Lead Cook - DoubleTree by Hilton Crystal City
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Description
Here's what you'll do during a typical day:
- Prepare high-quality dishes: Prepare menu items according to designated recipes and quality standards
- Delight our guests: Manage guest orders efficiently while ensuring a positive dining experience
- Execute complex recipes: Maintain a strong knowledge of menu offerings, handle complex recipes, and oversee stations, execution, quality control and inventory checks
- Inspect and finalize plates: Inspect all preparations and dishes ahead of serving to ensure they meet quality and presentation standards
- Maintain a clean and organized workspace: Keep food service stations stocked and sanitary while following proper food handling, storage, and safety protocols
- Manage product and operational needs: Coordinate timing and plating, manage/direct cooks during shifts, assist with inventory checks, ordering, shift briefings and some special features
- Comply with regulatory standards: Maintain compliance with health, safety, sanitation, and alcohol awareness regulations, ensuring the highest standards of guest and team member well-being
Qualifications
What It Takes to Make the Stay
At Hilton, our core values define what it takes to succeed here and guide the qualities we look for in every team member:
A passion for spreading the light and warmth of Hospitality. Acting with Integrity and always doing the right thing. Inspiring others through Leadership. A belief that Teamwork drives the best outcomes. A sense of Ownership and accountability. And a focus on the Now, bringing urgency and discipline to every moment, knowing it can make a lasting impact.
About this role
At DoubleTree by Hilton Crystal City in Arlington, the Lead Cook role centers on executing and overseeing kitchen operations with direct responsibility for food quality, plating standards, and team coordination. You'll prepare dishes to recipe specifications, manage multiple cooking stations, inspect all plates before service, and direct other cooks during shifts. Beyond cooking, you'll handle inventory checks, ordering, shift briefings, and ensure compliance with health, safety, and sanitation regulations.
This position suits someone with strong culinary fundamentals and the ability to lead under pressure. You need hands-on expertise in complex recipes and menu knowledge, plus the organizational skills to keep stations stocked and sanitary while maintaining timing and presentation standards. The role demands both technical precision and interpersonal capability—you're managing people and guest experiences, not just food.
Hilton emphasizes hospitality values and workplace culture, positioning this as a career-building opportunity rather than a standalone shift. If you're an experienced cook ready to step into a leadership capacity within a hotel kitchen environment, this full-time, in-office role offers that transition.
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