What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cook 3 - Williamsburg Inn position at Colonial Williamsburg Foundation?
Upon being hired for this position, you will enter a Probationary status, working up to 40 hours per week.
Upon completion of the probationary period, you could become benefit eligible.
The Williamsburg Inn: Offering the finest regional cuisine and classic luxurious ambience. Whether dining in the Regency Room, Rockefeller Room, or the pleasant casual atmosphere of the Terrace Room, you will experience first-class food, and beverage and unparalleled hospitality.
Essential Duties:
Ability to
Who We Are
Founded in 1926, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is a private, not-for-profit educational, historic, and cultural institution that owns and operates one of the largest and best-known museum complexes in the world. Our mission is “that the future may learn from the past” through preserving and restoring 18th-century Williamsburg, Virginia’s colonial capital. We engage, inform, and inspire people to learn about this historic capital, the events that occurred here, and the diverse peoples who helped shape a new nation.
Today, Colonial Williamsburg is the largest living history museum in the U.S. The Historic Area is the 301-acre restored colonial capital with 88 original buildings and 525 buildings reconstructed to how they appeared in the 18th century through extensive archaeological, architectural, and documentary research. The Historic Area is staffed by highly trained, historically dressed interpreters and expert tradespeople who bring the 18th century to life. The Foundation also owns and operates two world-class museums, the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, and a renowned research library, the John D Rockefeller Jr Library.
Additionally, Colonial Williamsburg is home to five world class accommodations at the Williamsburg Inn, Williamsburg Lodge Autograph Collection, the Griffin Hotel, the Williamsburg Woodlands Hotels and Suites and the unique Colonial Houses in the Historical Area. Visitors may also indulge in food and drink at our many on site restaurants and taverns that blend a historically inspired dining experience with today’s evolved tastes. Each year over 5 million people visit Williamsburg and another 20 million engage with us digitally.
Upon completion of the probationary period, you could become benefit eligible.
The Williamsburg Inn: Offering the finest regional cuisine and classic luxurious ambience. Whether dining in the Regency Room, Rockefeller Room, or the pleasant casual atmosphere of the Terrace Room, you will experience first-class food, and beverage and unparalleled hospitality.
Essential Duties:
- Maintains sanitation of station.
- Prepares and cooks food, soups and sauces.
- Prepares some breakfast meals.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Prepares seafood, poultry entrees; cooks meats; broils steaks and seafood to quality standards.
- Assembles entrees.
- Associate Culinary Degree or Certificate in Culinary Arts from technical school
- At least 4 years restaurant cooking experience including some broiler work (formal culinary training will substitute for 2 years work experience on an equal time basis)
Ability to
- Interact with co-workers in a professional manner
- Transport weights up to 30 pounds
- Read food orders and production charts
- Meet expectations listed below
Who We Are
Founded in 1926, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is a private, not-for-profit educational, historic, and cultural institution that owns and operates one of the largest and best-known museum complexes in the world. Our mission is “that the future may learn from the past” through preserving and restoring 18th-century Williamsburg, Virginia’s colonial capital. We engage, inform, and inspire people to learn about this historic capital, the events that occurred here, and the diverse peoples who helped shape a new nation.
Today, Colonial Williamsburg is the largest living history museum in the U.S. The Historic Area is the 301-acre restored colonial capital with 88 original buildings and 525 buildings reconstructed to how they appeared in the 18th century through extensive archaeological, architectural, and documentary research. The Historic Area is staffed by highly trained, historically dressed interpreters and expert tradespeople who bring the 18th century to life. The Foundation also owns and operates two world-class museums, the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, and a renowned research library, the John D Rockefeller Jr Library.
Additionally, Colonial Williamsburg is home to five world class accommodations at the Williamsburg Inn, Williamsburg Lodge Autograph Collection, the Griffin Hotel, the Williamsburg Woodlands Hotels and Suites and the unique Colonial Houses in the Historical Area. Visitors may also indulge in food and drink at our many on site restaurants and taverns that blend a historically inspired dining experience with today’s evolved tastes. Each year over 5 million people visit Williamsburg and another 20 million engage with us digitally.