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Line Cook Development Kitchen

DoorDash
Redwood City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 22 Sept 2025
💰 $42,000/yr

About the role

About the Team

The DoorDash Kitchens team is a part of DoorDash's New Delivery Models and launches and operates shared 'dark kitchens' for restaurateurs looking to grow their business. This is a small but mighty team helping scale DoorDash Kitchens.

About the Role

You’ll work in our development kitchen testing recipes for new concepts, while maintaining a clean kitchen area, and organization in our DoorDash operated kitchen. You will collect, clean, and distribute cookware throughout your shift, and set the example for keeping the kitchen spotless. You will receive and organize inventory, and support the development team with daily food prep and projects. You will help maintain general kitchen pars, report shortages and inform the manager when items need to be reordered. You will maintain kitchen cleanliness, comply with food sanitation requirements by properly handling food and ensuring correct storage, and clean and sanitize cooking surfaces at the end of the shift. You will report to the Executive Development Chef. 

You’re excited about this opportunity because you...

  • Love to work on a team and contribute to team culture
  • Believe no project is too big or small
  • Are cuisine-curious and love to cook across multiple culinary concepts 
  • Want to work in new restaurant models including delivery-only environments.

We’re excited about you because…

  • You have 1 year or more experience as a dishwasher,  prep cook or line cook  in a high volume kitchen environment including fast-casual, QSR, and from-scratch restaurants
  • You have experience receiving and organizing restaurant inventory using the FIFO method
  • You have experience preparing food from scratch, making hot and cold sauces, and have basic knife skills
  • You are ServeSafe certified (or are willing to become certified) and you take initiative to keep the whole kitchen clean, if you see something that requires attention you take action, you don’t leave it for the next person 
  • You are highly organized, work well under pressure and execute tasks with speed, accuracy and attention to detail
  • You are keen on learning new things

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Compensation

Actual compensation within the pay range listed below will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior relevant experience, and specific work location. Base salary is localized according to employee work location. 

DoorDash cares about you and your overall well-being. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to all regular employees, which includes a 401(k) plan with employer matching, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, wellness benefits, commuter benefits match, paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act). DoorDash also offers medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, disability and basic life insurance, family-forming assistance, and a mental health program, among others.

To learn more about our benefits, visit our careers page here.

See below for paid time off details:

  • For salaried roles: flexible paid time off/vacation, plus 80 hours of paid sick time per year.
  • For hourly roles: vacation accrued at about 1 hour for every 25.97 hours worked (e.g. about 6.7 hours/month if working 40 hours/week; about 3.4 hours/month if working 20 hours/week), and paid sick time accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked (e.
Base Pay:$21$21 USD

About DoorDash

At DoorDash, our mission to empower local economies shapes how our team members move quickly, learn, and reiterate in order to make impactful decisions that display empathy for our range of users—from Dashers to merchant partners to consumers. We are a technology and logistics company tha

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