Sous Chef - Margaritaville

Sous Chef - Margaritaville

The Sous Chef Margaritaville, will be responsible for directing, managing and successfully operating a high volume branded concept on CityWalk. As Sous Chef, the position will be a primary "go-to" for the kitchen team and responsible for the functions and flow of the back of the house. The Sous Chef is responsible for ensuring that the food served always meets or exceeds standards of excellence. While this position will report to the Restaurant Chef, this position is responsible for setting the expectations for all kitchen team members to maximize productivity. This individual must be able to work effectively with limited supervision and demonstrate leadership to motivate others.

Responsibilities include driving operating profit goals and sales, optimizing profits by controlling food, beverage, and labor costs, consistently achieving operational excellence, developing and retaining exceptional talent, ensuring compliance with all local, state, and federal laws regarding food quality, safety, labor, and employment, partnering with Human Resources to train and develop restaurant leaders at every level, maintaining or exceeding weekly budgeted variable operation profit by controlling cost of goods & variable labor, communicating restaurant results to the Restaurant Chef and General Manager with recommendations for improvement, ensuring high Team Member and Guest Engagement, mentoring and counseling team members and enforcing appropriate policies and procedures ensuring that everything is within compliance of venue and company standards, promoting company's mission and values, ensuring company policy and brand standards are followed, preparing and presenting hourly team member reviews, and completing all tasks assigned by the Executive Sous Chef on time.

Qualifications include a Bachelor's degree in Business, Hospitality Management or a related field; or equivalent combination of education and experience, minimum of 5 years of management experience in high quality chain or independent restaurant group, thorough knowledge of MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint and POS systems, and ability to work rotating schedules, holidays, weekends and nights.