Job Description

Wegmans Gourmet Line Cook at Wegmans Food Markets summary:

The Wegmans Gourmet Line Cook specializes in preparing sushi and Japanese cuisine in a high-volume, open kitchen environment. This role requires proficiency in knife skills, food safety, and quality assurance to deliver consistent, high-quality dishes while maintaining efficient service. Employees benefit from competitive pay, flexible scheduling, comprehensive health and wellness programs, and opportunities for personal and professional growth.

Schedule: Full time
Availability: Morning, Afternoon, Evening (Includes Weekends).
Age Requirement: Must be 18 years or older
Location: Pittsford, NY
Address: 3220 Monroe Ave
Pay: $17.50 - $18.50 / hour
Job Posting: 05/27/2025
Job Posting End: 06/27/2025
Job ID: R0246950

Our mission is to provide incredible service and a one-of-a-kind dining experience for our guests. As a Sushi Line Cook, you will develop and use your food passion to produce unique sushi offerings in a high-volume, open kitchen restaurant. As you continue to learn, grow, and fuel your passion for food, you’ll find the possibilities at Wegmans are endless.

Responsibilities

• Ensure incredible service is provided by effectively handling a variety of tasks
• Follow proper recipes, knife skills and cooking techniques to provide consistent ingredients and finished products
• Balance prep work while ensuring guests meals are prepared in a timely manner while maintaininghigh standards
• Possess an understanding of ingredients used and menu offerings, sharing knowledge with restaurant team members

Requirements

• 2 or more years’ experience working as a sushi line cook
• Experience making sushi and other types of Japanese cuisine
• Knife skills
• Food safety and quality assurance knowledge
• Enthusiasm for and knowledge of relevant ingredients and cuisine

Preferred Qualifications

• H ighly proficient with cutting and working with whole fish , including handling sashimi-quality fish
• Confident working in an open kitchen
• Experience preparing sushi in a high-volume environment

At Wegmans, we’ve long believed we can achieve our goals only if we first fulfill the needs of our people. Putting our people first and offering competitive pay and a variety of benefits & perks is just the start of what it means to work at Wegmans.

Whether through premium pay for working overtime, on Sundays or on recognized holidays, offering industry-leading health care coverage and wellness programs to support physical, financial, and emotional well-being, or paid time off (PTO) to help you balance work and life, we’ve got something for everyone.

And because we care about the wellbeing and success of every person, we recognize each person has their own unique scheduling needs. We’re proud to offer flexibility in scheduling so our employees can prioritize what is most important to them. Our large, high-volume stores and 24x7 operations allow for personalized schedules that balance an employee’s individual needs with the needs of our business and each department.

Comprehensive benefits*

• Paid time off (PTO) to help you balance your personal and work life
• Higher premium pay rates for working overtime, on Sundays, or on a recognized holiday
• Health care benefits that provide a high level of coverage at a low cost to you
• Retirement plan with both a profit-sharing and 401(k) match
• A generous scholarship program to help employees meet their educational goals
• LiveWell Employee & Family program to support your emotional, work-life and financial wellness
• Exclusive discounts on electronics, entertainment, gym memberships, travel and more!
• And more!

***Certain eligibility requirements must be satisfied and offerings may differ based upon area or the company and/or position.

For 25 years in a row, our employees have put us on the FORTUNE magazine’s list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For®. Discover what it means to work for a family-owned, mission-driven, values-based company that believes in caring, respect, empowerment, high standards and making a difference in the community. Because with a family-like atmosphere of shared support, leaders who have your best interest at heart and growth as part of everything we do, Wegmans is the place for you to do what you love—and love what you do.

Keywords:

sushi chef, line cook, Japanese cuisine, knife skills, food safety, high-volume kitchen, food preparation, customer service, restaurant cook, Wegmans

Job Tags

Holiday work, Full time, Flexible hours, Sunday, Day shift, Afternoon shift,

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