cook, or prep cook
Compensation Details
Compensation: Hourly (Based on Experience)
Benefits & Perks: Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, Life Insurance, Potential Bonuses, Dining Discounts
Required Skills
Knowledge of Safety Procedures
Attention to Detail in Food Preparation
Time Management Skills to Handle Multiple Tasks Efficiently
Food Prep
Adaptability to Changing Menus
Time Management Skills to Complete Tasks Efficiently
Problem Solving Skills
Ability to Work as Part of a Team
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Born and bred Memphians, Andy Ticer and Michael Hudman opened Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen in 2008 to feature innovative Italian cooking rooted in Southern tradition. The Chefs trained at Johnson and Wales University in Charleston, South Carolina and the Italian Culinary Institute in Calabria, Italy.
Their second restaurant, Hog & Hominy, is a wood burning, neighborhood eatery and was named one of the top new restaurants by GQ Magazine, Southern Living, and Bon Appetit as well as a semi-finalist for Best New Restaurant from the James Beard Foundation, which also named the chefs semi-finalists for the Best Chef: Southeast award for three consecutive years during 2012-2014, and a finalist for the award in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. In 2013, they were awarded Food & Wine Magazine’s Best New Chefs Award and named in Starchefs.com’s 2014 Kentucky-Tennessee Rising Star Chefs. In his review of the restaurants in 2013, Pete Wells of the New York Times called the restaurants “A sibling rivalry worth diving into.”
Early 2015 saw the opening of the chefs’ third space, a craft butcher shop and café, complete with classic pastries, coffee, espresso. Porcellino’s Craft Butcher received four stars from The Commercial Appeal and made the Bon Appetit list of Top 50 new restaurants for 2015. The chefs opened Josephine Estelle in the Ace Hotel New Orleans in March 2016. The restaurant made Bon Appettit’s top 50 Best New Restaurants and Southern Livings Best New Restaurants in the South.
Catherine & Mary’s, the chefs’ first restaurant in Downtown Memphis, opened in September of 2016 and brought together their blend of grandmother cooking, Italian philosophy of dining, and southern ingredients to the heart of the city.
In January of 2018, the chefs opened their second downtown restaurant, located in the Old Dominick Distillery on South Front Street. This most recent addition embraces a new and exciting restaurant concept, featuring an open kitchen, wood fire cooking and a raw bar, all overlooking the Mississippi River in the South Main Arts District of Downtown Memphis.
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