Our Pastry 1 Cooks are the sweethearts of our hotel! Entrusted with preparing breads and pastries, including preparing dough and fillings, proofing, baking and decorating. Though skillfully trained, they never lose sight of their ultimate reasonability, to create lifelong memories for our guests.

As a Pastry Cook 1 at The Beverly Hills Hotel, here are just some of the great benefits you will receive:

• Complimentary stays with breakfast included in all 10 Dorchester Collection hotels – stay once a year at each hotel!

• 50% off at bars and restaurants within all of our Dorchester Collection hotels

• World class development opportunities (Service Excellence Training, Diversity Equity Inclusion & Belonging Trainings, Monthly Lunch & Learns)

• Social events throughout the year, including Quarterly Employee Appreciation Day events, Quarterly Employee Awards, Annual End of Year Gala

• Free Meals on Duty 

• Exclusive Access to a discount platform featuring 1000s of retailers

• Competitive Medical, Dental, Vision Benefit

• Competitive retirement scheme

As a Pastry Cook 1 at The Beverly Hills Hotel, your compensation will be $33.20 per hour.

You’ll love what you do and take pride in delighting our guests:

A day in the life of our Pastry Cook 1… it demands high levels of energy in order to keep up. They need consistency even though the days are never alike; and creativity to tackle daily adventures. Listing all of the tasks that our  Pastry 1 Cooks accomplish would be lengthy but the list below is essential to know. 

• Our Pastry 1 Cooks  are responsible for preparing breads and pastries, including preparing dough and fillings, proofing, baking and decorating as appropriate.

• Review production sheet to understand variety of baked goods to be produced daily. Prepare and cook foods according to recipes, quality and presentation standards, and food prep checklists.

• Maintain kitchen logs for food safety program compliance internally and with the State. Keep management informed of excess food items that need to be utilized. Safely and appropriately use baking and measuring tools/equipment/appliances to prepare baked goods.

• Follow and ensure compliance with food safety handling policies and procedures, including personal hygiene. Check to ensure correct temperatures of kitchen appliances and food, and report issues to management. Monitor the quality of food prepared and portions served throughout the shift. 

• Assist Chefs on managing and controlling restaurants and banquets operation all to ensure our guests receives nothing but the best experience.

• Sometimes our guests have special requests involving food allergies, dietary restrictions and  special occasions. Most of these requests are fulfilled by our Pastry 1 Cooks. 

• Our hotels are truly luxury hotels. This requires preventing and correcting the imperfections and blemishes that tend to come up. Our Pastry 1 Cooks are relied upon to report these and work with several other positions to correct. 

• Communication is what keeps our departments running perfectly. Our Pastry 1 Cooks must communicate with other departments and extended hotel team in order to ensure the alignment remains. The items shared are essential. However, to ensure consistency, our Pastry 1 Cooks are provided with specifics on how we care for their department and our hotel.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to  talk, and hear.  The employee frequently is required to walk and stand for up to 8 hours.  Ability to bend, stoop, crouch, use hand, finger and wrist dexterity. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

The items shared are the essence of a day in the life of a Pastry Cook 1, but we’ll make sure you are provided with specifics on how we care for our hotel

• All of our employees are ambassadors of our Vision, Values and culture. Our Pastry 1 Cooks do this with all they do.

• English is the primary language used in our hotel. Our Pastry 1 Cooks must feel comfortable communicating in this language.  

• Attention to detail is critical for our this role.

• We pride in nurturing an environment where Working Together is a must. Our  are our biggest champions of this.

• Our hotels operate nonstop, this require flexibility from everyone on the team.