Prep Chef Jobs

Required or preferred licenses and certifications for Prep Chef positions.

The following top skills are often required or desired to land a Prep Chef position

• Back of House
• Baking
• Barbeque
• Breakfast
• Broiling
• Butchering
• Casual Dining
• Communication Skills
• Cookie Making
• Cooking
• Customer Service
• Dessert Making
• Energetic
• First In, First Out
• Food Handling
• Food Preparation
• Food Safety
• Friendliness
• Fryer
• Grilling
• Handling
• Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Point
• Kitchen Equipment Maintenance
• Knife Skills
• Leadership
• Management
• Organization
• Pasta
• Pastry Making
• Personal Training
• Pizza
• Plate Presentation
• Policy Administration
• Policy Development
• Portion Control
• Prep Work
• Presentation
• Quality of Service
• Reading
• Recipe Development
• Regulations
• Retail
• Salads
• Sanitation
• Sauce Making
• Scheduling
• Scratch Cooking
• Seafood
• Set-Up
• Soup Making
• Staff Supervision
• Stocking
• Teamwork
• Training and Development
• Wok

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Top hiring companies for Prep Chef positions

In terms of restaurant management, sustainability is more than just a buzzword or an offshoot of the “farm-to-table” craze.

If you are interested in becoming a chef and are looking for basic information on how to make that dream a reality, read our companion article “How to Become a Chef.” However, if you have already given the idea much thought and simply need a few facts regarding prices, prestige, and programs offered by some of the top culinary schools in the US, you have come to the right place.

Are you considering a career as a private or personal chef? Is there even a difference? These two positions may be synonymous in some circles and require very similar skills, but there is one distinct difference: private chefs are employed by a single client, whereas personal chefs may work for a number of clients at any given time.