Darrow's Family Restaurant, located in Mackinaw City, MI, 49701, PO Box 857, Mackinaw City, MI 49701. This is a temporary, full time position for 22 cooks. Duties include preparing meals including soups, meats, vegetables, desserts and other food stuffs in restaurant kitchen; selection and measuring of ingredients according to recipes; use of a variety of kitchen utensils; apportioning food on serving plates. No education required. 12 months experience is required. Valid ServSafe/Food handler certification required - US equivalent. Darrow's Family Restaurant will offer 40 hours per week Monday through Sunday 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. or 2:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Workdays and days off will vary per person. Workers are needed to begin work on April 1, 2026 through November 1, 2026. Work will be performed in Mackinaw City, Michigan. Darrow's Family Restaurant will offer a wage of $15.99 ($23.98/hr/ot). Returning workers or workers with more experience will offer a wage of $16.00 - $22.00 per hour ($24.00-$33.00/hr/ot). Darrow's Family Restaurant will provide on-the-job training in the proper use and maintenance of all kitchen equipment. Darrow's Family Restaurant will use a single workweek as its standard in computing wages. Workers will be paid bi-weekly Tuesday by check. Darrow's Family Restaurant has optional housing available for $90/per week payroll deduction (not a condition of employment). Employee housing requires employee to share room with another employee and is located within walking distance of designated workplace. Darrow's Family Restaurant will make all deductions from workers pay check required by law.
If the worker completes 50 percent of the work contract period, Darrow's Family Restaurant will reimburse the worker for transportation and subsistence (including meals and to the extent needed, lodging) from the place of recruitment to the place of work. Upon completion of the work contract or where the workers is dismissed earlier, the employer will provide or pay for worker's reasonable costs of return transportation and subsistence back home or the place the worker originally departed to work, except where the worker will not return due to subsequent abandonment of employment. The amount of transportation payment or reimbursement will be equal to the most economical and reasonable common carrier for the distances involved. Daily subsistence will be provided at a rate of at least $16.28 per day during travel to a maximum of $68.00 per day with documentation of actual expense receipts. Workers are responsible for daily transportation to and from the work place.
Darrow's Family Restaurant will reimburse the workers in the first workweek for all visa, visa processing, border crossing and other related fees, including those mandated by the government (except passport fees). Darrow's Family Restaurant will provide to the worker, without charge or deposit charge, all tools, supplies and equipment required to perform the duties assigned. Darrow's Family Restaurant guarantees to offer work for hours equal to at least three-fourths of the workdays in each 12-week period of the total employment.
The job order is placed in connection with a future application for H-2B workers.
