Cook

**The Meadows of Aurora** (www.tmoa.ca) is a one-of-a-kind Christian Adult Lifestyle Community located thirty minutes north of Toronto in the Town of Aurora. We offer 55+ adults three lifestyle choices - independent living, assisted living and memory care. Our resort style campus sits on 25 acres with over half protected forest. We change the way 55+ adults think about retirement living. Our onsite food service partner, Sodexo, manages meal preparation and service for our assisted living and memory care floors. They have an opening for a Cook. If you are interested, please send your resume to hr@tmoa.ca **Vacancy status:** This position is for an existing vacancy. **JOB OVERVIEW:** The Cook 1 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 Sodexo may identify other responsibilities of the position. These responsibilities may differ among accounts, depending on business necessities and client requirements. **General Responsibilities:** ▪ Prepares and cooks 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. ▪ Prepares food in accordance with current applicable federal, provincial and corporate standards, guidelines and regulations to ensure high-quality food service is provided. ▪ Reads food order or receives verbal instructions on food required by patron, and prepares and cooks food according to instructions. ▪ Provides the highest quality of service to customers at all times. ▪ Follows 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. ▪ Prepares 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. ▪ Tastes products, reads menus, estimates food requirements, checks production, and keeps records in order to accurately plan production requirements and requisition supplies and equipment. ▪ May clean and sanitize work stations and equipment and must follow all Sodexo, client and regulatory rules and procedures. ▪ May receive inventory, move and lift foodstuffs and supplies and prepare meals for customers requiring special diets. ▪ May produce some batch goods using basic cooking techniques. ▪ Attends training programs (classroom and virtual) as designated. ▪ Attends all allergy and foodborne illness in-service training.Complies with all company safety and risk management policies and procedures. ▪ Complies with all Sodexo HACCP policies and procedures. ▪ Participates in regular safety m