Restaurant Chef

About the role

Located at 1 N Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304, this full‑time management position oversees the quality, consistency and production of the restaurant kitchen. The role involves performing culinary tasks while leading staff, coordinating menus, purchasing, staffing and food preparation, maintaining sanitation and food standards, developing and training the team, and ensuring guest and employee satisfaction within the operating budget.

Responsibilities

• Develops, designs, or creates new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions for the restaurant.
• Supervises restaurant kitchen shift operations and ensures compliance with all Food & Beverage policies, standards and procedures.
• Maintains food preparation handling and correct storage standards.
• Recognizes superior quality products, presentations and flavor.
• Plans and manages food quantities and plating requirements for the restaurant.
• Communicates production needs to key personnel.
• Assists in developing daily and seasonal menu items for the restaurant.
• Ensures compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.
• Follows proper handling and right temperature of all food products.
• Estimates daily restaurant production needs.
• Prepares and cooks foods of all types, either on a regular basis or for special guests or functions.
• Checks the quality of raw and cooked food products to ensure that standards are met.
• Determines how food should be presented and creates decorative food displays.
• Supervises and coordinates activities of cooks and workers engaged in food preparation.
• Utilizes interpersonal and communication skills to lead, influence, and encourage others; advocates sound financial/business decision making; demonstrates honesty/integrity; leads by example.
• Leads shift teams while personally preparing food items and executing requests based on required specifications.
• Supervises and manages restaurant kitchen employees.
• Manages all day‑to‑day operations.
• Understands employee positions well enough to perform duties