Kitchen Manager
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Description
Building community with engaged, mission-driven team members is essential to Life Alive. KMs hire, onboard, and oversee the prep team. They possess a high level of culinary skill and the ability to train and coach. They run joyful shifts and embody Life Alive’s culture and standards, serving as a model for the team members they lead.
Requisite Experience
Description
Building community with engaged, mission-driven team members is essential to Life Alive. KMs hire, onboard, and oversee the prep team. They possess a high level of culinary skill and the ability to train and coach. They run joyful shifts and embody Life Alive’s culture and standards, serving as a model for the team members they lead.
- Staging, onboarding, and training and maintaining capable prep captains
- Developing Sages with high standards and desire to learn
- Use of prep path tool to track team progress
- Consistent coaching and development of team
- Checking all orders for freshness and quality
- Tasting scratch made sauces, soups and broths for flavor and consistency
- Use of Fabrication model to assure full stocking and proper prep each shift
- Upholding daily deep cleans with the prep team
- Training “clean as you go” style
- Adhering to food safety guidelines and auditing space regularly
- Full grasp of sales forecasting (sales ledger) and labor budget
- Ownership of prep, dish, and sage schedule within labor template
- Developing team for efficiency to maintain operations within margins
- Adherence to purchase system and use of declining budget to inventory properly and stay fully stocked
Requisite Experience
- 2 years of Kitchen Manager/Head Chef/Sous experience
- Experience leading a team (>5 people)
- Experience making schedules & using labor templates
- Kitchen experience 4+ years
- History of growth in position
- Keen Palate
- Independently motivated
- Entrepreneurial spirit
- Ability to manage through ambiguity
- Growth mindset orientated
- Ability to work 9+ hours on your feet multiple days a week
- Ability to lift up to 50lbs
- Keen eye for detail and quality
- Use of labor and food management systems
- Capable of running operations without supervision
- Cool and Calm Demeanor under pressure
- Able to troubleshoot and solve problems in the moment
- Solves problems and follows through until solved
- Demonstrated ability to train and grow leaders
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing
- Interpersonal skills
- Team-building skills
- Strong leadership skills, with the ability to coach and mentor others
- Ability to plan and prioritize workload
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Seniority level
Mid-Senior level -
Employment type
Full-time -
Job function
Management and Manufacturing -
Industries
Restaurants
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