Chef

Location: Oak Grove, KY, US 42262 • Requisition ID#: 5118

About the role

Job Summary: A Chef de Cuisine is to lead our kitchen team and create a diverse food offering. The Chef de Cuisine contributes to the success of the Food & Beverage department by directing and guiding the restaurant operations to ensure positive guest experience while ensuring company profitability.

The Property is a newer facility in a high traffic area in the heart of Oak Grove, Kentucky, and across the street from a large Army post, Ft. Campbell. The Property is 10 miles from Clarksville, TN and less than 60 miles northwest of downtown Nashville, TN.

Responsibilities

• Successful management of the Garrison Oak Steakhouse
• Establishes menu forecasts based on customer counts or business forecasts, previous experience of dates and holidays.
• Responsible for posting the menu forecast for all kitchen team members to review.
• Reviews staffing levels to maintain budget levels of employment and delegates authority or assigns duties to all staff as necessary.
• Assists and advises upper management in training and developing staff, interviewing new hires, completing the hiring process, and evaluations.
• Reviews and improves service execution, ticket times, and production schedule.
• Reviews staffing levels and maintain budgeted labor
• Verifies that all portion sizes, quality standards, departmental rules, policies, and procedures are maintained by kitchen staff, and supervises the production of all food items.
• Verifies that all sanitation and nutrition practices are maintained by kitchen staff.
• Ensure the safety and security of employees and guests. Implements programs and processes to reduce loss time injuries.
• Responsible for the enforcement of company policies and procedures.
• Works with marketing team to prepare for events and promotions.
• Maintains a cooperative relationship with vendors.
• Computer literacy and ability to analyze sales data.
• Meets with departmental directors and managers as necessary.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Five to seven years’ experience as a Sous chef, pastry chef, or specialty chef with a 4-year degree in a related field or equivalent work experience.
• Valid health certifications, if required
• Able to obtain and maintain a valid Kentucky racing and gaming license
• Physical demands: frequently required to sit or stand; walk; use hands to finger reach, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear. May also be required to lift, push, and pull up to 50 lbs. Reasonable accommodations may be made.
• Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.
• Employee is subjected to circulate throughout the assigned areas, including the smoking area, actively observing players and functioning of machines.

Skills

• Management abilities demonstrated in managing the kitchen effectiveness.
• Maintaining interpersonal working relationship among all personnel.
• Oral and written communication skills.
• Willingness to assume overall responsibility relative to the performance of the kitchen in the absence of the upper management staff, work flexible hours and handle high pressure deadlines.