Executive Catering Chef

Location

Wichita, KS, 67206

Type

Full Time

The Executive Catering Chef is a management position overseeing chef managers as well as hourly culinary staff, responsible for developing and executing culinary solutions to meet customer needs and tastes. Offers a wide variety of culinary solutions to meet customer and client needs and tastes. Oversees and manages culinary operations to meet production, presentation, and service standards. Applies culinary techniques to food preparation and manages the final presentation and service of food.

**Job Responsibilities**

+ Ensures culinary production appropriately connects to the Executional Framework

+ Ensures proper culinary standards and techniques are in place for preparation of food items, including production, presentation, and service standards

+ Manages a culinary team, including chef managers and hourly staff, to ensure quality in final presentation of food

+ Train and manage culinary and kitchen employees to use best practice food production techniques

+ Coach employees by creating a shared understanding about what needs to be achieved and how it is to be achieved

+ Reward and recognize employees

+ Plan and execute team meetings and daily huddles

+ Complete and maintain all staff records including training records, shift opening/closing checklists and performance data

+ Develop and maintain effective client and guest rapport for mutually beneficial business relationships

+ Responsible for delivering food and labor targets

+ Consistent focus on margin improvement; understanding performance metrics, data, order, and inventory trends

+ Ensure efficient execution and delivery of all culinary products in line with the daily menu

+ Full compliance with Operational Excellence fundamentals: managing waste, standard menus, recipes and ingredients through managing customer driven menus and labor standards

+ Understand end to end supply chain and procurement process and systems, ensuring only authorized suppliers are used

+ Full knowledge and implementation of the Food Framework

+ Ensure accuracy of estimated food consumption for appropriate requisitions and/or food purchase

+ Ensure proper equipment operation and maintenance

+ Comply with all applicable policies, rules and regulations, including but not limited to those relating to safety, health, wage and hour

This job profile does not contain a comprehensive listing of all required activities, duties, or responsibilities. Job duties, responsibilities and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.

**Qualifications**

+ Requires at least 4 years of culinary experience

+ At least 2 years in a management role preferred

+ Ability to multi-task

+ Ability to simplify the agenda for the team

+ Requires advanced knowledge of the principles and practices within the food profession.

+ This includes experiential knowledge required for management of people and/or problems.

+ Requires oral, reading, and written communication skills

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