Company description

Sam's Graces Cafe is an elevated, eclectic, scratch cafe serving thoughtful cuisine in the gaslight district of Petoskey, Michigan located steps away from Lake Michigan.

At Sam's Graces Cafe we are all about the quality of our food. We produce clean, traditional, honest cuisine that customers have been returning to for over 12 years.

Our cafe has 55 seats, serves breakfast, lunch and brick oven pizza with a fine dining focus but in a casual setting. Our food is produced from raw, organic ingredients using time-tested techniques to produce beautiful, delicious dishes. We do not use frozen or pre-packaged food - instead we make everything ourselves from the ground up including all of our baked goods, bread, sauces and even our ketchup and mustard.

We employ a small staff of up to 15 people. Our kitchen is very serious and intense about our product but we also like to laugh and have fun.

We operate an extremely clean, sanitary, safe, organized and efficient environment that focuses on team work, showcases the local bounty of seasonal products and produces a sophisticated level of breakfast and lunch that passionate culinarians can be proud of.

Job description

Sam's Graces Cafe, a scratch, carefully crafted, artisan-prepared food cafe is currently seeking individuals with fine-dining, high-volume breakfast and lunch line cooking experience to join our team for the summer season. Interested candidates should have experience preparing European and American inspired brunch and lunch, traditional, but high quality dishes as well as wood-fired brick oven pizza.

Everything produced out of our kitchen is scratch-made using high quality ingredients. We do not use steam tables, deep-fryers or microwaves. Everything is prepared fresh, at the time ordered.

Responsibilities:

• Prepping and stocking cook line
• Preparing cook line for daily service which includes but is not limited to, preparing hollandaise sauce, pancake mix, par-cooking bacon, heating soup, organizing cook line for daily service. . .
• Daily inventory
• Ensuring all food stock gets rotated properly
• Assisting with prep of all menu ingredients
• Cooking menu items as ordered by guests
• Assisting prep cooks and dishwashers with needed
• Maintaining a clean, sanitary, organized, efficient cook line at all times
• Participating in the break-down, consolidation, cleaning and sanitizing of kitchen at the end of each service,
• Adhering to company policies and guidelines without wavering

Ideal Candidates will possess the following qualities:

• Punctual
• Reliable
• Trustworthy
• Able to learn and adapt quickly
• Able to follow specific recipes, procedures and instructions
• Able to work as a team
• Has impeccable clean and sanitary habits
• Is able to work in a fast-paced, high-volume, high-pressure environment
• Has breakfast cookery experience which includes successfully flipping eggs in a saute pan and the ability to multi-task cooking many different items at one time
• Is able to lift 50 pounds
• Has the physical ability to stand in hot and cold environments for long periods of time, stretch hands over head, bend and climb on ladders

Sam's Graces Cafe is a tobacco-free and cell-phone free workplace.

Housing

We offer a bunk-house style, shared apartment located 20 miles north of the cafe on 6.5 wooded acres. Candidates must have their own vehicle to commute to work everyday. The apartment consists of one sleeping area with separate beds, bathroom, laundry, kitchen, T.V. and WIFI. For candidates who are interested in renting a dwelling closer to the workplace a housing stipend can be discussed.

Compensation

this position is: hourly, varies DOE, $17.00 - $23.00

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Deadline

no deadline