Prep Chef Jobs in California

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Top hiring companies in your area for Prep Chef positions

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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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.