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Prep Cook

12/13/2025

The Prep Cook is responsible for preparing hot and cold food for catered events and maintaining cleanliness in the kitchen. This includes following established recipes and ensuring compliance with health and safety guidelines.

Working Hours

20 hours/week

Company Size

51-200 employees

Language

English

Visa Sponsorship

About The Company

Settlers HospitalityGroup prides itself in revitalized hospitality. We restore Inns, adding upscale but historically accurate elements to all properties. Settlers Hospitality consists of three hotels: The Settlers Inn, Ledges Hotel, Silver Birches Resort. Four restaurants: The Settlers Inn Restaurant (farm to table), Glass-wine.bar.kitchen (small plates style), The Dock on Wallenpaupack (casual water inspired eatery) and Cocoon Coffeehouse & Bakery (coffee shop, bakery and catering). The group also operates several amenity businesses such as Art on the Edge, Lake Region Fitness, and The Potting Shed HOTELS All of our hotels are historic properties converted into hotels with modern amenities and historic touches. We have 76 keys and 101 room selections including The Settlers Inn (authentic arts and crafts lodge), Ledges Hotel (industrial contemporary boutique hotel), and Silver Birches (vintage lakefront resort). We participate in Historic Hotels of America, Select Registry & Green Lodging with the Delaware Highlands Conservancy. Our hotels have a very high standard of hospitality with a strong focus on the guest experience. RESTAURANTS Our restaurants range in cuisine style, price, and décor. The Settlers Inn is a farm to table fine dining experience in the historic Arts & Crafts dining room or on our terrace overlooking an extensive garden with over 100,000 perennials. Glass-wine.bar.kitchen is a tapas style sophisticated casual dining establishment, set in a gorge next to the Paupack High waterfalls. The Dock on Wallenpaupack is a casual style eatery with a vintage and seafood focus located on the shoreline of Lake Wallenpaupack. The Settlers Inn has the highest price point, followed by Glass-wine.bar.kitchen, and the lowest price point is the casual fair at The Dock on Wallenpaupack. Cocoon coffee house and bakery is a locally roasted coffee shop and quick service breakfast location, available at the Hawley Silk Mill.

About the Role

Description

Our commitment to excellent guest services is what drives us, and we are dedicated to hiring outstanding individuals who share our passion for ensuring our guests have an exceptional experience while staying with us. We are currently looking for a hardworking and motivated individual to join our restaurant team. The Prep Cook is responsible for assisting in the kitchen to prepare for catered events, including food preparation and maintenance of kitchen cleanliness. All work must remain within guidelines for health, sanitation, and safety. The Prep Cook prepares food that meets current federal, state, and local standards, guidelines, and regulations by following established policies and procedures and ensures that safe and high-quality food service is provided at all times. The Prep Cook prepares all items needed for event, from chopping vegetables to making sauces and butchering meat, and may be asked to prepare items for another station or special event. This is a part-time, on-call position for an upscale catering business. Evenings, holidays, and weekends are a must. We are seeking those who are friendly, hardworking, professional, reliable, and passionate about great food and service

Responsibilities:

Prepares hot and cold food (entrees, soups, salads, etc.) following established recipes for all meal services and special events
Cleans work areas and all equipment used in food preparation
Follows safety and sanitation rules and practices
Restocks food supplies and takes inventory when required
Stores, labels, and loads food for transportation to event

Requirements

Qualifications:

High school diploma or high school equivalency diploma preferred
One year of relevant experience working off premise catering events is preferred
Formal culinary training a plus
Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
Able to bend, kneel, squat, stand, and lift heavy objects as needed
Able to work days, evenings, weekends, and holidays
Able to work well on a team with a positive attitude

Key Skills

Food PreparationKitchen CleanlinessSafety PracticesSanitation RulesTeamworkCommunication SkillsInventory ManagementCatering EventsRecipe FollowingVegetable ChoppingSauce MakingMeat ButcheringPositive AttitudeReliabilityHardworkingProfessionalism