General
line cook
What does line cook mean?
The workhorse of any restaurant kitchen. Owns a single station — sauté, grill, fry, pasta — and is responsible for every plate that touches it during a shift. Below sous chef, above prep. The job Bourdain immortalised: hot, fast, physical, unforgiving.
"She started as a line cook on garde manger and worked her way up to chef de cuisine in four years."
Frequently asked questions
What does line cook mean?
A line cook is the cook who mans a single station on the hot line during service.
How do you use line cook in a sentence?
"We need another line cook on the grill tonight" — the kitchen is short a station cook for the dinner rush.
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