Culinary specialist vs cook supervisor

The differences between culinary specialists and cook supervisors can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. Additionally, a cook supervisor has an average salary of $41,118, which is higher than the $37,641 average annual salary of a culinary specialist.

The top three skills for a culinary specialist include kitchen equipment, culinary and food safety. The most important skills for a cook supervisor are food handling, food service, and portion control.

Culinary specialist vs cook supervisor overview

	Culinary Specialist	Cook Supervisor
Yearly salary	$37,641	$41,118
Hourly rate	$18.10	$19.77
Growth rate	15%	16%
Number of jobs	41,696	183,387
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	High School Diploma, 37%	High School Diploma, 36%
Average age	37	38
Years of experience	-	4

Culinary specialist vs cook supervisor salary

Culinary specialists and cook supervisors have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Culinary Specialist	Cook Supervisor
Average salary	$37,641	$41,118
Salary range	Between $23,000 And $60,000	Between $27,000 And $62,000
Highest paying City	-	New York, NY
Highest paying state	-	New York
Best paying company	-	Chelsea Jewish Lifecare
Best paying industry	-	Health Care

Differences between culinary specialist and cook supervisor education

There are a few differences between a culinary specialist and a cook supervisor in terms of educational background:

	Culinary Specialist	Cook Supervisor
Most common degree	High School Diploma, 37%	High School Diploma, 36%
Most common major	Culinary Arts	Culinary Arts
Most common college	-	-

Culinary specialist vs cook supervisor demographics

Here are the differences between culinary specialists' and cook supervisors' demographics:

	Culinary Specialist	Cook Supervisor
Average age	37	38
Gender ratio	Male, 71.8% Female, 28.2%	Male, 55.4% Female, 44.6%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 11.7% Unknown, 5.2% Hispanic or Latino, 17.4% Asian, 7.0% White, 57.7% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.9%	Black or African American, 8.9% Unknown, 4.5% Hispanic or Latino, 16.5% Asian, 7.7% White, 61.3% American Indian and Alaska Native, 1.0%
LGBT Percentage	10%	6%

Differences between culinary specialist and cook supervisor duties and responsibilities

Culinary specialist example responsibilities.

Manage and lead a HACCP plan for the restaurant.
Manage user securities, roles, database backups, restore, fail-over management for SQL cluster.
Help maintain haccp records, and all sanitation rules.
Set up the batter cart, fryers, and chicken holding cabinet and collect all necessary small wares.
Design and fabricate menu items for guests with gluten sensitivitys, sulfates allergies, and low fat constraints.
Provide meals for patients with food allergies, food sensitivities, diseases and those revolving from surgical procedures, and pediatrics.

Cook supervisor example responsibilities.

Manage food expo; facilitate food temp logs; creation of menu specials; management and supervision of production staff
Assist culinary director in assign duties relate to kitchen operations.
Work with multiple POS systems by entering and processing orders.
Organize and put away inventory when it arrive using HACCP guidelines.
Cook all orders that are enter in pos system, enter orders on pos system, clean kitchen when closing.
Have ServSafe food sanitation certification.

Culinary specialist vs cook supervisor skills

Common culinary specialist skills

Kitchen Equipment, 16%
Culinary, 16%
Food Safety, 12%
Patients, 11%
Cleanliness, 7%
Food Storage, 4%

Common cook supervisor skills

Food Handling, 33%
Food Service, 26%
Portion Control, 9%
Kitchen Equipment, 5%
HACCP, 5%
Meal Preparation, 4%

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