A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in preparing, cooking, portioning, and packaging ready-to-serve Mexican food specialties, such as chili, tamales, enchiladas, and tacos (seasoned chili beans wrapped in tortillas). Respnsibilities include:

• Requisitions ingredients, such as meat, olives, chili, garlic, and spices from storeroom.
• Directs activities of workers engaged in feeding and tending grinding and mixing machines, rolling, cutting, and baking tortillas, and stirring and tending food in cooking vessels.
• Tastes foods to determine that they meet seasoning specifications.
• Supervises workers engaged in portioning and packaging foods.
• Frequently performs duties of workers supervised.
• May be designated according to food cooked as Cook, Chili; Cook, Enchilada; Cook, Taco; Cook, Tamale; Cook, Tortilla.