Kitchen Manager

Kitchen Manager

We are a rapidly growing restaurant looking for Kitchen Managers to enhance our company. The Kitchen Manager is responsible for assisting the General Manager in supervising Heart of the House restaurant operations. The Kitchen Manager will uphold the company's vision and culture. We're looking for creative, motivated professionals who can lead their stores to success. The Kitchen Manager works in accordance with the Company's goals, established policies and standards in support of the General Manager. Primary duties include shift supervision focused on providing excellent guest service and giving direction to team members ensuring quality product, safety, and health department compliance.

Requirements:

• Be able to be on your feet for 4-8 hours
• Demonstrates ability to safely prepare all prepped and menu items by following company procedures, recipes, menu specifications and completes final plate check to ensure proper presentation.
• Directs heart of house team members in properly preparing recipes. Validates appropriate menu specifications are followed and productivity standards are met.
• Assists with managing food costs by properly ordering, receiving and storing all food products weekly according to specifications and guidelines. Maintains food product inventory levels in accordance with established company guidelines.
• Completes opening and/or closing duties. Conducts daily checklist and uses appropriate planner on each shift.
• Must be mentally alert, detailed oriented with good reasoning skills
• Must be able to read, write and speak English in a clear understandable voice
• Knowledge of service standards
• Serve Safe Certified

Responsibilities:

• Oversee opening and closing duties
• Provides training and coaching for heart of the house team members
• Order supplies, food and ingredients based on rapidly shifting demands and maintain inventory levels and conduct weekly inventory and reporting
• Communicates professionally and openly with all team members and other managers. Holds pre-shift meetings daily and monitors work environment to ensure team members are communicating respectfully at all times.
• Monitors work environment promoting safety, security, and cleanliness. Follows established company procedures and complies with applicable laws and health department requirements.
• Hire and train kitchen staff in specific stations, and cross-train as necessary
• Builds and maintains an efficient and productive kitchen team through training, retention, coaching and development of both individuals and group learning opportunities.
• Create schedules for kitchen staff to ensure there are always enough workers to meet the demands, particularly for the lunch/dinner rushes
• Schedule and oversee necessary maintenance and repairs on kitchen equipment and appliances
• Completes inventories of food, supplies, and smallwares. Verifies appropriate par levels are maintained.
• Ensures standards for preventive maintenance on equipment and building are followed. Coordinate with General Manager to contact vendors for maintenance/repairs as needed.
• Promote and further communicate between all departments, always seeking to improve procedures
• Ensure that our guests always receive the finest products and services that Angry Carb Shack has to offer with a friendly smile that will set us apart as a restaurant and give our guests reason to come back time after time

Qualifications:

• 2- 5 years restaurant experience
• Able to delegate tasks and maintaining fast speed of service
• Capable of conducting and assessing restaurant inventory
• Willing to work a flexible schedule
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Dependable, punctual & honest

The physical demands of this position described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties. When performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit; stand and walk; use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools or controls; including fine dexterity (e.g. to prepare food and drinks, handle money, write and operate a computer) and gross dexterity (e.g. to carry items); reach with hands and arms; climb stairs and ladders; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk and hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move objects up to 25 pounds or more on occasion. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. The employee may be required to attend business meetings or conferences. The work environment is that of a restaurant operation, including moderate to varying noise, crowds, and temperatures.