The life at the Kitchen - feat. Line Cooks

 A line cook holds down one station on a restaurant line and can be expected to perform a range of duties related to the station. Line cooks are entry-level kitchen positions that focus on learning technique, speed and consistency

Prep Items for Service

Line Cook prepares all items needed for service, from chopping vegetables to making sauces and butchering meat. Sometimes, he will be asked to prepare items for another station or special event.

Set Up Station

The line cook's first task of the day is setting up his station for service by bringing all food items and containers to the line. Stations a line cook might work include garde-manger, saute, fry and grill.

Work Service

During service, a line cook must work to cook components of a table's meal at the same pace as the other cooks to ensure that everything is finished at the same time. To be successful, he will focus on accuracy, presentation, cleanliness and timing.

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Work during service – Responsibilities of a line cook

When service has started, the skills of a cook on the line will be really tested as they will have to keep up with orders that keep streaming in. 

During service, the skills of a line cook will be tested for accuracy, quality of presentation and the perfection of timing.

Line Cook ensures food quality

 They will have to time the delivery of their food in such a way that it coincides will the delivery time from all the other stations for a meal at a particular table.

Cleaning up work station – Responsibilities of a line cook

Once the customers have left and service is shut down, the line cook will have to begin cleaning up of their station. Unused food will have to stored away in the pantry after they are properly wrapped. All the equipment that was used in the day’s work will need to be shut off, cleaned and sanitized for the next day’s work.

Apart from all the duties mentioned above, these cooks might also be required to take inventory counts, train other line cooks and also oversee the general cleaning of certain areas in the kitchen.

The job can be quite hectic although it also provides an invaluable work experience.

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