Kitchen Manager - Clintonville, OH.
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Full-time
Compensation
USD50k - 55k/year
Posted about 3 years ago
Responsibilities
Kitchen United is a new-to-the-world multi-unit concept that meets at the intersection of three food megatrends: localization, delivery, and artisanal production. Kitchen United provides the commercial kitchen infrastructure to enable big restaurant brands to get closer to their customers, all types of restaurants to optimize their footprint for off-premise dining occasions.
The Kitchen Manager is responsible for overseeing all daily kitchen operations including but not limited to: daily food production, ordering, inventory management, hiring, training, and employee retention, payroll management, scheduling, onboarding, and other duties based on business needs. Responsibilities adhere to all company standards as they relate to food safety, waste, inventory management, budget costs, and staffing. The Kitchen Manager will provide leadership and direction to all line staff within the kitchen. They will ensure that all recipes, preparations, and presentations meet company and brand specifications for quality with execution. The Kitchen Manager will report into Kitchen United’s Culinary Operations.
Responsibilities:
- Manage day-to-day Kitchen United culinary operations for multiple menu concepts/brands
- Ensure a high level of customer service is provided to all guests that order from their location by - cooking quality food and ensuring order accuracy and timeliness
- Ensure that appropriate Maintenance, Safety, and Sanitation Standards are followed and that kitchen team strictly adheres to state and federal regulations when it comes to food storage, handling, and preparation and other safety and sanitation codes
- Train and manage kitchen personnel and supervise all culinary activities
- Recruits and maintains a pipeline of Kitchen team
- Create and maintain a schedule that reflects business needs
- Oversees performance management of the Kitchen team and collaborates with the HR Team when necessary
- Drive our culture of respect with all team members of Kitchen United
- Oversees all phases of food procurement, prep, production, service, inventory, ordering, storage and rotation, food preparation, recipe adherence, presentation and sanitation/cleanliness, and onboarding of food distributors
- Conduct daily line checks to ensure all food product prepped for the day meets the proper prep levels for food quality assurance
- Execute daily food service, quality, technique, portion, presentation
- Conduct food tastings and track food used for training and team tastings
- Standardize production recipes to ensure consistent quality
- Collaborate with the Operations and Finance team on expense tracking for accurate financial projections for your kitchen locations
- Be responsible for the talent lifecycle; work with the recruiting team for hiring, training, and retaining top talent, reducing annual turnover within your Kitchen Center
- Ensure all performance reviews are undertaken in a timely manner and with thorough thought and attention
- Ensure that all timecards are processed on time and with accuracy
- Provide ongoing training and development for internal teams
- Coordinate and manage all activity associated to the operational objectives of each Kitchen Center
- Lead your team members in achieving Kitchen United’s service standards, operating processes and standards of excellence
- Maintain a professional and accountable Kitchen Center environment at all times
- Builds effective relationships with all team members, restaurant partners, and corporate support partners
- Maintain the kitchen center facility by ensuring that all preventive maintenance services are scheduled and performed and by reacting to emergency repairs in a timely manner
- Delivers financial & customer metrics by monitoring member satisfaction, restaurant sales, forecasting requirements; consumer reviews; optimizing labor schedules & overtime utilization; inventory control, waste management and more
- Conduct new restaurant member on-boarding and orientation activities to aid the transition of a restaurant into a Kitchen United center
- Maintain productive and cordial relationships with all restaurant partners and their staff
- Maintain a safe, secure, and healthy environment by establishing, following, and enforcing sanitation standards and procedures; complying with local, state & federal legal regulations; developing and implementing disaster plans; maintaining security and sprinkler systems; maintaining parking lots and walkways