First Cook Jobs in McKinney, TX (NOW HIRING)

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Located inside Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, Grand Hyatt DFW offers a dynamic, high-volume culinary environment serving hotel guests, business travelers, airline crews, groups, restaurant guests, banquet events, and colleague dining. The Cook 3 is responsible for preparing and producing high-quality food items according to hotel standards, recipes, production guidelines, and service expectations.

This position is ideal for a culinary professional with prior kitchen experience who is ready to continue developing technical skills, speed, consistency, and confidence in a full-service hotel kitchen environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare, cook, and present food items according to recipes, production standards, portion guidelines, and plating expectations.
• Set up and maintain assigned station with proper mise en place, tools, equipment, and supplies.
• Support food production for restaurants, banquets, in-room dining, colleague dining, and other culinary areas as assigned.
• Follow prep lists, production sheets, and direction from culinary leadership to ensure service readiness.
• Prepare ingredients by washing, cutting, chopping, measuring, portioning, marinating, and organizing food products.
• Cook menu items using basic and intermediate culinary techniques, including grilling, sauteing, roasting, frying, baking, steaming, and other assigned methods.
• Maintain food quality, freshness, presentation, and consistency throughout service.
• Label, date, store, and rotate food items according to food safety and hotel standards.
• Maintain cleanliness and sanitation of workstations, equipment, cutting boards, reach-ins, walk-ins, storage areas, and kitchen tools.
• Communicate shortages, production needs, quality concerns, or equipment issues to culinary leadership.
• Minimize waste through proper storage, portioning, production, and organization.
• Follow all hotel, department, safety, sanitation, and food handling procedures.
• Work collaboratively with cooks, chefs, stewards, servers, banquet teams, and other hotel colleagues.
• Assist with inventories, receiving, stocking, and kitchen organization as needed.
• Perform other culinary duties as assigned.

We Offer Excellent Benefits:

• Free room nights, Discounted and Friends & Family Room Rates
• Medical, Prescription, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 401K with company match
• Paid Vacation, sick days, new child leave, and personal day
• Paid Family Bonding Time and Adoption Assistance
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Free colleague meals during shift
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Discounts at various retailers - Apple, AT&T, Verizon, Headspace and many more

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        Previous culinary, line cook, prep cook, hotel, restaurant, banquet, or food service experience preferred.

        Basic to intermediate knowledge of cooking techniques, knife skills, food preparation, and kitchen safety.

        Ability to read, understand, and follow recipes, prep lists, and production instructions.

        Strong attention to detail, cleanliness, organization, and food quality.

        Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced kitchen environment.

        Good communication skills and ability to work as part of a team.

        Ability to follow direction and prioritize tasks based on business needs.

        Food handler certification or ability to obtain required certification.

        Culinary degree, apprenticeship, or hotel culinary experience preferred but not required.

        Must be able to work a flexible schedule, including mornings, evenings, weekends, holidays, and business-demand periods.

All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.