Executive Chef

Job Responsibilities

• Ensures culinary production appropriately connects to the Executional Framework
• Ensures proper culinary standards and techniques are in place for preparation of food items, including production, presentation, and service standards
• Manages a culinary team, including chef managers and hourly staff, to ensure quality in final presentation of food
• Trains and manages culinary and kitchen employees to use best practice food production techniques
• Coaches employees by creating a shared understanding about what needs to be achieved and how it is to be achieved
• Reward and recognize employees
• Plans and executes team meetings and daily huddles
• Completes and maintains all staff records including training records, shift opening/closing checklists and performance data
• Develops and maintains effective client and guest rapport for mutually beneficial business relationships
• Aggregates and communicates regional culinary and ingredient trends
• Responsible for delivering food and labor targets
• Consistent focus on margin improvement; understands performance metrics, data, order, and inventory trends
• Ensures efficient execution and delivery of all culinary products in line with the daily menu
• Maintains integrity of the standard Aramark food offer; responsible for always maintaining food quality and safety of items
• Full compliance with Operational Excellence fundamentals: managing waste, standard menus, recipes and ingredients through managing customer driven menus and labor standards
• Understands end to end supply chain and procurement process and systems, ensuring only authorized suppliers are used
• Ensures proper equipment operation and maintenance
• Complies with all applicable policies, rules and regulations, including but not limited to those relating to safety, health, wage and hour

Qualifications

• Requires at least 4 years of culinary experience
• Requires a culinary degree or equivalent experience
• Requires oral, reading, and written communication skills

About LifeWorks Restaurant Group

LifeWorks Restaurant Group, an independently operated division of Aramark, designs custom solutions for clients looking to take amenities to the next level. Our team of forward-thinkers looks at each opportunity as an experience—not a requirement—and delivers out-of-this-world, truly sensory experiences, feeding company culture.

From the beginning of each client relationship, the team at LifeWorks Restaurant Group establishes a transparency with its partners, from space design and delivery to marketing of the final, branded product. Learn more by visiting here.