About Us

Royal Beef is a family-owned Toronto grocery store and butcher shop built on good food, quality ingredients, and a tradition of doing things right. Since 1985, we’ve been bringing our customers quality meats, specialty groceries, deli products, and homemade prepared foods made with care.

Our Back of House is where many of our signature products come together. From our tourtières and lasagna to meat sauces we make food that reflects who we are: traditional, comforting, well-made, and always evolving.

We’re looking for a hands-on, organized, and experienced Prepared Foods Cook to join our team. This is a key production role for someone who can take ownership of their daily workload, work closely with our Meat Department, and help us continue to build and improve our prepared foods program.

What you’ll do

- Prepare and produce Royal Beef prepared foods including tourtières, lasagna, and other prepared meals and specialty products
- Work hand-in-hand with the Meat Department to coordinate cuts, quantities, preparation requirements, and timing
- Plan and manage your daily production from start to finish
- Organize your workload to ensure products are prepared, cooked, assembled, packaged, labelled, and ready when required
- Prepare and cook beef, pork, chicken, and other proteins
- Prepare and work with pasta dough and pastry dough, including rolling, shaping, filling, and finishing
- Prepare sauces, fillings, vegetables, and other components from scratch
- Follow established recipes and production standards to maintain consistency in taste, texture, quality, portion size, and presentation
- Use your experience and knowledge to identify opportunities to improve recipes, techniques, presentation, efficiency, and overall product quality
- Bring ideas for new prepared foods and participate in testing and developing new products
- Monitor ingredients, packaging, and production needs and communicate upcoming requirements
- Maintain proper inventory rotation and FIFO practices
- Ensure proper food temperatures, food handling, sanitation,



and storage procedures
- Keep your workstation, equipment, and production areas clean, organized, and food-secure
- Work collaboratively with the Meat Department, retail team, and management

What we’re looking for

- Previous experience in a commercial kitchen, prepared foods, restaurant, catering, bakery, deli, or food production environment
- Strong cooking and food preparation skills, particularly with meats and scratch cooking
- Experience working with both pasta dough and pastry dough
- Strong understanding of cooking techniques and food preparation
- Ability to follow recipes accurately while also understanding how to improve and develop products
- Highly organized with strong time-management skills
- Able to independently plan and manage your own production without constant direction
- Comfortable managing multiple products and production timelines
- Strong knife skills and safe food-handling practices
- Comfortable using commercial kitchen equipment including ovens, mixers, stovetops, and other production equipment
- Detail-oriented with a strong focus on consistency and quality
- Able to communicate clearly and work closely with the Meat Department
- A hands-on, dependable team player who takes pride in their work
- Food Handler Certification is an asset
- Able to lift up to 25 lbs and stand for extended periods
- Flexible availability, including days, evenings, and weekends

About You You are passionate about food and take real pride in what you create. You’re the kind of person who gets excited about making something great, cares about the details,



and wants the food leaving your kitchen to be something you’re proud to put your name on.

You bring energy, experience, and curiosity to your work. You’re organized and able to take ownership of your day, but you’re also a team player who enjoys working alongside others.

You’re always thinking about how to make a product better, more efficient, or more consistent. You’re not afraid to bring ideas to the table, try something new, and you bring a positive attitude and genuine enthusiasm to the team. Apply today. We’d love to hear from you.

Perks of working at Royal Beef

- Employee discount
- Work with a family-owned Toronto business with deep community roots
- Hands-on role with opportunities to contribute ideas and develop products
- Work alongside an experienced Meat Department
- A team-focused, respectful workplace
- Opportunity to grow with our prepared foods program

Equity Statement Royal Beef is committed to creating a welcoming, respectful, and inclusive workplace where everyone is treated with dignity and given an equal opportunity to succeed. We value different backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and skills, and believe our team is stronger because of them.

Royal Beef is committed to fair and equitable employment practices throughout the hiring process and employment relationship. If you require accommodation at any point during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will be happy to work with you to meet your needs.

The purpose of this document is to provide a general summary of the essential responsibilities and qualifications for this position and is not an exhaustive list. Duties, assignments, and other responsibilities may change based on business needs.

Work Location: In-person

Location: 1968 Danforth Ave, Toronto, ON

Pay: $17.60-$22.00 per hour

Expected hours: 25.0 – 36.0 per week

Experience

- pastry and pasta : 2 years (preferred)
- Cooking: 4 years (preferred)
- cooking in a production kitchen : 2 years (preferred)

Work Location: In person

📌 Prepared Foods Cook (Toronto)
🏢 Royal Beef
📍 Toronto