Full-Service Restaurant Line Cook | John Wayne Airport

Mission Yogurt is hiring Full-Time Line Cooks for TAPS Fish House & Brewery and Greenleaf Kitchen, located inside John Wayne Airport.

We're looking for experienced full-service restaurant line cooks who know how to work a professional kitchen—not fast food.

If you've successfully worked grill, sauté, and fry stations in a high-volume full-service restaurant and take pride in cooking quality food with consistency and speed, we'd love to meet you.

As a Restaurant Line Cook, you'll prepare menu items to recipe specifications, execute multiple stations during service, maintain food safety standards, and work alongside a talented BOH team to deliver an exceptional guest experience.

Our Ideal Candidate Has Experience At Restaurants Similar To: Full-service casual dining, upscale casual, breweries, steakhouses, seafood restaurants, hotel restaurants, or chef-driven concepts where they've regularly worked grill, sauté, and fry stations.

Pay: $22/hr. + Tips!

Restaurant Line Cook Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, FSA/HSA, and voluntary life, disability, accident, critical illness, hospital, and pet insurance—effective the first of the month after 60 days of full-time employment.
• 401K plus company match*
• Free meal during shifts worked.
• PAID employee parking OR company-paid MTS EcoPass
• Room for professional growth!

Restaurant Line Cook Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of recent line cook experience in a full-service restaurant is required.
• Hands-on experience working grill, sauté, and fry stations during busy meal periods.
• Able to cook multiple menu items simultaneously while maintaining quality, consistency, and ticket times.
• Strong understanding of proper food handling, sanitation, and kitchen safety practices.
• Experience following recipes, portion standards, and plating specifications.
• Able to set up, stock, and break down stations for service.
• Works efficiently in a fast-paced, team-oriented kitchen.
• Takes pride in maintaining a clean, organized workstation throughout each shift.
• Dependable with excellent attendance and a strong work ethic.
• Committed to Mission Yogurt's values of Loyalty, Innovation, Service, Communication, and Flexibility.
• Must be able to pass a required 10-year airport background check.

Please Note: This position is intended for cooks with experience in **full-service restaurant kitchens. Experience limited to fast food, quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, or cafeterias does not meet the experience requirements for this role.

Physical Demands

Must be able to work on your feet for up to 12 hours. Position requires prolonged standing, bending, stooping, twisting, reaching overhead, and lifting products and supplies weighing 20 pounds, and occasional lifting and/or moving up to 50 pounds, as well as repetitive hand and wrist motion.

Mission Yogurt, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal treatment of all employees without regard to race, national origin, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, physical or mental disability, or other basis protected by law. While Mission is committed to following this principle in every facet of employment, all employees share in the responsibility to promote and foster a favorable work environment.