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About the Role
Upper Crust Food Service is seeking a Head Chef to provide fresh, healthy Greek life food nationwide. This role offers a lifestyle with few late nights and weekend hours, focusing on creating scratch-made food and ensuring customer satisfaction.
Responsibilities
- Create, plan, and execute all fresh, from scratch weekly menus with client and management input.
- Direct all food preparation and staff in accordance with company values.
- Manage and uphold sanitation practices in the kitchen.
- Maintain outstanding communication with management and customers.
- Deliver outstanding products and customer service.
- Prepare, design, and execute menus.
- Attend menu meetings with the chapter.
- Create high-quality meals with excellent presentation and flavor.
- Send photos of meal presentations to management regularly.
- Maintain a clean and sanitary kitchen and dining room.
- Wash kitchen utensils, equipment, and dishes.
- Ensure the kitchen operates in a timely manner.
- Oversee and train kitchen staff, manage schedules, and assess performance with management approval.
- Order supplies according to budgetary requirements and stock inventory.
- Enforce sanitation and food safety standards per regulations.
- Maintain a professional and positive attitude with coworkers and customers.
- Assist in planning and executing special events as directed by management.
- Communicate regularly with management via calls, emails, and texts.
- Ensure staff compliance with all policies.
Requirements
- Ability to work well as part of a team.
- Understand, remember, and apply oral and/or written instructions.
- Deal with challenging customers professionally.
- Demonstrate understanding and proficiency in various cooking methods, cuisines, ingredients, equipment, and procedures.
- Show understanding of and commit to a professional appearance and positive attitude.
- Maintain an excellent record of kitchen and staff management.
- Exhibit accuracy and speed in handling emergency situations and providing solutions.
- Be familiar with the industry's best practices.
- Ability to pass a background check.
- Must hold a valid manager level sanitation certification or obtain one within 30 days of employment.
- Capability to work in a kitchen environment that may involve exposure to extreme heat or cold.
- Required to stand for long periods, up to 8+ hours, as well as walk, bend and stoop.
- Must be able to lift and/or move objects up to 50 pounds.
- Exposure to cleaning chemicals.
Skills
- Cooking methods
- Cuisines
- Ingredients
- Equipment
- Procedures
- Kitchen management
- Staff management
- Sanitation
- Food safety
- Communication
Location
- Nationwide
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years in professional, high-volume food production or catering, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and/or experience
Education Level
- Culinary degree is a plus
- Manager level sanitation certification
Benefits
- Few late nights and weekend hours
- Time off for most holidays
- Paid vacations
- Competitive 401K with company match
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Pet insurance
About the Company
- Upper Crust Food Service provides fresh healthy Greek life food nationwide.
Equal Opportunity
- Upper Crust Food Service provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
- This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.