Prep Cook/Porter, Commissary Kitchen (No Weekends/ Holidays) - Washington, DC

Prep Cook/Porter - Commissary Kitchen

About the Role

The Prep Cook/Porter is an essential part of our commissary kitchen team, helping prepare, package, and distribute fresh, culturally relevant meals that are delivered daily to students across our partner schools.

The role offers stable hours, day hours and weekends and holidays off.

The ideal candidate has experience in a high-volume kitchen, is reliable, and has a “can-do” attitude. The critical functions of the position include understanding daily production menus, cooking scratch made delicious dishes, serving food on a tight schedule, and helping to ensure the kitchen is always exceeding DOH standards.

Critical Functions

• Collaborate with the team to prioritize daily menu item production
• Uphold kitchen cleanliness, ensuring it exceeds DOH standards at all times
• Cook, cool, and plate food following Red Rabbit’s recipes and DOH food safety regulations
• Efficiently wash, sanitize, and store dishes, utensils, and cooking equipment, keeping the dish
• area organized
• Pack and distribute meals to students in compliance with portion sizes and school
• schedules
• Accurately count and record food produced to maintain compliance and minimize waste
• Read and interpret menu production sheets to determine daily food preparation
• requirements
• Represent Red Rabbit’s values professionally when interacting with school staff and
• students
• Demonstrate physical capability to stoop, bend, lift, and carry 50+ lbs, and stand for extended
• periods
• Complete tasks in a timely and hospitable manner

Skills & Requirements

1+ years professional culinary experience in a fast paced role in the service industry (i.e. restaurants), high volume kitchen production (i.e. commissary kitchen), or in a similar cafeteria role (i.e. schools/hospitals)

Demonstrated knowledge of proper food safety and sanitation practices

Must be familiar with using and maintaining industrial kitchen equipment

Able to self motivate and to be organized

Ability to function well within a team and work calmly and efficiently in a fast moving environment

Have a great attitude and contribute to a positive working environment

Share our passion for improving nutrition and health in schools

Must be able to read and write in English. Bilingual (English and Spanish) a plus.

Must be able to lift 50 lbs on a regular basis

Job Type

Full Time

Typical Hours

Monday - Friday 6:00 AM to 2:00 PM (hours may change)

Location

: Washington, DC

Reports

to

: Head Chef

Compensation

: $18.50 - $19.50/hour

Benefits

Generous PTO (most major holidays off)

Health, Dental, Vision Insurance

401k Option

Paid Professional Development

Education Reimbursement Opportunities

Paid Family Leave

Paid Parental Leave

Worker’s Compensation Insurance Coverage

About Red Rabbit

Founded in 2005, Red Rabbit is an MWBE-certified K–12 school food management company on a mission to transform school dining. We believe that serving diverse, high-quality meals to children in urban communities is about more than food, it’s about dignity, representation, and opportunity.

Our professionally trained chefs work in commissaries and onsite in school cafeterias, preparing scratch-made, culturally relevant meals that reflect the heritage and lived experiences of the students we serve. We don’t just deliver food...we become part of the school community.

Today, Red Rabbit prepares and serves millions of meals each year across the Greater New York region, New Jersey, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC.

If you’re passionate about food, community, and making an impact every day, we’d love to meet you.

Red Rabbit is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, or sexual orientation.