The Cook is responsible for planning, preparing and cooking food items to ensure the highest quality service and 
experience for our guests. The Cook ensures proper food handling, sanitation and food storage procedures while 
keeping the kitchen organized and running efficiently. Cooks follow recipes and make adjustments based on 
customer requests, communicate with wait staff and prepare dishes to make an attractive presentation for each meal.  
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 
• Ensures that outlets are sanitized, cleaned, stocked, and setup correctly at start of and throughout the shift while 
adhering to sanitation, safety, and food and beverage control policies.   
• Ensure ingredients and final products are fresh. 
• Assist with creation of menu items.  
• Operate kitchen equipment such as broilers, ovens, fryers, and grills.  
• Assist supervisor in monthly food and beverage inventories and reconciliations. 
• Responsible for understanding and operating the POS system. 
• Obtain certifications to meet state and local government regulations.  
• Maintain high standards of professionalism, customer service, quality and cleanliness.  
• Be familiar with fire extinguisher locations and know how to operate them in the restaurant/kitchen.  
• Ensures safe handling of chemicals in accordance with department standards and utilizes proper personal 
protective equipment (PPE) when appropriate.  
• Occasionally serve food. 
Non-Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 
• This job description is not intended to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or 
responsibilities. Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or 
without notice. 
Required Education and Experience: 
• Conversant in the English language 
• Strong decision-making ability 
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and delegation skills with ability to manage confrontation 
• Ability to motivate, lead and develop a team 
• Strong working knowledge of operational procedures 
• Comfortable in a fast-paced and high-pressure environment. 
• Motivated, goal oriented and results driven 
• Ability to maintain confidentiality 
Food and Beverage Cook 
8/1/2025 
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Kampgrounds of America Job Description 
• Able to work nights, weekends, and holidays 
Preferred Education and Experience: 
Physical Demands and Working Conditions: 
• Work is performed primarily indoors. 
• Must be able to lift and carry up to 25 pounds regularly, lift or move up to 50 pounds occasionally with 
assistance. 
• Ability to bend, stoop, kneel, crouch, climb, push, pull, reach overhead. 
• Use of repetitive motion, standing, bending, sitting, lifting, and walking, carrying trays. 
• Significant standing and walking for entire shifts 
• Fast-paced, noisy, and sometimes crowded, often with exposure to extreme temperatures (kitchen heat or freezer 
cold). 
• Risk of burns from hot equipment, cuts from knives, and slips on wet or greasy floors; requires wearing PPE 
(slip-resistant shoes, gloves, masks) 
• Ability to work in spaces where common allergens may be handled or present 
• Will experience occasional interruptions and shifting priorities. 
• Valid driver’s license required, this position may be expected to drive a motorized vehicle which requires close 
and distance vision, sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, etc. 

Site rent for workampers is $92.30 per pay period per site, not per person

Uniform shirt and hat provided.

25% off all merchandise, cafe and propane refills.

$1/hr for every worked end of season bonus paid on final check upon completion of your contract dates

Free employee laundry room

Spend your days hiking Cadillac Mountain, exploring rocky shorelines and discovering why this corner of New England has captivated visitors for generations. At Bar Harbor / Oceanside KOA Holiday, you are camping right on the coast with Acadia National Park about 10 minutes away. We are located on the quiet side of Mount Desert Island, so you can experience peaceful mornings, spectacular sunsets and starry nights between adventures — plus on-site perks like our Acadia shuttle service, fresh lobster dinners and waterfront views from many campsites.