Join the Smoke & Donuts Crew | Smoke & Donuts BBQ

Join The Smoke & Donuts Crew!

Job description

Have you ever wanted to learn to cook in a restaurant? We want to train you!

Have plenty of experience? Great, we are looking for leaders!

Smoke & Donuts offers an active open-kitchen opportunity with continuing education, upward mobility, competitive pay, medical/dental/vision/401k benefits, and a technique-rich environment led by a High-Honors graduate of The Culinary Institute of America.

We are a team of hospitality professionals. Here, our bartenders learn to make donuts; our line cooks learn to work expo; our dishwashers become pitmasters... Our employees grow to become restauranteurs.

Our mission is to offer mindfully sourced ingredients crafted with care into food that excites--food that brings joy--shared in a hospitality-rich environment that our friends and families can frequent.

We are looking for people who treat others with kindness and patience. We are looking for people stoked by the idea of joining the Smoke & Donuts Crew. And we are looking for reliable people. We offer an environment of kindness (we are a hospitality company, after all) in a crew of people who enjoy their work and a reliable structure in which growth is encouraged.

Smoke & Donuts® served its first paying customer under a beige pop-up tent in 2017. We now have a brick-and-mortar restaurant and a thriving catering company. We are growing (fast!), and we need talented individuals to join us on the journey! We offer endless growth opportunities, competitive wages, health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, paid time off (once promoted to a salaried role), flexible scheduling, and the chance to learn from a crew of highly educated, talented professionals.

About Smoke & Donuts:

Recently awarded "Best BBQ Restaurant" in Orlando by The Orlando Magazine. Recognized by USA Today's "10Best," and the Orlando Sentinel's "Orlando's Best BBQ Restaurants." Established in Orlando, Florida, in 2016, Smoke & Donuts® offers savory smoked barbecue and hot handmade donuts, harnessing smoking techniques and seasonings found in Texas, Tennessee, Kansas, and the Carolinas.

Responsibilities

The Cook position is a vital ingredient in our company. In a nutshell, when prepping, cooks are responsible for producing food from scratch, following S&D recipes, scaling, measuring, properly cooling, and storing food. When working the line, cooks are responsible for setting up their station, properly heating food, producing our menu of foods, and breaking down their station, following Smoke & Donuts SOPs and local/state/federal food safety guidelines.

The position has a variety of responsibilities, some of which include:

Execution of food-safety practices
Ability and care to cook clean
Regularly lifting 50#
Standing, walking, bending, kneeling, leaning, and spinning around with your team (we call it "dancing" in the industry) for an entire shift
Attentiveness to menu build guides (consistency is part of hospitality)
Equipment use: Flat-top, fryer, sauté, stand mixer, convection oven, range, immersion blender, vacuum sealer, scale, processor
Attractive plating, following demo or picture representations
The ability to maintain calm in a busy environment
Following all Smoke & Donuts' SOPs
Lots of smiles! This is an open kitchen position.

Work Experience:

No restaurant experience is required. Sure, a culinary degree is fantastic, but not required. Culinary students who are currently attending school are also excellent candidates. The starting wage is based on experience/degree--Cooks are also part of our Tip Pool. We are prepared to train the right candidates!

Skills:

The most critical skill a candidate may bring to this position is an eagerness to learn and develop a new culinary acumen while honing existing skills. The position will require the candidate to be interested in learning or already be familiar with the following.

Food safety knowledge
Following recipes & ratios
Scaling recipes & ratios
Organization & time management
Knife skills
Culinary fundamentals: properly fabricate and prepare/cook vegetables, meats, grains, legumes, pastries, pasta
Cooking method, fundamentals: properly bake, roast, sauté, sous-vide, smoke, fry, braise, stew, poach, grill, pipe, blanch & shock, purée, dehydrate, juice, confit, liaison
The ability to maintain calm in a busy environment

Education:

Culinary education is super cool, but it is not required to be a great cook.

Summary... We're flexible and ready to train you!