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Cooks, Short Order

Los Verdes III

Denver, COSeasonal / Full-time$24.78–28/hrSeen 3 days agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$24.78–28/hr
Location
Denver, CO
Schedule
Seasonal / Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Los Verdes III seeks three short-order cooks for a seasonal position in Colorado. Workers will prepare and cook a variety of foods to order, with short preparation times, and may take customer orders and serve patrons. The employer offers 40 hours per week at $24.78–$28.00 per hour. No education or experience is required, and on-the-job training is available.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Short-Order CookingLifting 50 Lbs

Qualifications

No Education RequiredNo Experience Required

Full job description

Job Title: Cooks, Short Order Worker(s) Requested: 3 Start Date 2027-04-01 End Date: 2027-10-31 Area of Intended Employment: Colorado: Arapahoe Work Days: Sun-Sat (09:00 AM - 05:00 PM) Extra Days: Work days may vary Offered Hours per week: 40 Starting Wage Offer: $24.78 - $28.00 Overtime Wage Offer: $37.17 - $42.00 Pay Period: bi-weekly Deductions from pay: A single workweek is used to compute wages due, paid bi-weekly Possible raises, bonuses, or incentives dependent on tenure w/company, experience, or job performance. All deductions required by law will be deducted from workers' pay. Employer Provided Housing: None Employer Offered Benefits: None Job Requirements: No education/no experience required. On-the-job training available. Overtime may be available. Possible weekend work. Lift 50 lbs. May perform drug screening, E-Verify, or Background Check (Post-Hire). Job Duties: Prepare and cook to order a variety of foods that require only a short preparation time. May take orders from customers and serve patrons at counters or tables. Employer Provided Daily Transportation: Employer will not provide daily transportation. Inbound & Outbound Transportation: Employer will provide workers at no charge all tools, supplies & equipment required to perform the job. The employer is responsible for paying for all visa and border crossing fees. Employer is responsible for paying for all inbound transportation and hotel costs from the place of recruitment to the employer's place of business in the first workweek of employment to the extent that shifting such costs to the employees (either directly or indirectly) would effectively not bring the workers' wages below the FLSA minimum wage. Employer will provide or pay for charter bus services or other modes of transportation to groups of H-2B or U.S. workers or will permit workers to select any means of transportation they choose and reimburse workers at no less than the most economical and reasonable common carrier transportation charges for the distances involved. The remainder of inbound transportation, meals, and hotel expenses to be reimbursed to the worker at the 50% point of the contract. As per FLSA requirements, daily meal subsistence is paid. Outbound transportation and subsistence will be provided/paid by the employer where the worker completes the work contract period, or is terminated without cause, and no subsequent H-2B employment is available to the place the worker originally departed to work, except where the worker will not return due to subsequent employment with another employer. Inbound & Outbound Subsistence Rate($): 16.78 or 68.00 p/day with receipts. Qualified applicants are to inquire about the job op directly to Arapahoe/Douglas Works Workforce Center, Located at 6974 South Lima Street, Centennial Colorado 80112. Call (303) 636-1160 or go online to https://www.connectingcolorado.com. Email resume to Mathew at [email protected] for Los Verdes III. This ad is being placed concurrently with an H-2B application.

How this job compares

Set against the 724 open Cook jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$24.78–28/hr
  • US median$18–21/hr171 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $26.39/hr, is 33% above the US median midpoint ($20/hr) — in the top quarter of Cook hourly ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 11 open Cook jobs in Colorado and 724 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most across the US
Experience
Cook postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 3 years (115 postings).
Education
9 of the 724 open Cook jobs (1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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