About City of Hope

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

Position Summary:

The Cook I will accurately and efficiently prepare, portion, cook, and present a variety of hot and/or cold food items for various meal periods: to include Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Special/Catered Events. The general responsibilities of the position include those listed below, but City of Hope may identify other responsibilities of the position.

As a successful candidate, you will

• Prepare and cook ‘to order’ foods that may require short preparation time.
• May prepare food and serve customers at an a la carte and may operate a grill station.
• Prepare food in accordance with current applicable federal, state and City of Hope standards, guidelines and regulations to ensure high-quality food service is provided.
• Read food order or receive verbal instructions on food required by patron and prepare and cook food according to instructions.
• May prepare meals for customers requiring special diets.
• Provide excellent customer service at all times.
• Follow basic recipes and/or product directions for preparing, seasoning, cooking, tasting, carving and serving soups, meats, vegetables, desserts and other foodstuffs for consumption in eating establishments. Prepare foods under direct supervision or instruction by operating a variety of kitchen equipment to measure and mix ingredients, washing, peeling, cutting and shredding fruits and vegetables, and trimming and cutting meat, poultry or fish for culinary use. May produce some batch goods using basic cooking techniques.
• Taste products, reads menus, estimates food requirements, checks production, and keeps records to accurately plan production requirements and requisition supplies and equipment.
• May receive inventory and move/lift foodstuffs and supplies.
• Comply with all company safety and risk management policies and procedures and reports all accidents and injuries in a timely manner.

Your qualifications should include:

High School diploma, GED or equivalent experience.

0 to 2 years of related work experience.

Knowledge of basic operation of equipment and cash-handling procedures preferred.

Additional Information:

As a condition of employment, City of Hope requires staff to comply with all state and federal vaccination mandates.

City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer. To learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, please click here.