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Let’s see if we’re a fit. We hope so.\nThe Cook III prepares and cooks food for meetings, weddings, conferences, and special events at Luminary Hotel & Co. and the Caloosa Sound Convention Center. Key priorities include consistent food quality, timely production, proper food handling, and teamwork to ensure successful banquet service.Essential Functions\nFood Preparation and Quality\nComplete daily prep and cooking assignments according to established recipes, production lists, guest counts, and portion standards.\nPrepare assigned hot and cold menu items, ensuring proper taste, texture, temperature, and presentation.\nFollow instructions for dietary restrictions and allergies; confirm any questions with the supervisor before preparing or serving food.\nBanquet Production and Service\nOrganize ingredients, equipment, and workstations to meet scheduled service times.\nAssist with banquet plating, buffet setup, replenishment, and breakdown.\nCommunicate preparation progress, shortages, and service concerns promptly to the Banquet Supervisor.\nFood Safety and Sanitation\nUse a calibrated thermometer to verify cooking, holding, cooling, and reheating temperatures; maintain required logs.\nLabel, date, store, and rotate food correctly to maintain freshness and prevent contamination.\nKeep workstations, equipment, coolers, and storage areas clean and organized.\nFollow safe equipment practices and report hazards, injuries, or equipment problems immediately.\nCost Control and Teamwork\nFollow portion standards and production quantities to reduce waste and control food costs.\nHandle ingredients and surplus food responsibly according to established procedures.\nWork respectfully with culinary, stewarding, and banquet service teams.\nAttend daily briefings and required training; perform related duties as assigned.\nQualifications\nPrevious professional kitchen experience preferred; banquet or high-volume cooking experience is an advantage.\nBasic knowledge of cooking techniques, knife skills, sanitation, and food safety.\nAbility to follow recipes and instructions, prioritize assignments, and meet service deadlines.\nDependable attendance, clear communication, and willingness to learn.\nCompletion of required food safety training.\nSchedule and Physical Requirements\nMust be available early mornings, evenings, weekends, and holidays based on business needs. Duties require prolonged standing, bending, reaching, and lifting to 50 pounds, with assistance as needed. Must be able to perform essential duties with or without reasonable accommodation.\nMainsail is an Equal Opportunity Employer and it does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and pregnancy-related conditions), gender identity expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, military service and veteran status, political affiliation, physical or mental disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3245,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Travel & Tourism","Hotels & Resorts","Luxury Travel"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-16T23:10:06Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":47,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":0.55,"age_days":19,"expected_fill_days":18,"reasons":["conf:8","urgency","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-11-05T05:54:30Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/mainsail-lodging-development-banquet-cook-iii","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/mainsail-lodging-development-banquet-cook-iii.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-06T01:13:43Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1993,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-07T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4448850},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4448850"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fmainsail-lodging-development-banquet-cook-iii"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fmainsail-lodging-development-banquet-cook-iii"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fmainsail-lodging-development-banquet-cook-iii"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/mainsail-lodging-development-banquet-cook-iii\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fmainsail-lodging-development-banquet-cook-iii"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":2748198}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"mainsailhotels.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":2748198},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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