Part-Time Cook

About the role

• POSITION: Cook
• LOCATION: The Buddy Holly Hall, Lubbock, TX
• DEPARTMENT: Food & Beverage
• REPORTS TO: Executive/Sous Chef
• FLSA STATUS: Part-Time, Non-Exempt, Hourly
• LEGENDS GLOBAL

Legends Global is the premier partner to the world's greatest live events, venues, and brands. We deliver a fully integrated solution of premium services that keeps our partners front and center through our white-label approach.

Our network of 450 venues worldwide, hosting 20,000 events and entertaining 165 million guests each year, is powered by our depth of expertise and level of execution across every component — feasibility & consulting, owner’s representation, sales, partnerships, hospitality, merchandise, venue management, and content & booking — of world-class live events and venues.

The Legends Global culture is one of respect, ambitious thinking, collaboration, and bold action. We are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can be authentic, make an impact, and grow their career.

Winning is an everyday thing at Legends Global. We have the best team members who understand every win is earned when we come together as one unified team. Sound like a winning formula for you? Join us!

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Prepares hot and cold food to order as per standardized recipes.
• Provides highest quality service to guests and co-workers at all times.
• Follows proper food handling techniques and coordinates the use of time, material, and equipment to avoid waste and unnecessary expense.
• Assists with opening and closing inventory counts.
• Sets station up prior to opening to ensure a state of readiness based on historical par levels to ensure adequate supply during service.
• Store and properly handle raw and cooked foods and non-food supplies.
• Follows temperature danger zone guidelines to ensure food safety.
• Maintains a sanitizer bucket at proper dilution at all times.
• Ensures all products are properly wrapped, labeled, and dated.
• Practices FIFO, (First in, first out), for all products to ensure proper rotation.
• Operate equipment, (knives, grill, flat top, fryer, etc.), according to use and safety instructions.
• Cook the exact number of items ordered by each customer, working on several different orders simultaneously.
• Distributes food to concession cashier/attendant to serve to customers.
• Requests inventory refills as needed on a timely basis to ensure adequate supply is always available for guest requests.
• Keeps work area clean, organized, and sanitary.
• Cleans and organizes workstation at end of shift to ensure safety guidelines are maintained and the stand is ready for the next shift.

This is an event-based role; flexibility to work evenings, weekends, and holidays is required.

Qualifications

• Must have attention to details
• Must be able to adapt to change in the work environment, managing, competing demands, frequent changes, delays or unexpected events
• Must be compliant with Health Codes
• Must be able to work flexible hours, irregular hours may exist

Education and/or Experience

• High school diploma or GED preferred

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to read and interpret recipes and prep list
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals
• Basic knife skills

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

• One-year certificate from culinary school or comparable experience.

Physical Demands

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to move around the facility; to stand for long hours during events; talk and hear. This position may require work inside or outside of the building, as needed by events.
• Position requires walking and standing regularly
• Daily lifting and carrying up to 20-50 lbs up to 10 minutes at a time
• Constant reaching, standing, walking and stooping
• Performing work through repetitive eye/hand coordination
• Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate
• Irregular hours dictated by events
• Must be able to balance and have good manual dexterity