**Overview**

Prepare and cook meals for residents, visitors, and other guests.

**Responsibilities**

**Essential Duties**

1. Cook meals according to menus, special dietary or nutritional restrictions, or numbers of portions to be served following proper production techniques and sanitation standards

2. Clean and inspect equipment, kitchen appliances, and work areas to ensure cleanliness and functional operation according to sanitation guidelines.

3. Compile and maintain records of food use and expenditures.

4. Direct activities of staff performing food service duties

5. Take inventory of supplies and equipment.

6. Requisition food supplies, kitchen equipment, and appliances, based on estimates of future needs.

7. Rotates perishable products and recycles as appropriate

8. Plan menus that are varied, nutritionally balanced, and appetizing, taking advantage of foods in season and local availa...