Healthcare Dining Services Manager

About Us

NEXDINE Hospitality’s family of brands provides dining, hospitality, fitness center, and facility management services to businesses, independent schools, higher education, senior living, and hospitals nationwide. We put our people first to deliver finely tailored, expertly managed programs. The NEXDINE Experience is responsive, transparent, and authentic.

About the Role

The Healthcare Dining Services Manager reports directly to the General Manager and plays a key role in supporting daily dining operations within a healthcare or senior-living environment. This position ensures that all culinary and service standards meet the nutritional, safety, regulatory, and hospitality expectations of patients, residents, visitors, and clinical partners. The Healthcare Dining Services Manager assists in leading the dining team to provide an exceptional mealtime experience that supports overall resident well-being, clinical dietary needs, and therapeutic nutrition plans. This role helps maintain strong client and resident relationships through consistent communication, responsiveness, and a high standard of service.

Responsibilities

• Operations
  • Maintain vendor relationships.
  • Inspect supplies, equipment, or work areas to ensure conformance to established standards.
  • Arrange for equipment purchases or repairs.
  • Purchase all food or other supplies needed to ensure efficient operation, ensuring quality control practices for receiving all products.
  • Determine production schedules and staff requirements to ensure timely delivery of services, including payroll processing.
  • Ensure company standards for safety, proper food handling practices, sanitation, uniform guidelines, and productivity are maintained.
  • Compile and record production or operational data on specified forms.
  • Manage client relationships to maintain client satisfaction and account retention.
• Financial
  • Assist with management of department controllable expenses (P&L) including food costs, labor, supplies, uniforms, and equipment, specific to budgetary guidelines.
  • Assist in the budgetary process.
  • Assign prices to menu items based on food, labor, and overhead costs.
  • Responsible for inventory management.
  • Assist with submission of financial reporting to the corporate office per NEXDINE guidelines.
  • Assist operations in financial recordkeeping.
• People
  • Responsible for people management, including recruitment, hiring, termination, review process, and management of unit staff.
  • Instruct, train, and supervise employees on essential job functions.
  • Provide excellent customer service, including being attentive, approachable, greeting, and thanking customers.
• Culinary
  • Assist with the oversight of culinary operations.
  • Responsible for the quality of all food products and ensure that standards are met.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's of Science in Dietetics, Certified Dietary Manager (CDM), Registered Dietitian (RD), or Registered Diet Technician (DTR).
• 2 years of food service experience.
• Strong background in culinary arts.
• Experience in restaurants, hotels, corporate dining, education, military, healthcare, and/or related food service operations.
• Knowledge of food and catering trends with a focus on quality, production, sanitation, food cost controls, and presentation.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to communicate at management, client, customer, and associate levels.
• Financial, budgetary, accounting, and computational skills.
• Computer skills and knowledge of MS Office products, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and internet.
• ServSafe Certification is preferred.

Benefits

• Generous compensation and benefits package.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Company-paid life insurance.
• 401(k) savings plan.
• Paid time off: vacation, holiday, sick time.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Career growth opportunities.
• Various employee perks and rewards.

Pay

$70,000–$75,000 per year, paid weekly via direct deposit.

Schedule

Full time.