Holbrook Life Hiring for Seeking an Executive Chef! Generous Incentives & No Late Nights! Job at Sugar Hill, GA Full Time

The Executive Chef is primarily responsible for leading a team that delivers high-quality, great tasting food within compliance of proper food safety and sanitation standards, while effectively managing profitability The Executive Chef is also responsible for menu design and needs to be proficient with basic computer skills to include Word, Outlook, online purchasing / ordering systems. In addition to a generous salary, there is a bonus structure based on guest satisfaction, labor cost, food cost, and health score.

Key responsibilities include:

• Establish and prioritize guest service, satisfaction & loyalty, leading by example with follow-through.
• Handle all food requests, comments, and complaints with a sense of urgency

• Ensure the culinary team fully supports and assists the service team by providing all products needed to execute an exceptional dining experience

• Support Holbrook Life brand vision by creating daily features, wine dinners, banquets and specific menus that are functional, inspiring, and creative
• Willingness to develop rapport with residents
• Plan, organize, monitor, and control all aspects that are vital to daily operations to include: line checks, ticket times, kitchen labor, scheduling, daily communications, safety and sanitation, food quality and handling, recipe adherence
• Maintain impeccable safety and sanitation standards to ensure restaurants and kitchen facilities are clean and in working order (proper food holding and refrigeration procedures with team checks and records of temperatures and food quality)
• Model a passion and knowledge for cooking, flavor of food and quality standards
• Manage relationships with distributors and resolve issues with vendors promptly
• Maintain and coordinate repair of kitchen equipment, as necessary.
• Create a top-quality team to achieve community goals & objective
• Always demonstrate a professional image; ensure good personal hygiene of self and others.
• Develop a highly creative team to support menu roll outs, ongoing food training, and demonstrations for service and culinary teams; manage individual and team performance through coaching, feedback, and performance management
• Teach, train and coach all culinary standards and techniques
• Coach and grow the talent of others by providing feedback, holding people accountable and rewarding while recognizing success
• Lead and manage a strong working relationship with the General Managers and Community Relations Directors
• Partner with the sales team by providing all necessary food product & knowledge along with culinary team members to effectively execute community events.
• Host daily lineups, weekly meetings with Sous Chef, monthly meetings with culinary team
• Proactively manage all recipe preparation times, produce costs, rotation of product, recipe yields and waste to meet budgeted food cost goals.
• Effectively communicate with the GM (food cost, inventory, P&L, financial reports, customer issues)
• Manage the budget and oversee the product ordering for community catering events
• Complete all administrative work required for each shift

Requirements

• Possess at a minimum a two-year culinary arts degree or other culinary certification.
• Possess a minimum of eight (8) years of practical cooking experience.
• Have a minimum of five (5) years of culinary management experience in an Executive Chef or Sous Chef role with a proven track record of effectively leading and managing a large team.
• Possess a solid understanding of cooking methods, ingredients, kitchen equipment, health and safety standards, and familiarity with industry best practices.
• Possess the ability to effectively and professionally engage, interact and collaborate with residents, guest, suppliers and associates.
• Have excellent communication skills; multi-lingual skills a plus.
• Be a customer-focused, proactive and creative problem-solver.
• Work well under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
• Be willing and able to work early morning hours.
• Be proficient in POS, desktop, inventory management, payroll management, MS Word and Excel.
• Have the ability to walk, sit, and stand.
• Have the ability to reach, bend and stoop frequently and lift 50 lbs.
• SERVSafe certification preferred.
• Experience in multi-outlet operations preferred.
• Be willing to take, and to pass, a drug screen.
• Be willing to consent to, and able to pass, a criminal background screen.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $60,000.00 – $65,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Physical Setting:

• Casual dining restaurant
• Fine dining restaurant

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Holidays
• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Supplemental Pay:

• Signing bonus

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Sugar Hill, GA 30518: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred)

Experience:

• Culinary experience: 2 years (Required)
• Cooking: 1 year (Preferred)
• Executive Chef: 2 years (Required)

Work Location: One location