Key responsibilities

- Food preparation: Prepare vegetables, sauces, stocks, marinades, salads, pasta ingredients, garnishes, and other mise en place as instructed.
- Cooking support: Assist in preparing European café dishes according to approved recipes, portion sizes, and plating standards.
- Section readiness: Ensure ingredients, utensils, equipment, and workstation supplies are ready before service.
- Food safety: Follow personal hygiene, sanitation, temperature control, cross-contamination prevention, and FIFO/FEFO procedures.
- Inventory: Check ingredient freshness, label and date products, report shortages, and record wastage.
- Service execution: Assist senior chefs during peak hours and ensure timely preparation and dispatch.
- Cleaning and maintenance: Clean workstations, utensils, equipment, and storage areas according to the cleaning schedule.
- Training: Learn recipes, knife skills, cooking techniques, equipment operation, and kitchen SOPs.
- Teamwork: Follow instructions, communicate shortages or quality concerns, and support other sections when assigned.

Commis Chef checklist Daily opening - Attendance, grooming,



workstation sanitation, equipment readiness, ingredient freshness, mise en place

During service - Recipe adherence, portion control, KOT priorities, hygiene, replenishment, wastage recording

Daily closing - Label and store food, discard unsafe items, clean equipment, remove waste, complete handover

Weekly - Deep cleaning, expiry review, stock count assistance, equipment inspection, practical training

Monthly - Hygiene audit participation, recipe knowledge assessment, inventory support, performance review

Qualifications

- Higher Secondary education preferred; culinary or hotel-management qualification is an advantage.
- Freshers may apply if willing to learn and follow kitchen discipline.
- Experienced candidates should demonstrate basic knife skills, food preparation, hygiene, and teamwork.

Pay: ₹15,000.00 - ₹25,000.00 per month

Benefits

- Commuter assistance
- Versatile schedule
- Food provided
- Paid time off

Work Location: In person

📌 Commis Chef (Full-time) (Kozhikode)
🏢 CAFFICANA
📍 Kozhikode