Banquet Chef - Experience REQUIRED

Essential Functions include but not limited to the following:

Responsible for supervising all hot and cold food production for restaurants, special functions, parties, promotions, etc.  Accountable for food cost, labor cost, and waste of entire kitchen operation.  Acts as mediator between kitchen management and subordinates supervises training needs and employee development.

Over-all responsibility for the club’s banquets and commissary culinary endeavors. Supervises and performs the planning of preparations and cooking as well as giving instructions to culinary department employees.

Essential Functions include but not limited to the following:

• Attends daily taste panels, as needed.
• Manages food production to ensure the highest quality preparation and presentation on a consistent basis.
• Reviews line set up using standard set up chart.
• Tastes food and takes corrective actions if necessary.
•  Ensures production level is in accordance with business forecast
• Inventories and returns unused food products to proper storage areas.
• Oversees banquet kitchen staff and delegates assignments for production of event
• Utilizes leftovers as instructed by Executive Chef.
• To have complete understanding and knowledge of every station on the line
• Reviews 86’d item’s and relays information accordingly.
• Establishes and maintains professional standards of conduct and appearance at all times and manages by example.
• Monitors during meal period to ensure consistency of food quality, eye appeal, portion size, presentation and flavor of foods.  Makes sure production of food takes place in a timely fashion.
• Establishes and adheres to food cost and labor cost goals.  Takes corrective actions as necessary to assure that financial goals are attained.
• Attends management meetings and hold kitchen staff meetings and seminars.
• Communicates with executive chef and kitchen employees on daily basis and updates them on day-to-day operation.  Reviews with them daily specials and presentation of such, and review and updates log book.
• Conducts meetings with subordinates to ensure a consistency of product, highest sanitation and hygiene level in kitchen is met.  Establishes training needs with subordinates.
• Delegate’s responsibility and authority to subordinates for specific tasks and follows up, provides clear and complete instruction, states expectations precisely and uses subordinates capabilities most effectively.
• Holds periodic kitchen inspections of department with executive chef to ensure high sanitation level is kept.
• Evaluates subordinates, apprentices and extern in department on an ongoing basis and takes corrective actions accordingly.
• Completes assigned tasks given by executive chef in an accurate and timely fashion.
• Is sensitive to guests request and tries to accommodate any reasonable special request.
• Quality check purchases of meat, poultry, seafood, produce and dry goods on a daily basis.
• Prepares reports, costs menus, makes schedules and performs administrative duties as assigned by Executive Chef.
• Presents him/herself in the most professional manner at all times showing his/her leadership, self-control, and works toward a common goal within the restaurant.
• Maintains complete day-to-day knowledge of menus, preparation and presentation.
• Manages dating, labeling and covering all items in walk-in cooler and freezer.
• Maintains safety and security in workstation.
• Assists in plating of banquet function when needed.
• Responsible for Club’s banquet operation to include, but not limited to, preparation and/or supervise preparation of all banquet foods.
• Maintain complete knowledge of all banquet menu items and their preparation as well as special member favorites
• Works in a clean sanitary manner and sets and example of professionalism.
• Regularly cleans and supervises the cleaning of the main kitchen and anywhere banquets are prepared and served.
• Document all new recipes.
• Assume complete control of the banquet kitchen in the absence of the Executive Chef.
• Assist with preparation and execution for the restaurants lunch and dinner service(s).
• Focus on quality, consistency and timely service of all parties.

Performs additional duties as assigned.