Job Details
Job Title
Kitchen Coordinator Posted: 4/23/2025 Salary: $20.00 - $25.00 / hourLocation
IL, Oak Brook240 Oakbrook Center
Oak Brook, IL 60523
Description
IMMEDIATELY HIRING - Kitchen Coordinator
Full-time & Part-Time Opportunities Available
Text APPLY to 972-203-6224
Our Teammates Enjoy:
✦Great Pay
✦Overtime eligibility for schedules over 40 hours/week
✦Paid Sick Leave benefits available in applicable states
✦Benefits package with health, dental and life - View our full benefits page at maggianosjobs.com/benefits.html
✦FREE Education assistance
✦Scratch kitchen
✦Authentic family recipes
✦Lots of other perks and discounts
Job summary:
Responsible for prioritizing and communicating server’s food orders to line cooks for production. Also responsible for organizing and garnishing completed orders for server/runner pick up.
Essential functions
Must be willing and able to:
- Arrange food orders according to tickets
- Balance needs of cooks and servers
- Understand and read a server order (both handwritten and computerized)
- Organize server orders for cook line in order of receipt
- Coordinate orders per ticket to ensure complete delivery
- Assume responsibility for all communication between service staff and kitchen and vice versa
- Clearly and audibly announce servers’ orders to line cooks
- Properly garnish appropriate menu items
- Operate all functions of position alone and without assistance if necessary
- Perform all functions of line and prep cooks
- Maintain menu item counts and communicate to servers when quantities fall below 10
- Assure and maintain food quality standards
- Communicate cordially, effectively and clearly with co-workers
- Perform varied duties to ensure proper back of house operation according to standing operating procedure
Requirements
Qualification standards:
Prefer a minimum of 2 years restaurant experience or the equivalent. Must have knowledge and experience in the preparation of food items.
Must be willing and able to:
- Meet personal schedule requirements punctually
- Project a friendly, courteous and pleasant attitude
- Provide a clean, well manicured persona that reflects the established image of the restaurant
- Stand and/or walk for an entire shift
- Safely transport items to and from the kitchen on a slick and uneven surface and up and/or down stairs where applicable
- Move and transport hot plates to a common or set area for pick up
- Retrieve and stock shelves and coolers
- Safely move about in all areas of the restaurant
- Work a variable and flexible schedule which may include nights, weekends and holidays
- Perform in limited physical space with variable ventilation, smoke and extreme temperatures
equal opportunity employer
Maggiano's Little Italy is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and e-Verify Employer.