Cook

Your tasks

What this role manages

• Cook every core dish to the NiKU iKU standard: yakiniku and nitsuke
• Hold portion and sauce to specification on every dish, including customised orders.
• Prepare ingredients and set up the station before service, and reset it after.
• Complete pre-opening, pre-closure and triple checks, and record them.
• Keep the station clean, hygienic and halal-compliant, including separation of utensils and ingredients.
• Check ingredients at the station when they arrive, by sight and smell, and reject what fails.
• Receive goods, record them, and print an expiry-date label for any food once its pack is opened, for example edamame.- Reply to work messages on Lark, SMS or WhatsApp in English or Chinese.
• Wear the correct protective equipment and follow hot-oil and equipment procedure.
• Report every near miss and every incident on the day it happens.
• Keep the station stocked through service and flag a shortage before it stops the line.

Requirements

What this role leads

• Hold the standard when the queue is long, rather than trading quality for speed.
• Speak up about a food safety or halal concern, including to someone more senior, and keep speaking until it is dealt with.
• Take feedback and corrections without getting defensive, and apply them at the next service.
• Help a new crew member find things and learn the station, without being asked to.
• Show the core values of the company in an open kitchen where customers can see the work.