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About the Role
As a Chef Manager for Genuine Foods, you will ensure that students and families enjoy scratch-made and delicious meals. This role is based in a Higher Education facility, collaborating with the culinary and operations management team and managing onsite staff. Responsibilities include planning meals and menus, leading a team, and contributing to daily prep and service. You will also manage the Catering Department, including training, event setup, and directing temporary personnel, overseeing client visits and events, account management, and ensuring high-quality menu items.
Responsibilities
- Generate seasonal and exciting menus with the culinary team, considering client preferences, tastes, and nutrition.
- Collaborate with the Food Service Director and corporate culinary team to ensure menus meet labor, food cost, and efficiency standards.
- Manage team members, including staffing, scheduling, and coaching, with HR assistance.
- Develop menus, manage costing, ordering, and inventory.
- Train catering staff in service standards, menu presentation, and customer service.
- Handle catering orders, grow the catering business, and maintain client relationships.
- Ensure availability of supplies and ingredients while minimizing waste.
- Maintain inventory records and invoicing.
- Comply with food safety and sanitation requirements.
- Manage and coach the team overseeing daily food preparation and serving, including culinary and operational excellence, staff/skills training, daily troubleshooting, recipe adherence, and site cleanliness.
- Continuously improve culinary aspects of operations from sourcing and receiving to menu/recipe development and feedback.
- Oversee weekly P&L and communicate performance to internal and external teams.
Requirements
- 3+ years of previous high-volume production, contract food service, healthcare, catering, hotel, restaurant, or relevant experience in an Executive Chef or Chef Manager role.
- Comfortable with change, feedback, and passionate about cooking from recipes.
- Previous catering experience in restaurants, hotels, corporate dining, educational institutions, healthcare, military, and/or other food service operations required.
- Passion for seasonal ingredients and local sourcing.
- Experience in leading teams with varying culinary skill levels and interest.
- Commitment to continuous learning and ongoing training.
- Demonstrated organizational and superior attention to detail skills.
- Superior ability to manage labor and food costs.
- Enjoys working with people and growing and developing a culinary team.
- Very comfortable working with numbers and technology.
Skills
- Menu planning
- Team leadership
- Catering management
- Inventory management
- Food safety and sanitation
- Cost control
- Client relationship management
- Organizational skills
- Attention to detail
Location
- Garden City, NY
Work Type
- Full-Time
Experience Level
- 3+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $100000.00 - $110000.00
Benefits
- Health and retirement benefits
- Paid time off
- 401K
- Performance-based bonuses
About the Company
- At Genuine Foods we create nourishing food environments at schools and workplaces through great-tasting and wholesome meals, made from genuine ingredients.
- We are a growing social enterprise that uses food to enhance health, productivity and happiness.
- We believe that fresh, scratch-made food together with unparalleled service and meaningful enrichment programs can transform lives and build community.
- Food service management is what we do, but what we achieve together with our customers, our partners and our dedicated team goes beyond the plate.
Equal Opportunity
- Genuine Foods 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.