Sous Chef- Kindling Downtown Cookout and Cocktails

About the role

The Fifty/50 Restaurant Group is seeking a dedicated Sous Chef to join their dynamic team. Reporting to the Executive Sous Chef and General Manager, this position involves staff development, recipe testing, and ensuring high standards of safety and sanitation.

Responsibilities

• Set up and stock stations with all necessary mise en place
• Answer, report, and follow instructions from Executive Sous Chef and General Manager
• Prepare food for service
• Cook menu items with the rest of the kitchen staff
• Maintain a positive and professional approach with your team
• Ensure that food comes out simultaneously with high quality and consistency, in a timely manner
• Comply with nutrition and allergy regulations and standards
• Help with preparation
• Be available to fill in as needed to ensure the smooth and efficient operation of the restaurant
• Comply with health and food safety standards, restocking items and cleaning
• Manage food cost and labor cost

Requirements

• Ability to stand/walk a minimum of 10 hours or as needed
• Must be able to exert well-paced and frequent mobility for periods of up to 10 hours or as needed
• Be able to lift up to 50 pounds, frequently
• Frequent reaching, feeling, bending, stooping, carrying, finely manipulating and keying in data
• Work in both warm and cool environments
• Tolerate potential allergens: peanut products, egg, dairy, gluten, soy, seafood and shellfish
• Returning unused items after service to the correct inventory location, or storing cooked goods for use at another service

Qualifications

• At least 18 years old
• Minimum of 1 year line cook experience
• Ability to work quickly while maintaining safety standards and procedures
• Properly handle a knife, confidently
• Food Service Sanitation Manager Card
• Allergens Certificate
• Ability to work in high volume environments
• Ability to work early morning hours or late evening hours
• Ability to work a consistent schedule 5 days per week
• Understanding of various cooking methods, ingredients and how to use kitchen equipment

Skills

• Commissary
• Enforcement of Safety / Sanitation Standards
• Food Cost Optimization
• Food Safety Knowledge
• Frying
• General knife handling
• Kitchen Cleaning/Sanitation
• Kitchen Management
• Meat Cookery
• On-site Special Events
• Ordering / Purchasing / Receiving / Organizing
• Pizza Cooking
• Portioning
• Purveyor/Local Farmer Relationships
• Sauté
• Scheduling
• Team Development
• Expediting
• Microsoft Office
• P&Ls

Benefits

Details about Kindling: Downtown Cookout & Cocktails are available on request.