Job Details
Ranch Pizza is looking to hire a counter service/line cook with open and weekend availability!
We are a small crew with a simple menu of pizzas, salads, and sides available for dine-in and takeout, with everything made in-house.
This position will be scheduled around 28-32 hours a week. Everyone gets cross trained in prep, expo, FOH and the pizza line.
Typical duties include:
- Topping and cooking par baked pizzas to order
- Prepping ingredients for the line
- Cutting, garnishing, and plating/packaging pizzas and sides for orders (expo)
- Assisting in dishwashing and food running as needed
- Following batch recipes to make sausage, ranch, sauce, etc.
- Using knife skills to efficiently cut pineapples, onions, mushrooms, etc.
- Being able to work the line and prep during the day
- Being able to run the counter when needed
- Taking orders over the phone and in person.
- Setting station up for success in the morning for a busy dinner service, which includes light vegetable prep of salad ingredients, stocking ranch, beverages and paper products.
- Delivering the correct order to tables in house.
- Handing off the correct order to online, phone-in and delivery service orders.
- Communicating with customers, explaining our menu and product.
Our ideal candidate would have the following traits:
- Incredible communication skills. Between Ranch ownership, Operations managers, our partners in each space and employees, there are a lot of people to communicate with and we feel it's vital to have clear lines of open and honest communication between all parties to work together well.
- Proactive problem-solving skills. Being able to adapt and learn on the fly when engaging with the daily challenges that restaurants throw at you while keeping a cool head will help you excel in this position.
- A knack for organization. Staying clean and organized really helps keep food quality up, waste down and employees sane. Building systems of clear expectations, organization and workflow are super important to be able to keep up with the demand while keeping costs down.
- A good palate and a passion for food. Pizza is about 70% baking, and we take great pride in our dough process. Even if our ideal candidate doesn't have pizza experience, they should have the desire to learn and even want to improve the process. Flavor is the key that sets us apart and knowing what good food tastes like is very important.
- A little hustle and the ability to laugh it off. We started making pizza because it was fun. We realize this is just a job, but we want someone who wants to be here and feel good about the work they put in. Happy employees make good pizza and having a positive attitude and motivational outlook really helps this process.
Pay starts at $18/hr, with tips split evenly between BOH and FOH. These typically range between $8-$12/hr. There s a 90-day review period and we offer subsidized health insurance for full-time employees after 60 days.
Check us out on Instagram @ranchpdx!