Join our team! Windsor Hospitality thrives in building hospitality careers. We want to design a path of professional growth and give you the keys to such success. We are recognized as a strong partner with warm-hearted hospitality staff nationwide. Windsor Hospitality is looking for their newest Cook!

What we offer:

Join a team that invests in you! We’re proud to offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package to support the well-being and growth of all our eligible employees in our diverse and inclusive environment:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability Insurance: If eligible, enjoy access to quality healthcare plans to stay healthy and protected.
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA): Pre-tax savings for healthcare and dependent care expenses.
• 401(k) & Roth 401(k) Plans: Plan for your future with employer-supported retirement options.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Confidential support services for personal and professional well-being.
• Career Growth Opportunities: We promote from within and invest in your long-term success.
• Paid Time Off (PTO): Take time to relax, recharge, and explore life outside of work.
• Paid Sick Leave: Supportive sick time policy to care for your health when you need it.
• Exclusive Employee Hotel Discounts: Take advantage of special rates for hotels in our brand portfolio—just for our team members and their family & friends.
• Enjoy complimentary On-Shift Meals (participating hotels): Enjoy a free, delicious meal provided by the hotel during each scheduled shift.
• Recognition & Rewards Program: Our team members are regularly acknowledged through performance awards, milestone celebrations, and incentive programs that recognize excellence and dedication.

About this Location:

The Renaissance Asheville is a 278 room hotel located in the heart of downtown Asheville, with plenty of greenscapes and sweeping views of the Smoky Mountains. The Blue Ridge Mountains are the perfect backdrop to explore North Carolina's best kept secret. We welcome guests to discover the unexpected as they journey through our neighborhood.

Why do we need you?

To prepare, season, and cook soups, meats, vegetables, desserts, and other food stuff for consumption in the restaurant.

What you will do:

1. Reads menu to estimate food requirements, orders food from supplier, or procures it from storage.
2. Adjust thermostat controls to regulate temperature of ovens, boilers, grills, roasters, and steam kettles.
3. Measures and mixes ingredients according to recipes, using variety or kitchen utensils and equipment, such as blenders, grinders, slicers, and tenderizers, to prepare soups, salads, graves, desserts, sauces, and casseroles.
4. Bakes, roasts, broils and steam meats, fish, vegetables, and other foods.
5. Adds seasoning to food during mixing or cooking, according to personal judgment and experience.
6. Observes and tests food being cooked by tasting, smelling, and piercing with a fork to determine that it is cooked.
7. Carves meat, portions food on serving plates, adds gravies, sauces, and garnishes servings to fill orders.
8. Return all food items not used on next shift to designated storage areas, being sure to cover/date all perishables.
9. May supervise other cooks and kitchen employees.
10. May wash, peel, cut and shred vegetables and fruits to prepare them for use.
11. May butcher chickens, fish and shellfish.
12. May make bread, rolls, cakes, and pastry.
13. May price items on the menu.
14. Required to be always in uniform when working on the property, including wearing a name identification badge.
15. Supports and adheres to the core values, the mission statement, service fundamentals, and guest service philosophy as defined by the company.
16. All other duties as assigned by a manager or supervisor.

Skills and abilities you bring:

• Skillfully use hand tools or machines needed for your work.
• Read recipes of items to be prepared.
• Measure, cut, or otherwise work on materials or objects with great precision.
• Use arithmetic or shop geometry to figure amounts of material needed, dimensions to be followed and cost of materials.
• Picture what the finished product will look like.
• Accept responsibility for the accuracy of the work as it is turned out.
• Must thrive in a multi-tasking, fast paced working environment.
• Good time management and organizational skills.

Schedule & Hours: This is a full time position, 40 hours per week.

Physical Demands: Medium work. Exerting up to 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally. Requires walking or standing to a significant degree, and or requires working at a production rate pace entailing the constant pushing and or pulling of materials even though the weight of those materials is negligible. Reach overhead and below the knees, including bending, twisting, pulling, and stooping.

Windsor Hospitality is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture. Windsor Hospitality does not discriminate on the basis of disability, veteran status or any other basis protected under federal, state or local laws.