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Assistant Culinary Experience Manager

Impact Kitchen
New York, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 4/1/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/30/2025
MAKE YOUR IMPACT

Impact Kitchen is here to impact the lifestyle of New York City!

Impact Kitchen is a nutrition focused all day restaurant & cafe serving breakfast, brunch, lunch & dinner. We are 100% free of gluten, refined sugars and seed oils. Make an Impact everyday with smoothies, power bowls, coffee, baked goods and endless other nutrient-dense options.

Founded in Toronto in 2015, Impact Kitchen is the brainchild of two incredible innovators: personal trainer and nutrition expert Josh Broun, and M·A·C Cosmetics co-founder Frank Toskan. In addition to our restaurant presence, Impact Kitchen fuels many major league sports teams and top athletes through catering and culinary partnerships.

We are incredibly excited to share that this job posting is for our first New York based location, Impact Kitchen Nomad. Impact Kitchen Nomad will be opening in summer 2025. Together we can make an Impact Everyday.

WHAT MAKES IMPACT KITCHEN UNIQUE?

Our Values

  • We are Passionate & Purposeful

We honour our food philosophy and make sustainable decisions while providing world-class hospitality. We ensure you feel the impact of our passion, every day.

  • We are Impacting the Community

From our teammates to our customers and partners, we are a community. We connect, inspire and make an Impact together, every day.

  • We are Building for the Future

We are constantly evolving and building for a better tomorrow. We believe that our habits truly make an Impact, every day.

Our Culture

Impact Kitchen prides itself on creating an incredible environment for those inside and outside our organization. We think like a professional team and are always training for the championship.

Our Stats

  • 96% – The amount of managerial roles we filled through internal success planning last quarter
  • 91% – Our average Employee Experience score
  • 87.5% – Our average score across Indeed and Glassdoor

If health and wellness excites you, if providing wholesome food and empowering others to make healthy choices drives you, and if you are looking for opportunities to grow alongside a dynamic team, then working with Impact might be a great fit for you!

Assistant Culinary Experience Manager

As an Assistant Culinary Experience Manager (ACEM) at Impact Kitchen you set the culinary standard high and are passionate to ensure guests enjoy their experience through incredible food. You lead your team to create delectable and consistent dishes for dine-in and take-out guests, support back of house operations and partner with your Guest Experience counterparts on the team. You are an integral team member as you support the leadership of all aspects of culinary operations in the restaurant. The natural progression from this role is to Culinary Experience Manager and then to Restaurant General Manager.

Compensation

Assistant Culinary Experience Managers earn between $65,000 - $72,000 per year, benefit from a meal stipend, a substantial discount on Impact Kitchen products, have opportunity to enroll in health benefits, earn paid vacation and sick time, and have flexible scheduling to accommodate a healthy balanced lifestyle.

TEAM & DEPARTMENT

The role of the Assistant Culinary Experience Manager is to support the leadership of all aspects of the kitchen and the Culinary Experience Team with the goal of delivering great food, minimizing waste and running a profitable business. As Impact’s Assistant Culinary Experience Manager you must be an advocate for our food and lifestyle philosophies, participate in and support our ethos, and live and breathe our values. You and your team will strive to deliver the best-in-class culinary and guest experience through a motivated and engaged staff aligned to an exciting workplace culture. This role is fully accountable for cost of goods, people, equipment, cleanliness and excellent food execution.

Assistant Culinary Experience Managers make an impact everyday through our back-of-house operations and lead a large portion of our total team population. In this role you will have the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues from multiple levels of the organization while leading the main point of food production for our guests. The Assistant Culinary Experience Manager reports to the Culinary Experience Manager. The natural progression from this role is to Culinary Experience Manager and then to Restaurant General Manager.

The ACEM reports to: Culinary Experience Manager

Core Responsibilities

  • Assist in set up, organization and cleanliness of the kitchen
  • Manage kitchen compliance including health and safety regulation
  • Manage the production schedule and logistics within a multi-location operation
  • Oversee the work of a large kitchen staff, working together with them as a team
  • Scheduling of kitchen personnel in conjunction with business forecasts and predetermined budget
  • Model the company’s standards and operating practice ensuring that the team follows SOP’s through production
  • Recruit and train top talent through progressive training and set evaluations aligned to career planning
  • When necessary, execute disciplinary action via HR process for all kitchen personnel
  • Interpret and report cost of goods and labour actuals versus budget
  • Work alongside senior management and stakeholders responsible for menu development on innovative new menu items and recipe creation

Skills

  • Culinary Degree from a recognized Institute of Culinary Arts or equivalent combination of education and experience, Red Seal preferred
  • Minimum 3 years progressive culinary/kitchen management experience
  • Proven understanding and success managing food and labour costs
  • Comprehensive knowledge of food production, sanitation, food cost controls and presentation
  • Knowledge of federal, provincial and municipal health and safety requirements
  • Exceptional communication, organization and leadership skills
  • Experience in training, orientating and development of new employees
  • Proven ability to ensure and train on consistency, quality and plate presentation
  • Ability to work a flexible schedule, including weekends and holidays
  • Willing to periodically work long hours depending on the needs of the business
  • Willingness to perform other duties as assigned
  • Multiple outlet or commissary experience considered an asset
  • Ability to lift over 20lbs is required
  • Applicants who do not already have legal permission to work in Canada will not be considered

INCLUSIVITY AT IMPACT

Impact Kitchen feeds a diverse community and is made stronger by a diverse team. We welcome and encourage applications from our entire community equally. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the decision to hire is based solely on business needs, experience and future potential. Hiring is not determined or influenced by any classification of an individual as protected by the laws that govern the region for which the prospective individual would work within. This is true for all practices and policies within the employee journey / lifecycle.

Impact Kitchen supports alternative ways to interview and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Should you require a reasonable accommodation, please indicate in your application. Both Impact Kitchen management and the applicant share responsibility to communicate and reasonably accommodate.

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