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2026 Culinary Entry-level Jobs in New York, NY

If you love preparing food and coming up with delicious new recipes, then an entry-level job in culinary arts is for you. With the right training, you could even become the chef or head cook for a restaurant of your choice. With these positions, you can make a nice $40,630 per year just for doing something you love. Depending on where you work you might be responsible for creating new menu items or for simply following pre-designed recipes and creating standard menu options for diners. In addition to hands-on work with food, people with these jobs in culinary arts act as managers for the general kitchen staff and direct everything that goes on behind the scenes as food is prepared. Whether you have a culinary entry-level job as a chef or choose another position, you should know that you’ll generally have more freedom at independently owned restaurants. With chain restaurants, such as Olive Garden or Applebee’s, you usually have to follow the rules and the recipes set forth by the corporation. With smaller or locally owned restaurants, however, you can often play around with recipes and create your own dishes, something that many chefs enjoy. It is this love for freedom and cooking-creativity that inspires many people to bypass all the typical beginning culinary jobs and to open their own restaurants. If your restaurant is successful and if you’re able to juggle being a chef, a manger, and a business owner, you can enjoy creating your own schedule and earning around $48,130 or more per year.

ALLEGRIA HOTELLong Beach, NY

Cook

HillstoneMultiple Locations

Line Cook

$19-$19

Forty Bear Golf Inc dba Dutch Hollow Country ClubAuburn, NY

cook/chef

The Northport HotelNorthport, NY

Sous Chef

FAIRMONTMultiple Locations

Sous Chef

$1,800-$1,800

GREEK BROTHERS INCFranklin Square, NY

Line Cook

Wildflower FarmsGardiner, NY

Pastry Chef

$90,000-$90,000 per year

Whistling KettleMultiple Locations

Line Cook

MCBB RESTAURANT GROUP CORPWantagh, NY

Head Chef

The Northport HotelNorthport, NY

Line Cook

Savory HospitalityNew York, NY

Cook

MARCUS SAMUELSSON RESTAURANT GROUPNew York, NY

Pastry Cook

Savory HospitalityNew York, NY

Porter

Wildflower FarmsMultiple Locations

Barista

Alitalia PizzeriaWest Babylon, NY

Chef

Jake’s SteakhouseEast Meadow, NY

Chef

Royal Rib House NYCBrooklyn, NY

Line Cook

WEST AVE CHICKENSaratoga Springs, NY

Line Cook

Athens Restaurant, Harlem Road, Buffalo, NY, USACheektowaga, NY

Line Cook

The Village InnGrand Island, NY

Line Cook

Pequa Bowling Alley CorpMassapequa, NY

Line Cook

The Bayview Tavern LLCSeaford, NY

Line Cook

Vicmar Inc. dba Main St Pizza CompanyBatavia, NY

Line Cook

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