Fry Cook Responsibilities

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The fry cook responsibilities include cooking hamburgers and other fast food items. He maintains and manages the entire 120 billion dollar fast food industry and plays a key role in the same. Immediately on joining the fast food industry, he might have had to handle the cooker and fry pan. He executes his operations at particular restaurants, hotels, bars and some other places where the cooking is comparatively easy. A fry cook is also called a fast food restaurant cook. His job duties, roles and responsibilities deviate from one organization to another, and he generally applies the same principles.

He cools and chills the meat and egg pieces and the vegetables and quantifies them in order to preserve them safely at a place. His organization also keeps a check on the kind and quantity of the food materials brought into the kitchen of the restaurant. He ensures that the food items served to the customers are of high standards and quality. These fast food items generally appear to be very tasty and generate an aroma that is really nice. It is his duty to make sure that these food items taste and look similar or better than the food items served in the restaurants nearby in order to make profits. A fry cook has many key responsibilties:

• Making sure that the fast food items presented to the customers reach them as soon as possible in order to maintain the 'fast' environment
• Ensuring that the food items ordered by the customers reach them in five to six minutes and that they don't wait long in order to satisfy the customers
• Cutting onions, tomatoes and potatoes, maintaining the fridge and cleaning the area where he works
• Cooking hamburgers at the grillroom, frying the food items at the fryer and working under a team in order to get the cooked fast food items out and serve them early to the customers
• Serving food items, beverages and other drinks to the customers, running the immediate payment written records and making food on a constricted menu
• Operating in commercial enterprises, other than the fast food ones and laying more emphasis on food quality control and getting paid way better than in the fast food restaurants
• Making food items from the menu as per the order of the customers and using a huge independent cooking appliance
• Administrating the housekeepers in order to make them clean the restaurant floors and maintain the hygenity and safety of the same
• Making sure that the customers like the taste and quality of the fast food items that have been served to them
• Cleaning the dishes, plates, spoons, bread and other components used in the cooking procedures of fried fast food items
• Cooking the required number of food items for a particular set of customers and preparing fast food items for another set of customers at the same time
• Supervising the serving of fast foods to the customers and overseeing all the fried cooked activities of the kitchen in the restaurant
• Briefing the customers on the kind and taste of the fast food items ordered by the same, as and when needed
• Making income from the customers and cooking the fast food items as per the the person's expertise and skills
• Serving fast food items hot to the customers that are also sometimes parcelled for the same
• Taking into account all the required elements that are needed for cooking the fast food items
• Cooking some items earlier, which are required to be served later to the customers
• Planning the programs and actions and utilizing the kitchen equiment along with the supervisors and informing them about the active issues in the kitchen or organization
• Settling the differences of opinion among the junior cooks under him and if not settled, informing the manager about them
• Assisting all the junior cooks under him for the successful serving management of all the fried cooked fast food items
• Making sure that all his waiters deliver the right food items on the right table and to the right customer
• Making mixture by agreeing with the food instructions and helping other cooks in order to make them execute their jobs quickly
• Making food items that are really different and rare like fried fish, dishes and fried snack foods and chips

Qualifications and Skills Required

The candidate needs to have good kitchen, food cooking and communication skills. He can also be a graduate in hotel management in order to rise to good positions in this field. Apart from all these, he needs to have good management and administrative skills. He should be patient and understanding, as these two qualities would surely impress the clients.

Working Conditions

A fry cook generally works in a kitchen or in such places where there is a danger of cuts and burns . The environment is hot and buzzles with cooking activities. He may feel uncomfortable due to the heat and fast movements of the waiters and other cooks.

Salary

He makes USD 24, 000 in a year on an average. But this salary may alter from a small to a big organization and is usually dependent on the skills of the fry cook.

Thus, the fry cook responsibilities include cooking fast food items for the customers and catering to their requirements.

See Also

Line Cook Responsibilities