Now Hiring: Experienced Cooks Hudson’s Restaurant & Catering | Hudson, Ohio Home of Nightmare Before Blitzen’s, Blitzen’s & O’Blitzen’s Pop-Up Bars Full-Time & Part-Time Opportunities Competitive Pay Based on Experience Closed Sundays & Most Major Holidays Growth & Leadership Opportunities Love Cooking? Come Grow With Us. Hudson’s Restaurant & Catering is looking for experienced, creative, and dependable cooks who take pride in their craft and want to be part of a kitchen where their skills and ideas are valued. We’re a family-owned, chef-driven restaurant where cooks have the opportunity to do more than simply work the same station and execute the same menu every day. Between our year-round restaurant, Saturday brunch, weekly specials, catering, private events, seasonal menus, and immersive pop-up bars, there’s always something different happening in our kitchen. If you love food, enjoy being creative, and want to continue developing your skills while working with an experienced culinary team, we’d like to meet you. About Hudson’s Hudson’s Restaurant & Catering is a family-owned and operated restaurant led by brothers JJ and Kevin Altomare, graduates of The Culinary Institute of America. For more than 19 years, we've built our business in Northeast Ohio around chef-driven food, creative menus, genuine hospitality, and memorable guest experiences. In addition to our year-round restaurant and catering operation, we're home to our immersive seasonal concepts: Nightmare Before Blitzen’s • Blitzen’s • O’Blitzen’s These experiences completely transform our restaurant with unique menus, specialty cocktails, elaborate décor, and high-volume service. For our culinary team, that means opportunities to work with different menus, ingredients, techniques, and styles of service throughout the year. A True Teaching Kitchen Between our ownership and culinary management team, Hudson’s has more than 90 years of combined culinary experience. We believe that knowledge should be shared. Whether you're looking to strengthen your fundamentals, master another station, become a better-rounded cook, or eventually move into kitchen leadership, there are people here who can help you grow. Depending on your experience and goals, you'll have opportunities to develop skills in:
- Sauté, grill, fry, and other stations
- Breakfast and brunch cookery
- Knife skills and fabrication
- Meat and seafood cookery
- Stocks, soups, and sauces
- Prep and production
- Plating and presentation
- Catering and private-event production
- High-volume execution
- Menu development
- Food costing and portion control
- Kitchen organization and leadership
If you want to learn, we'll teach. If you want to grow, we'll give you opportunities to prove yourself. Bring Your Creativity One of the things we're most proud of at Hudson’s is that our kitchen staff has a voice. Our specials change weekly, and the creativity comes from our culinary team collaborating, sharing ideas, and developing dishes together. Have a dish you've been wanting to create? Want to experiment with a different ingredient or technique? Bring us your ideas. We want cooks who aren't just interested in working a station - we want people who are interested in food. What You’ll Do
- Set up and properly stock your station before service
- Prepare vegetables, proteins, sauces, and other mise en place
- Execute menu items accurately and consistently
- Maintain strong ticket times without sacrificing food quality
- Follow established recipes, portions, and plating standards
- Coordinate with other stations so each table's food is completed together
- Communicate effectively with chefs, managers, and fellow cooks
- Maintain station pars and restock throughout service
- Properly cool, label, date, rotate, and store food
- Maintain a clean, organized, and food-safe workspace
- Assist with prep, receiving, inventory, and production as needed
- Help teammates when another station gets hit
- Contribute ideas for weekly specials and seasonal menus
- Take ownership of the food leaving your station
Who We’re Looking For Previous restaurant cooking experience is strongly preferred.
Our strongest candidates:
- Have professional restaurant kitchen experience
- Understand proper mise en place and station organization
- Have solid knife skills and cooking fundamentals
- Are comfortable with a variety of cooking methods and equipment
- Can work quickly without sacrificing quality
- Stay composed during busy service
- Care about consistency and presentation
- Keep a clean and organized station
- Communicate well with teammates
- Can take direction while also working independently
- Show up prepared and can be counted on
- Have reliable transportation
- Are available for Saturdays and other busy shifts
- Want to continue learning and improving
Culinary school is welcome but not required. What matters most is your ability, attitude, reliability, creativity, work ethic, and pride in what you do. Why Cook at Hudson’s? Closed Every Sunday Restaurant life doesn't have to mean giving up your entire weekend. Hudson’s is closed every Sunday, giving our team a guaranteed day away from the restaurant each week. We're also closed most major holidays. Create, Don't Just Execute Our cooks have opportunities to contribute ideas to weekly specials and seasonal menus. We want your creativity in the kitchen. Keep Learning Work alongside an experienced culinary team with 90+ years of combined experience in a true teaching-kitchen environment. Variety Keeps Things Interesting
Our culinary operation includes:
- Lunch and dinner service
- Saturday brunch
- Weekly specials
- Catering
- Private events
- Seasonal menus
- Holiday events
- Nightmare Before Blitzen’s
- Blitzen’s
- O’Blitzen’s
Grow With Us We're interested in people who want more than their next kitchen job. Dependable cooks who demonstrate skill, leadership, creativity, and initiative can have opportunities to move toward positions such as: Lead Cook • Kitchen Manager • Sous Chef • Culinary Leadership We believe in developing strong employees and promoting growth from within whenever possible. What We Offer
- Competitive pay based on experience
- Full-time and part-time opportunities
- Flexible scheduling
- Closed Sundays
- Closed most major holidays
- Employee food discounts
- Paid training
- Employee referral program
- Hands-on culinary development
- Opportunities to learn multiple stations
- Opportunities to contribute to weekly specials
- Restaurant, brunch, catering, and private-event experience
- High-volume seasonal pop-up experience
- Growth and leadership opportunities
- A locally owned restaurant where ownership is actively involved
Our Restaurant Hours Monday–Friday | 11:00 AM–9:00 PM Saturday | 9:00 AM–9:00 PM Sunday | CLOSED Saturday brunch is served from 9:00 AM–12:00 PM, followed by our regular menu through 9:00 PM. Individual employee schedules and shift times vary based on position and availability. Come Cook. Create. Learn. Grow. We're looking for cooks who love food, take pride in their work, enjoy being part of a strong kitchen team, and want to continue getting better at what they do. Whether your goal is to become a stronger line cook, learn every station, contribute your own dishes, or eventually move into kitchen leadership, there can be a path for you at Hudson’s. Bring your experience. Bring your ideas. Bring your passion for food. Come join the Hudson’s culinary team. Apply today! Hudson's Restaurant and Catering is a family owned and operated restaurant. The owners are brothers, JJ and Kevin Altomare graduated from The Culinary Institute of America and have been creating memorable dishes and experiences together for the past 20 years in Northeast Ohio. We currently offer lunch and dinner 6 days per week, as well as brunch on Saturdays. We also have created pop up bars for Halloween, Christmas, St. Patrick's and Celebrating America ! Nightmare Before Blitzen's, Blitzen's, O'Blitzen's and MERICA Bar. We love creating and sharing special menus, drinks and experiences with our guests!