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Who We Are: We are Monuts, a high-volume, 99% from scratch restaurant and bakery located on Ninth Street in Durham. We have been in business for 12 years and are open Tuesday through Saturday serving breakfast, lunch, baked goods and coffee. Our line cooks cook every item to order through busy brunch shifts and keep our from-scratch kitchen stocked and prepped. We are professional, flexible, detail-oriented and really good at our jobs. We seek excellence, not perfection, and are committed to not just maintaining the quality and consistency of our products, but improving them.
What We Need: We are currently accepting applications for full-time line cooks in our savory kitchen. We are a busy kitchen. We have been successful in training folks from many different backgrounds in the kitchen, including cooks from fine dining restaurants, burrito shops, high volume catering kitchens, red sauce Italian joints, and everything in between. Although some previous kitchen experience is required, we feel confident that we can train any willing new hire to work through an 800-cover brunch service. The savory kitchen at Monuts is small but mighty, and is typically composed of five full-time line cooks, two full-time dishwashers, two full-time prep cooks, and one chef de cuisine. In a diverse team like ours, attitude, professionalism and the ability to work as one collective unit is crucial to meeting each day’s output goals and to maintaining a sense of levity and good humor amidst a sometimes chaotic workload.
A Day in the Life of a Monuts Line Cook: Line cooks work a mix of opening (6AM – 2PM) and closing (8:30AM – 4:30PM) shifts each day, depending on personal availability. Line cooks work our hot line or cold station and often work their stations solo during slower weekday shifts. On Fridays and Saturdays, it’s all hands on deck with 3 cooks on the hot line and 2 on the cold station. No matter what’s in store each day, we work clean, stay organized, and leave the kitchen looking spotless for the next day. When not working a station, our line cooks prep everything on our menu from scratch—our mustard, mayonnaise, and everything in between is made in house. Even if you’ve never worked in a from-scratch environment before, we have the skills and training available to help you succeed. We believe that everyone has something to learn and something to teach. We do not take each other, our backgrounds or our skillsets for granted.
Training: All new-hires will complete a 3-month, fully-paid probationary term during which time they will begin training on all stations in the savory kitchen. As a team member, you will receive regular feedback designed toward building skills and familiarity with how Monuts operates. It is our hope that at the end of 3 months, all new hires feel confident and well-trained and are excited to move out of the probationary period into a long-term regular position on our staff!
<>Why You Should Work Here: We are nice. We like to learn. And, we've tried really hard to build a collaborative environment that leaves space for individuals to be seen, heard and supported.
The hiring range for this position is $18 to 21 per hour. This is a full-time position, working 38 to 40 hours per week, with time-and-a-half for any hours over 40 in one week. We are a tip-free restaurant, so your wage is guaranteed every week no matter how busy or slow we are.
After one year, employees join our profit sharing program. In 2023, profit sharing added more than $3.50 per hour in addition to their base wage. Our hourly line cooks are bringing home $45,000 to $52,500 per year with no overtime, no Sundays, no nights, and no other employees to manage.
All employees receive up to $225/month for health insurance or health-related expenses
We offer a retirement plan with a 3% company match
Full time employees receive 100% holiday pay for our Thanksgiving and Christmas closures (five days off for each), in addition to paid time off.
We are closed day time only and closed Sundays and Mondays. This means you are guaranteed no nights and Sundays and Monday off every week.
Please reply to this posting with an up-to-date resume and a short (2 sentences or less) description about why you may be a good fit for Monuts.
