Kitchen Cook
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Testarossa Winery
San Jose, IL, US
Summary
The Kitchen Cook will execute seasonal menu items for corporate and social events while managing ingredient inventory and stocking. They will provide support across various kitchen areas including event line execution, wine bar prep, and baking.
Job Description
Description
The Testarossa Winery culinary team caters our onsite corporate and social events with Seasonal Farm-to-Table California Cuisine with world influences at a fine dining level, utilizing the highest quality ingredients available to us, to pair with our high-quality wines (over 1,900 90+ point scores). They recently won a certificate of recognition from “The Confrerie de la Chaine des Rotisseurs” the world’s oldest, largest, most prestigious food and wine society!
Benefits we offer!
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with a match!
- 50% off wine and many more winery discounts!
- Paid sick time
- Employee referral program
- A beautiful historic work environment with passionate and fun colleagues!
What the Kitchen Cook does!
As a part-time Kitchen Cook, you’ll execute seasonal menu items designed around world class Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays for corporate, social and club events at the winery. Working at our offsite kitchen in San Jose, the day to day may include:
- Prepping and cooking menu items according to instruction and support from the executive and sous chefs
- Labeling, stocking, and organizing ingredients to sanitation and food safety guidelines
- Managing ingredients and inventory; communicating and reporting to the executive and sous chefs
- Providing support in the following areas: events line execution, wine bar food prep, pastry/baking prep, and porter
Requirements
As a Kitchen Cook, you will bring:
- 1+ year of kitchen experience or equivalent culinary education
- ServSafe and/or California Food Handlers Certification
- Ability to adjust and modify recipe quantity
- Safe knife skills and kitchen sanitation knowledge
- Ability to work effectively in a team, be proactive, have a sense of urgency, a positive attitude and effective communication
Work Environment & Physical Requirements
- Ability to work a flexible daytime schedule (Tuesday - Thursday availability required)
- Walk, stand, bend, kneel, and reach frequently for the duration of the shift
- Lift and carry up to 50 pounds frequently
- Handles sharp and hot tools regularly
- Frequently utilizes cleaning chemicals
- Drive to/from the offsite kitchen in San Jose to the Winery in Los Gatos, as needed
Testarossa produces world-class Chardonnay and Pinot Noir in the historic Novitiate Winery of Los Gatos where we blend centuries-old winemaking techniques with state-of-the-art technology.
Testarossa’s location at the historic Novitiate Winery in the heart of Silicon Valley, California is a state of the art working winery. The old stone cellars and beautiful grounds of the state’s fourth oldest continuously operating winery house provide an amazing venue for private events.
Situated 55 miles south of San Francisco in the town of Los Gatos, Testarossa produces today about 30,000 twelve-bottle cases each year and has consistently produced more than 1,000 different wines earning Outstanding scores of 90+ points.
Rob and Diana Jensen’s passion for fine wine and food lead to the development of Testarossa Winery. They met while Electrical Engineering students at Santa Clara University. While both went on to pursue careers in high tech, a weekend winemaking hobby eventually turned into the dream of owning a winery in 1993. This was possible due to Rob’s twenty-year high tech career in sales and marketing.
In 2018, they celebrated 25 years of living the dream.
Since 2000, Rob and Diana Jensen have been working closely with Director of Winemaking Bill Brosseau.
The old Novitiate Winery was originally built in 1888 by Jesuit Fathers and Brothers from Santa Clara College (now Santa Clara University); it was intended to help fund their new seminary college, built on the grounds the same year. The term Novitiate means ‘house of the novices’, the name used for seminary students. For nearly 100 years, the Jesuits made altar wines, as well as sweet, fortified wines at the Novitiate Winery.
The original 19th Century, three-floor, gravity-flow winery is still in use today to make Testarossa wines. However, the original structure is now mostly hidden from view by the many expansions the winery went through during the first half of the 20th Century.
Founded
1993
Company size
51-200 employees
Industry
Wine & Spirits
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Los Gatos, California
Testarossa produces world-class Chardonnay and Pinot Noir in the historic Novitiate Winery of Los Gatos where we blend centuries-old winemaking techniques with state-of-the-art technology.
Testarossa’s location at the historic Novitiate Winery in the heart of Silicon Valley, California is a state of the art working winery. The old stone cellars and beautiful grounds of the state’s fourth oldest continuously operating winery house provide an amazing venue for private events.
Situated 55 miles south of San Francisco in the town of Los Gatos, Testarossa produces today about 30,000 twelve-bottle cases each year and has consistently produced more than 1,000 different wines earning Outstanding scores of 90+ points.
Rob and Diana Jensen’s passion for fine wine and food lead to the development of Testarossa Winery. They met while Electrical Engineering students at Santa Clara University. While both went on to pursue careers in high tech, a weekend winemaking hobby eventually turned into the dream of owning a winery in 1993. This was possible due to Rob’s twenty-year high tech career in sales and marketing.
In 2018, they celebrated 25 years of living the dream.
Since 2000, Rob and Diana Jensen have been working closely with Director of Winemaking Bill Brosseau.
The old Novitiate Winery was originally built in 1888 by Jesuit Fathers and Brothers from Santa Clara College (now Santa Clara University); it was intended to help fund their new seminary college, built on the grounds the same year. The term Novitiate means ‘house of the novices’, the name used for seminary students. For nearly 100 years, the Jesuits made altar wines, as well as sweet, fortified wines at the Novitiate Winery.
The original 19th Century, three-floor, gravity-flow winery is still in use today to make Testarossa wines. However, the original structure is now mostly hidden from view by the many expansions the winery went through during the first half of the 20th Century.
Founded
1993
Company size
51-200 employees
Industry
Wine & Spirits
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Los Gatos, California
