Pizza Cook job description template
Pizza cooks make dough, stretch and top pies, and run the oven so every pizza comes out with the same crust and bake. In a small pizzeria they often make wings, salads and subs too, and help with phone orders. A strong post names your style, such as New York, Neapolitan or Detroit, your oven type and how busy weekend nights get.
Pizza Cook
Part-timeYour Company is hiring a pizza cook to help us make great pies every day. You'll mix and portion dough, prep toppings, stretch and build pizzas to our specs, and keep the oven moving during the dinner rush. You'll also make sides like wings, salads and subs. Experience is a plus, but we'll teach a dependable person our dough and our way of doing things. If you take pride in a pizza that looks and tastes right every time, apply.
What you’ll do
- Mix, divide, ball and proof dough to our recipe, and track dough levels so we never run short
- Stretch or press dough by hand to the right size and thickness without tearing
- Sauce, cheese and top pizzas using our portion guides and build charts
- Load, rotate and pull pizzas from the oven, watching color and bake time on every pie
- Slice, box and label orders, double-checking toppings against the ticket
- Prep toppings, wings, salads and subs, and keep the make line stocked during service
- Clean the oven, make line and dough mixer, and close down the kitchen at night
- Keep meats, cheese and prepped toppings cold, covered and dated
What we’re looking for
- Able to learn to stretch dough consistently and work quickly during a rush
- Careful with portion sizes and order accuracy
- Able to stand for long shifts, work next to a hot oven and lift dough tubs and cheese cases up to 50 lbs
- Available evenings and weekends, including Friday and Saturday nights
- A food handler card if our county or state requires one, or willing to get one
Nice to have
- Experience at a pizzeria or on a restaurant line
- Experience with a deck, conveyor, brick or wood-fired oven
- Comfortable answering phones and taking orders when the counter is busy
Schedule
Part-time, mostly afternoon and evening shifts through close, with Friday and Saturday nights required. More hours are available for cooks who want them.
What we offer
- Free pizza on every shift
- Paid training on our dough, recipes and oven
- Flexible scheduling around school or another job
- Room to grow into a kitchen lead or shift manager
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Pizza Cook our company is hiring a pizza cook to help us make great pies every day. You'll mix and portion dough, prep toppings, stretch and build pizzas to our specs, and keep the oven moving during the dinner rush. You'll also make sides like wings, salads and subs. Experience is a plus, but we'll teach a dependable person our dough and our way of doing things. If you take pride in a pizza that looks and tastes right every time, apply. What you’ll do • Mix, divide, ball and proof dough to our recipe, and track dough levels so we never run short • Stretch or press dough by hand to the right size and thickness without tearing • Sauce, cheese and top pizzas using our portion guides and build charts • Load, rotate and pull pizzas from the oven, watching color and bake time on every pie • Slice, box and label orders, double-checking toppings against the ticket • Prep toppings, wings, salads and subs, and keep the make line stocked during service • Clean the oven, make line and dough mixer, and close down the kitchen at night • Keep meats, cheese and prepped toppings cold, covered and dated What we’re looking for • Able to learn to stretch dough consistently and work quickly during a rush • Careful with portion sizes and order accuracy • Able to stand for long shifts, work next to a hot oven and lift dough tubs and cheese cases up to 50 lbs • Available evenings and weekends, including Friday and Saturday nights • A food handler card if our county or state requires one, or willing to get one Nice to have • Experience at a pizzeria or on a restaurant line • Experience with a deck, conveyor, brick or wood-fired oven • Comfortable answering phones and taking orders when the counter is busy Schedule Part-time, mostly afternoon and evening shifts through close, with Friday and Saturday nights required. More hours are available for cooks who want them. What we offer • Free pizza on every shift • Paid training on our dough, recipes and oven • Flexible scheduling around school or another job • Room to grow into a kitchen lead or shift manager
Screening questions for a pizza cook
Ask these on the application form to sort applicants quickly. They’re added automatically when you post this template.
- Are you available to work Friday and Saturday nights?Yes / No · required
- Have you made pizza professionally? Tell us where and what kind of oven you used.Short answer · required
- How do you keep up when a big wave of orders comes in at once?Paragraph
Pizza Cook interview questions
- What style of pizza have you made, and how did the dough process work there?
- How do you tell when a pizza is done, and what do you do if the bottom browns before the top?
- A dozen orders come in at once on a Friday night. How do you work through them?
- The dough is cold and keeps springing back when you stretch it. What do you do?
- A customer calls to say their pizza had the wrong toppings. What would you do to keep that from happening again?
- What does a properly closed-down pizza kitchen look like at the end of the night?
- Which shifts can you reliably work each week?
Tips for hiring a pizza cook
- Have candidates stretch and top a couple of pies on a paid trial shift. Within minutes you'll see their hands, their speed and how closely they follow your portions.
- Say which oven you use in the post. Cooks used to conveyor ovens and cooks used to deck or wood-fired ovens bring different skills.
- Your dough is your product, so make the dough routine part of training from the first week and hire someone dependable enough to come in early when you need more made.
- Look at your delivery drivers and counter staff. Many already know the menu and would like to learn the oven.