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Cook Career Profiles

The job of a cook is to prepare food. A cook can work in a fast food restaurant, a diner, a family restaurant, or a fine dining establishment. Cooks can also work in hotels, on cruise ships, and even in private homes. Anywhere where a professional must prepare food, a cook can find a job.

Cooks in fancier establishments generally have some professional training, such as a culinary degree. Some learn on-the-job, beginning in smaller restaurants or in positions that require less skill and working their way up. Cooks often work long hours in hot kitchens and must use knives, handle hot pots, manage hot grease, and use hot stove and ovens. Therefore, this work can be dangerous and physically demanding. Hours are often irregular, with cooks working weekends, holidays, and evenings. A cook may report directly to a chef and follow instructions or may work alone. Cooks can work for others or open their own establishments to have greater flexibility in the type of cooking they do.

If you think becoming a cook may be a career you are interested in, there is no better way to understand the profession than to read a career profile prepared by interviewing people in the business. Browse the career profiles below to learn more about working as a cook and to see if this profession is right for you.

9 Career Job Profile Results for Cook:

Cook Job Profile: Female, age 32, from Michigan city, IN (ID# 5204)

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I make omelets and other breakfast foods, I bake cookies and cakes, maintain the desert bar, and a prep cook.

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Cook Job Profile: Female, age 48, from Rural Retreat, VA (ID# 3094)

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cook breakfast and lunch

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Head Cook Job Profile: Male, age 48, from Baltimore, NY (ID# 4464)

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I open the kitchen get out supply's have food ready when the rest of the crew show up to start cooking then i start cooking then we load up the food and deliver and when we get back I close down a...

Cashier/Cook Job Profile: Female, age 44, from Flatgap, KY (ID# 4485)

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run cash register, cook, clean.

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Pastry And Prep Chef Job Profile: Female, age 35, from Philadelphia, PA (ID# 4057)

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In the a.m. I prep the salads, burger fixin's, ect. for the chef's in the p.m. In the afternoon, I bake and prepare that evenings desserts.

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Cashier, Cook. Job Profile: Female, age 20, from Plainsboro, NJ (ID# 2719)

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making sandwiches, bagels, wraps, slicing meat/vegetables/cheese/etc, cleaning the bathroom, sweeping, cleaning off the bagel counter and cashier.

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Salad Bar Associate Job Profile: Female, age 42, from new cumberland, PA (ID# 944)

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set up salad bar, make trays, make fruit baskets, prep.

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Cashier/Cook Job Profile: Male, age 25, from San Leandro, CA (ID# 1083)

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I basically do everything depending on the day. I cook burgers, make fries, work the cash register, and even some janitorial work.

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Cook Job Profile: Female, age 36, from Cherry Hill, NJ (ID# 896)

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Ordering and preparing food for 100 preschool kids

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