Full Time Line Cook

Love board games? Enjoy cool and unique snacks? Want to be part of a fun, empowering, and inclusive work environment where playing games is part of your every day? **We're seeking kind, outgoing, and self-starting cooks for a full-time line cook position at Turquoise Goat.** 500% Cooler than your average Vancouver-sized living room, Turquoise Goat is a warm and welcoming cafe-style gathering space, serving colourful bites, Saturday-morning-cartoon-realness, and hundreds of the latest and greatest board and card games from around the world. With dedicated staff to recommend and teach games, groups of all sizes and interests are welcome to discover and play new and exciting board and card games without all the stress of reading the rules. Inspired by the many board game cafes popping up across North America, Turquoise Goat offers a first-of-its-kind experience in Vancouver, blending traditional board game cafe offerings with colourful, quirky, and alternative decor, people-centred business practices, innovative culinary creations, and a splash of retro nostalgia. 2SLGBTQQIA+ / Queer owned and operated, diversity, accessibility, and inclusivity, are integral values at Turquoise Goat, where we're striving to build an inclusive and welcoming space for people of all genders, sexual orientations, cultural backgrounds, abilities, ages, and walks of life to work, gather, socialize, and celebrate the everyday. **Daily Tasks and Responsibilities - Line Cooks** - Prepare menu items in a timely and consistent manner, following standardized presentation guidelines - Ensure allergen-free items are prepared to guidelines when requested - Inspect and receive food deliveries from suppliers - Control and minimize kitchen waste, ensuring stock is rotated regularly - Navigate an iPad based Kitchen Display System (KDS) to receive food and beverage orders - Follow safety regulations and procedures, including proper sanitization, cooling, and cleaning practices - Independently determine when critical tasks require attention and ensure they are completed promptly - Accurately portion menu items as directed - Consistently weigh, measure, mix, and prep ingredients according to standard recipes - Ensure prepared food items are properly labelled and stored according to food safety guidelines - Safely transport boxes and containers weighing upwards of 25 lbs (12 kg) - Assist fellow team members in completing general back-of-house duties **Essential Requirements** - Be able to operate the cooking line independently and efficiently - Knowledge of food preparation techniques including steaming, grilling, broiling, baking, and frying - Quickly, and efficiently communicate with team members in English - Read and understand written documents, printed labels, signage, and food packaging - Be hardworking, self-starting, and driven to complete tasks to the best of your ability - Be honest, receptive to feedback, and a clear communicator - Be kind, respectful, accepting of others, and excited to be part of a positive and inclusive work environment - Have a basic knowledge of special diets (gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian etc.) - Be able to work up to five hours between breaks in a busy environment - Basic knife skills, and knowledge of common cuts (dice, julienne etc.) - Experience working in a similar role is strongly preferred_ **Necessary Qualifications** - FoodSafe Level 1 or equivalent food safety training valid in BC/ willingness to obtain certification immediately upon hiring (this can be done as an online course) **Bonus Qualifications** - Formal culinary arts training - Experience working in a cafe or restaurant - Experience working in a board game cafe - Self-identified board game or trading card game (TCG) nerd **(Super Bonus Qualifications)** - Can do cool yo-yo tricks (and are willing to demonstrate this) - Have actually seen a real live turquoise goat - Something else really cool **Salary & Benefits** As part of our ethos at Turquoise Goat, we respectfully choose to opt out of tip-dependent wage culture. Rooted in racist policy, tipping pushes the onus of paying service staff onto the customer - a practice that disproportionately disadvantages women and people of colour, and unfairly compensates employees who work in non-customer-facing positions. Instead, at Turquoise Goat we believe that all restaurant employees deserve to earn a living wage in the city where they work, regardless of their position. To support this, we pay every one of our team members a living wage for Metro Vancouver, meaning that all positions at Turquoise Goat start at $21 an hour, and increase based on experience. In addition to above-standard wages, we offer extended health and dental benefits for full-time employees, flexible and creative professional development opportunities, meaningful raises, and management promotions from within. Other perks include complimentary staff meals and unlimited non-alcoholic beverages on every shift, provid