About the Role
Marriott Syracuse Downtown seeks a Cook I to assist the Sous Chef and/or Executive Sous Chef in kitchen operations, ensuring high-quality food preparation and timely service.
Responsibilities
- Inspects, selects, and uses food items of the highest quality for menu item preparation.
- Ensures food to order items for customers/guests are prepared in a timely and consistent manner.
- Prepares food of consistent quality following recipe cards, production, and portion standards.
- Prepares and cooks food according to recipes, quality standards, presentation standards, and food preparation checklist.
- Dates all food containers and rotates stock.
- Complies with attendance rules and is available to work on a regular basis.
- Performs any other job-related duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Must possess a self-starting personality with an even disposition.
- Must maintain a professional appearance and manner at all times.
- Must be able to communicate well with guests.
- Must be willing to 'pitch-in' and help co-workers with their job duties.
- Must be a team player.
- Must be adaptable to change in work area and hotel procedures.
- Must have a willingness to learn new skills and/or improve existing ones.
- Must have the ability to solve routine problems that occur on the job.
- Must ask for help whenever unsure how to perform a task.
- Understands and believes that every Crescent associate is a guest relations ambassador.
- Flexible availability required.
- Must be available to work weekends.
- Fine dining experience preferred.
- Knife and light butchery skills preferred.
Skills
- Knife skills
- Light butchery skills
Location
- Syracuse
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Fine dining experience preferred
Benefits
- Highly competitive wages
- Exceptional benefit plan for eligible associates & their family members
- 401K matching program for eligible associates
- Flexible scheduling
- Discounts with Crescent managed properties in North America for associates & their family members
- Additional hotel discounts with Marriott International brand hotels
- Free Parking
- Free Meal during shift
- Quarterly employee appreciation events
About the Company
- Crescent Hotels & Resorts strives to create a great place to work where associates at all levels are respected for their differences.
- Dedicated to creating an environment that facilitates open and honest conversations about race, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
- Aims to create change through training, recruiting, and promoting diverse talent to strengthen culture.
Equal Opportunity
- Associates at all levels of our organization are respected for their differences, just like the guests and owners we serve.
- Examining own beliefs and behaviors can create change through training, recruiting, and promoting diverse talent to strengthen our culture.
