Kitchen Manager

About the role

This position requires a passionate, mature leader with the ability to lead a kitchen operations team to routinely provide Gold Standard Food, manage inventory, adhere to strict food safety standards, and provide a great work environment.

Responsibilities

• Create daily routines that produce predictable and well-coordinated kitchen operations at all times.
• Training and coaching to ensure quality food, achieve targeted food cost, improve waste from products that are not prepared to Gold Standard.
• Ensure proper product levels are maintained by daily, weekly and monthly inventories and proper ordering procedures are adhered to.
• Ensure optimum staffing daily to ensure food production keeps up with busy periods.
• Motivate and keep team members engaged by reviewing schedules and ensuring the kitchen is staffed both day and night and all new staff members are well trained.
• Keep all equipment serviceable and clean and clearly communicate with leadership when repairs are needed.
• Ensure grills are cleaned regularly and “recovered” on a monthly basis to prevent carbon build up.
• Ensure vats are filtered daily and boiled out monthly for better warming up and cooking.
• Maintain an immaculate workspace with all daily, weekly and monthly cleaning schedules followed and completed.
• Ensure smallwares are present and ordered as needed and used in accordance with the grill tool organizer and table set up in place.
• Ensure food safety in the kitchen with ongoing daily food safety checklists completed.
• Ensure all refrigerators and freezers are at proper temperatures.
• Ensure grills and fryers are checked routinely for calibration to cook all products to the right temperature.
• Establish daily routines as to WHO, WHEN and HOW all products are correctly tempered and pulled for thawing each day.
• Ensure all kitchen staff are in correct, neat and clean uniform daily and maintain a professional appearance and demeanor at all times.

Benefits

• 14 days paid vacation
• Education through Archways to Opportunity including opportunities to earn a High School degree, college tuition assistance and English classes as a second language
• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Pre-tax flexible spending accounts
• Short- and Long-Term Disability, life and accident insurance
• Paid Leaves of Absence
• Service awards
• Employee Resource Connection
• 401K program