Chef/Cook

Mondo de Pasta QV is located on Level 1, QV food hall, Corner Lonsdale and Swanston Streets. The restaurant is seeking a highly professional, motivated, and enthusiastic individual with relevant qualifications and experience to come and join our team as the Full-time Chef.

Position

We are seeking a highly professional, motivated, and enthusiastic individual with relevant qualifications to come and join our team as the Full-time Chef/Cook.

• Maintaining skills and knowledge relevant to job duties and preparing items on a restaurant menu.
• Plan, collect, estimating food and commodities for menus.
• Prioritize menus, recipes, and task sheets.
• Monitoring dish quality at all stages of cooking and preparation.
• Adjusting recipes where required to fit special dietary requirements (e.g., vegetarian).
• Utilising kitchen utensils, appliances, and cookware to prepare ingredients and meals.
• Monitoring and regulating heat and cold sources such as ovens, stoves, fridges, freezers, grills, and other equipment to ensure food and meal quality.
• Preparation of raw ingredients including meat and vegetables through the use of varied cutting and marinating techniques.
• Inspecting raw ingredients to check for spoilage and assess usability.
• Serving and portioning foods and adding garnishes and other ingredients as necessary to ensure dishes are well-presented.
• Preparing and flavouring sauces and gravies with condiments, herbs, spices, and other ingredients as required by the recipe.
• Following safety and hygiene regulations and procedures around food handling, storage, preparation.
• Ensuring the cleanliness of workstations and kitchen areas and abiding by occupational health and safety procedures.
• Providing input to menu changes with consideration of the availability of seasonal produce.
• Communication with other members of staff including waiters, management, and other kitchen staff in relation to issues relevant to the kitchen.
• Estimating stock requirements and ordering stock to ensure the kitchen is fully stocked for service.
• Demonstrate a high standard of personal hygiene.
• Ensures high standards of sanitation and cleanliness are maintained throughout the kitchen.

• Certificate III in Commercial Cookery or equivalent in a relevant field is required, including two years of job experience.

• Certificate IV in Commercial Cookery or above in the relevant field
• Preferred 1 year of relevant experience

The successful candidate will be paid a salary of $70,000 to $80,000 plus superannuation.

Work Location: In person