Culinary Creator A.k.a. Lunch Cook

**YOUR DAILY MISSION**: Nourish and fuel our kick-ass crew with delectable lunch offerings.

**WHO ARE YOU?**
You are a passionate culinary creator with a skill for creating connection through exceptional meals and experiences. You co-create with your leadership team to develop and deliver innovative recipes and delicious food that feeds the soul. Specifically, your skills and passion will help fuel our entire onsite staff at Kicking Horse Coffee. You connect with people, through fun, friendliness, and of course flavour. Our staff will love your food because they know it was made with LOVE.

**WHAT WILL YOU DO?**
As a cook and food extraordinaire, you will work with our kick-ass culinary leadership team to make some of the finest and freshest food around You will be responsible for developing and delivering our staff lunch program in collaboration with our Manager of Taste and First Cook, making sure our staff are fed, nourished, and ready to kick ass To get specific, this role will be responsible for the following:
**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Prepare lunch offerings according to standard recipes.
- Develop, create, and enhance our lunch time staff menu, using your creative soul and passion for freshness and flavor.
- Lead and deliver the prep and cooking for our staff lunch offerings, ensuring our lunches are ready to go for all staff and guests.
- Plan, track, order and stock baby Make sure our inventory will meet our daily and weekly requirements to feed the bunches.
- Keep our work area, ingredients, utensils, and equipment cleaned and well maintained. Treat our brand-new shiny kitchen with love and care.
- Bring the energy, ideas, and participation to our Café Team meetings, share your food knowledge, ideas, and overall positive vibes.
- We like to keep things fun, fresh, and safe around here for all folks that visit or work at our Café (including you) This means:

- Ensure our products are consistently exceptional and high quality, both during and after cooking.
- Complete daily checks to ensure freshness and quality standards are met.
- Following operational policies and procedures, especially those for food handling.

**QUALIFICATIONS**
- Prior experience working in a kitchen is a must
- Experience working a leadership position within a kitchen is an ASS-et.
- Ability to deliver a kick ass customer service and culinary experience.
- You thrive in an environment where there are multiple things going on, and at times can be high pressure. Food to be chopped, dishes to be cleanedyou know the drill
- Food Safe Level 1 or a willingness to take or refresh.
- You are an excellent communicator, with exceptional verbal, interpersonal and listening skills.
- Must be able to lift a minimum of 25-40 pounds.

**CULTURE CHARACTERISTICS**

**LOVE **Passion for food and a creative and unconventional culinary approach. An appetite and aptitude for creating healthy menu items.
**AWAKE **Genuine, professional, and fun disposition, with a positive, “glass half full” outlook on life.
Think fast You are on top of it, a solutions-oriented problem solver and quick thinker.
**INTENTIONAL **Thrives under pressure. In the middle of a busy kitchen, with many dishes, and plenty of orders, and staff lunches needing to be made, you got er covered. This ain’t your first rodeo.
Annihilate mediocrity with strong attention to detail; high standards for quality; excellent time management.
**SOPHISTICATED **You have the 3 R’s:

- Responsible
- Reliable
- Ready to rock our staff’s tastebuds with a nutritious and delicious lunch

**COURAGEOUS **You are independent and comfortable working as part of a team and on your own.

**PERKS TO PIQUE YOUR INTEREST**
When individuals thrive, communities thrive. And we are here to help that happen. The following perks and programs have been designed with intention, to ensure our people prosper.
- ** The Dough**: This role has a starting range of $19.96 - $23.11 per hour with consideration based on experience.
- ** Mug Fillers**:Damn good discounts on coffee beans and have all the caffeine you will need to keep you fuelled onsite. These benefits include discounted beverages, food, and merchandise in the Café.
- ** Wellness Allowance**:Designed to support employee wellness and mental health, our benefits program is as full as our mugs
- ** Annual wellness and recreation allowance;** up to $700, prorated for part-time hours
- Celebrate your birthday with a gift certificate to your local business of choice
- Access to emergency or crisis support through our EFAP
- ** Environmental and Community Giving**:Our Green Commuting program pays employees up to $3.00 per day for choosing a green commute to work. Our Dream Fund provides Kicking Horse Coffee dreamers with financial funding to put towards community projects.
- ** Continued Education**: All employees have access to world class, online learning through our partnership with Harvard ManageMentor.
- ** Exceptional Human Beans**: Working wi