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Impact Kitchen Culinary Experience Team Member in Toronto, Ontario
MAKE YOUR IMPACT
Impact Kitchen is on a mission to empower our community to eat healthy, nutritionally-dense foods with a focus on quality and sustainability. We know that what you eat matters, and we seek to make an impact by choosing local, ethically-sourced ingredients that will nourish you and help you thrive everyday. Founded in 2015, Impact Kitchen is the brainchild of former personal trainer and nutrition expert, Josh Broun, and Frank Toskan (co-founder of M·A·C Cosmetics).
In addition to our 5 restaurants located within Toronto’s core, Impact Kitchen fuels many of the city's major sports teams and top athletes through our catering and culinary programs and partnerships.
Impact Kitchen is always looking for enthusiastic, passionate, service oriented team members to join our diverse team. If health and wellness is your passion, if providing wholesome food and empowering others to make healthy choices drives you, and if you are looking for opportunities to grow alongside a dynamic team, then working with Impact might be a great fit for you!
CULINARY EXPERIENCE TEAM MEMBER
As a Culinary Experience Team Member (CETM) at Impact Kitchen you set the culinary standard high and are passionate to ensure guests enjoy their experience through incredible food. You create delectable and consistent dishes for dine-in and take-out guests, support back of house operations and partner with your Guest Experience counterparts on the team.
Culinary Team Members are highly flexible individuals responsible for dishwashing, preparing and working both Hot and Cold line kitchen stations supporting Impact Kitchen’s breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner menu. As proper food handling, food safety, and consistent recipe preparation are all vital to this position, a primary role of the CETM position is to monitor sanitation, food quality, and food freshness. This position is highly physical; therefore, individuals must possess a strong level of physical stamina. Ideal candidates are efficient, flexible, possess superior time management skills, are team players, and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
COMPENSATION
Culinary Experience Team Members earn $18.00/hour, participate in a tip-pooling program, receive a substantial discount on Impact Kitchen products and have flexible scheduling to accommodate a healthy balanced lifestyle.
TEAM & DEPARTMENT
Culinary Experience Team Members make an impact everyday through our back-of-house operations and make up a large portion of our total team population. In this role you will have the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues from multiple levels of the organization while being the main point of food production for our guests. The Culinary Experience Team Member reports to Culinary Experience Management including the Assistant Kitchen Manager, Kitchen Manager and General Manager of each Restaurant.
Although the first entry point for our culinary inclined restaurant teams, the Culinary Experience Team Member is the perfect knowledge incubator. Those that excel in their capacity at a CETM have the opportunity to succeed to a Culinary Experience Lead role where they train and develop top talent for the organization, and then on to management.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
Preparation, production and execution of menu items and food quality standards according to detailed recipes and instructions
Operation and maintenance of dishwashing unit and dish-cleaning areas
Ability to execute other custodial duties as needed
Receiving and storage of deliveries as related to the commissary kitchen and 3rd party suppliers
Effective storage, management, and safe rotation (FIFO) of all products
Cleaning, sanitation and maintenance of kitchen equipment and food production spaces
Strict adherence to company, municipal and provincial guidelines as they are related to food safety and safe workplace environments
SKILLS
Minimum of 1 year of kitchen experience with a general understanding of cooking and cleaning fundamentals and practices
Strong understanding of food safety and public health practices
Ability to execute and thrive in a fast-paced environment
Strong time management and organizational skills with the ability to multitask when required
Ability to communicate effectively, and respectfully and work well with others in a team-based setting
Be able to work in a standing position for extended periods
Availability to work days, evenings, and weekends as business demands
Ability to lift up to 50 LBS
Work Permit required
Preferred but not required: Food Handlers Certification
INCLUSIVITY AT IMPACT
Impact Kitchen feeds a diverse community and is made stronger by a diverse team. We welcome and encourage applications from our entire community equally. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the decision to hire is based solely on business needs, experience and future potential. Hiring is not determined or influenced by any classification of an individual as protected by the laws that govern the region for which the prospective individual would work within. This is true for all practices and policies within the employee journey/lifecycle.
Impact Kitchen supports alternative ways to interview and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Should you require a reasonable accommodation, please indicate in your application. Both Impact Kitchen management and the applicant share responsibility to communicate and reasonably accommodate.
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