Chef de Cuisine

You can be part of a kind and caring team that delivers a nurturing environment for our staff and our guests. Our restaurant is cozy and elegant: family dinners, date-night for couples, friends enjoying each other, and children smiling for their favorite Gina pasta! Our menu comes from Gina, my Mom, from Agrigento, Sicily. Gina believed that food is love. Our restaurant is entrepreneurial, excited, and fun. We are bringing a vibrant local Sicilian/Italian cuisine to the DC-Maryland area. 

We are trying to bring new humanistic approaches to managing the kitchen and culinary arts in our restaurant, so we encourage early-stage career applicants, such as recent culinary school graduates (or soon to graduate), and we also encourage mid-career chefs who are looking to change traditional team approaches for improving the way restaurant staff cooperate to deliver great food and service. 

We are under construction and we open this December-January in Gaithersburg, Maryland at Kentlands Market Square. You can read more details about our restaurant, mission at and you can email us at View email address on culinaryagents.com 

Gina always said to our family, "Take care of each other." So, we aim for our staff to take care of each other as we take care of our guests. Our staff will participate in the growth of Gina's, so we offer profit sharing and potential partnership-equity in our company. We also offer health insurance, 401K retirement package, and vacation benefits. 

We seek a candidate with an interest in Italian/Sicilian cuisine. Our restaurant is gluten free (GF) based on our ("senza glutine") techniques from Italy and Sicily, and we are seeking candidates willing to learn/execute our GF culinary methods. We will work together with you to implement operations practices that will delight our guests and cultivate a fulfilling professional environment for you and our staff-team. 

We are seeking a candidate who is interested in working in the DC/Maryland/Virginia (DMV). We can negotiate coverage of relocation moving costs for those willing to move to Maryland. We are a community-based restaurant, so we are hoping to find a candidate that would enjoy working with our Maryland team to bring our special foods and fine dining to Maryland. We have a Culinary Director, CEO, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), and COO who will support you, so this will be a collaborative team dynamic. We are using best-practice technologies and management strategies to integrate FOH and BOH operations for efficient communications, service, and team-building, which will make the CDC role more rewarding.

Our mission statement says: "To create and serve delicious, authentic and heart-warming Sicilian cuisine with utmost hospitality, joyful togetherness, and nurturing care for our guests, staff, partners and community." We hope to find a candidate for this position who would enjoy helping us build this mission. 

Position Summary

Pre Opening Responsibilities:

• Learn Gina’s menu and concept
• Understand SOPs and health/safety procedures 
• Help hire and train kitchen staff
• Assist in BOH-related procedures

Post Opening Responsibilities:

• Help cultivate a great BOH team
• Contribute positive, composed, and respectful leadership during meal services
• Ensure consistency in the execution of dishes to maintain excellent quality food
• Maintain health/safety compliance during day to day operations 
• Provide feedback and coaching to BOH team during and outside of service 
• Manage food ordering, receiving, and inventory levels 
• Communicate with FOH staff to ensure smooth service 

What Makes This Position Unique  

• Opportunity to shape Gina's team culture in a new restaurant concept that can expand to other locations.
• Opportunity for profit sharing, leadership team and potential co-ownership equity
• A driven, personable, and passionate leadership team that will support you along the way
• Novel local Sicilian cuisine as a new interpretation of popular Italian techniques

Traits we are looking for:

• Warm, genuine hospitality
• Positive energy
• Team player mindset
• Humility
• Willingness to learn and try new things
• Attention to detail and organizational skills 

Please apply through this link or send us a resume at View email address on culinaryagents.com