Slater’s 50/50 Kitchen Supervisor Job Description
A national gourmet burger restaurant is looking for an energetic and talented Lead Cook to assist with daily operations. The award winning casual concept features signature gourmet burgers and a large selection of draft beers on tap.
The concept is a destination restaurant with over 16,000+ Yelp! reviews across its other stores and has been featured on Zagat's Review, NBC Los Angeles and Business Insider.
A successful candidate will have culinary and leadership experience. We’re looking for a creative, motivating professional who doesn’t mind contributing to prep work, line cooking, kitchen cleaning, or even delivering food when necessary, but who is also not afraid to delegate. The Lead Cook will report to the Sous Chef and Executive Chef.
Major Responsibilities:
· Ensures that all food products meet company recipe specifications for preparation and quality. Maintain timing standards during production.
· Inspects and approve dishes before they go to guest tables. Examine and assess the quality of ingredients and presentation.
· Troubleshoot and diagnose issues with kitchen execution.
· Ensure kitchen is fully set up for opening, and thoroughly cleaned for closing.
· Follow maintenance program and cleaning schedule.
· Train new team members on menu items and enforce standards.
· Train junior kitchen team members through coaching and leading by example.
· Foster teamwork among the kitchen team members.
· Records all waste (food product) on tracking sheet
· Assists KM in counting weekly inventory
· Ensures compliance with health and safety regulations. Checking food temperatures, sanitation levels, proper storage, etc.
· Cooking when needed to support the flow of the business
· Constant deferral to KM or GM for business decisions that will affect financials.
· Notify management of any pertinent information related to shift activities.
Position available at multiple locations
Please email resume to Cindy@slaters5050.com. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interview.
