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Hospitality-Focused Kitchen Manager to Lead with Heart, Quality, and Craft. To operate a profitable restaurant and catering facility, manage a team of cooks, and other staff to provide a quality dining experience for patrons and serve a seasonal and innovative menu.
Job Responsibility:
Operate a profitable restaurant and catering facility
Manage a team of cooks and other staff to provide a quality dining experience
Serve a seasonal and innovative menu
Responsible for hiring, promoting, and disciplining associates as required
Coordinates all related departments regarding food purchases, production, service, storerooms, sanitation, and maintenance of equipment
Analyzes and controls all expenses related to the food department
Plans daily menu featuring a variety of seasonal offerings and assigns preparation of different dishes among team of chefs
Buys or supervises purchase of food daily
Supervises wine purchases to maintain an excellent cellar
Monitors receipt of supplies and proper storage
Estimates food, overhead, and labor costs, and establishes menu prices accordingly
Hires kitchen staff, draws up work schedules, evaluates job performances, and discharges unsatisfactory employees
Experiments with new menu offerings and trains other chefs as necessary
Samples food occasionally to ensure proper preparation, seasoning, portion sizes, and temperature
Plans plating of food to maximize the visual impact
Inspects kitchen and dining room to ensure proper hygiene and safety standards
Responsible for menu cost control
labor cost control and achieving budgets and forecasts
Maintain high associate moral among staff
Checks and shops competition
Responsible for care and maintenance of all equipment in food department
Inspects all refrigerators and storerooms for excessive inventories, over-preparation and spoilage, and to ensure sanitation is maintained
Meets requirements set by the Board of Health
Responsible for maintaining open lines of communication between all departments
Performs other duties as requested by General Manager
Requirements:
Graduation from a well-known culinary school or demonstration of previous successful management of a quality restaurant
Three years of Food and Beverage experience required
An intimate working knowledge of culinary standards and management execution with an entrepreneurial spirit to create and mentor superior culinary talent is essential
A history with annual revenue and expense budgets is preferred
Excellent verbal, comprehension, listening and problem solving skills
Excellent reputation for presenting an interesting, well-prepared menu
Ability to deal with a diverse staff and to operate efficiently despite stressful time pressure
Interpersonal and time management skills
Adaptability
Culinary Degree or BA/BS Degree a plus
Nice to have:
Culinary Degree or BA/BS Degree a plus
A history with annual revenue and expense budgets is preferred