Sous Chef

Duties/Responsibilities

• Ensuring that our kitchen is fully and appropriately staffed at all times
• Interviews, trains, counsels, and coaches staff
• Ensures all training materials, development and schedules are being followed
• Clearly communicates with all Team Members
• Ensures a harassment-free environment for all Team Members
• Manages and makes adjustments to labor on a shift-to-shift basis while ensuring we don't harm the Guest experience
• Affirms operational excellence so our kitchen is running efficiently and effectively
• Ensures that all laws, regulations, and guidelines are being followed
• Creates a restaurant atmosphere that both patrons and employees enjoy
• Variety of other tasks as needed

  Requirements

  • Previous experience as a Sous chef, Kitchen Manager or a current NYAJoes employee
  • Extensive food knowledge and the ability to remember and recall ingredients and recipes
  • Great leadership skills
  • The ability to coordinate and train team members
  • Exhibits a neat, clean and professional image at all times
  • Genuinely hospitable and polite to our guests and team members
  • A sense of urgency
  • An attention to detail/organized
  • Able to work while standing for 10+ hours a day
  • Dependable, trustworthy
  • Able to work all stations in the kitchen, (grill saute, pantry, pizza, fry and expo)
  • Team Player