We are searching for a talented and motivated heart-of-house leader for our established restaurant in Sewickley. You will be responsible for assisting the General Manager and Chef in every aspect of the restaurant’s operations: delivering exceptional guest experiences, creating a warm and inviting atmosphere, leading the culinary team through training, culture building, and continuous improvement, and running the behind-the-scenes restaurant administration.
As the Kitchen Manager, you must care about the quality of food to your very core, have a deep passion for food, and understand how to lead a team to exceptional performance.
Your day-to-day will include working with your team to provide lunch and dinner service to our guests. Some admin hours will include planning purchased, holding interviews and ordering supplies.
Traits and Abilities:
Upholds Andora’s core values and mission. Helps create a team culture of trust, openness, productive conflict, commitment to goals, and accountability.
Great attitude with a positive mindset and enthusiastic embrace of problems as opportunities. Joyful about doing the work and building the company and community together.
Exceptional organizer of information. Extremely attuned to detail. Comfortable dealing with complexity. Skilled at creating systems to manage workflows.
Excellent people skills. Skilled communicator in written and face-to-face interactions. Well-developed perspective and empathy for others’ motivations, desires, and positions. Meticulous about clarity and ascertaining understanding.
Cares enormously about the guest experience and client satisfaction.
Holds and takes seriously high standards of performance for oneself and others.
Responsibilities:
Lead a team of 10 to 15 staff; including hiring, training, scheduling, and reviewing performance
Help and develop management team; set up for success
Drive continuous improvement through reflection and refinement
Follow all Health Department and Liquor Control Board regulations and guidelines
Maintain high standards of cleanliness and orderliness
Maintain safe conditions for staff, employees, and visitors
Order, receive and organize shipments and supplies
Count and record inventory thoroughly and accurately
Report safety, maintenance, or beer quality issues to supervisors
Handle cash and financial reporting securely and accurately
Control and maintain costs, daily sales reporting, and payroll to company standards
Requirements:
Life-defining passion for food- and beverage-driven hospitality
Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills
Minimum three years in full-service hospitality management. ServSafe Manager Certified
Fully open availability, including nights and weekends; and holidays
Reliable means of transportation
Compensation:
Position type: full-time salaried exempt. Reports to Executive Chef .
Two weeks paid time off, one week unpaid after one year.
Meal privileges
About Andora.
Andora Restaurant opened on Mt. Nebo Road in Sewickley in 1999 and has become a beloved local institution known for its hospitality and great food. Our dining room seats approximately 80 guests, with seating for another 140 guests on our patio in the spring, summer and fall. Andora has a very clubby atmosphere with many regular guests who have been coming to Andora for years.
We strive to provide an experience that is familiar and warm, genuinely helpful and imbued with passion about our food and wine. While generally casual, our service is professional and detail-oriented, allowing our guests to relax and enjoy themselves and their company. We have many long term employees who have been with us 15 years or longer.
Andora is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
