Chef

Our Italian upscale restaurant “La Superba” is seeking a passionate, skilled chef to create delicious meals for our patrons. You will be responsible for planning our menu, ensuring that each dish is nutritious and cost-effective, and collaborating with a team of kitchen staff to deliver food that meets the highest quality standards.

To ensure success in your role as Chef, you should be an excellent leader with great organizational skills and impeccable time management. Top candidates will also be creative individuals, capable of creating dishes that set us apart and keep people coming back for more.

Chef Responsibilities:

· Ensuring that all food is of excellent quality and served in a timely manner.

· Planning the menu, keeping in mind budget, and availability of seasonal ingredients.

· Overseeing all kitchen operations.

· Coordinating kitchen staff and assisting them as required.

· Training staff to prepare and cook all the menu items.

· Taking stock of ingredients and equipment and placing orders to replenish stock.

· Enforcing safety and sanitation standards in the kitchen.

· Creating new recipes to keep the menu fresh.

· Keeping up to date with industry trends.

· Inform wait staff about daily specials.

· Receiving feedback and making improvements where necessary.

• Listens to customer complaints and suggestions and resolves complaints.

· Ability to jump in and take over for any station

Chef Requirements:

· Past experience as a working chef.

· Advanced knowledge of the culinary arts.

· Perfectionism in sanitation and quality control.

· Portfolio of creative, unique dishes.

· Expert multitasking ability.

· Great leadership and interpersonal skills.

· Ability to run stocktaking and place orders for resupply.

· Exemplary work ethic in a high-pressure environment.

· Passion and pride for delighting people with food.

· Slightly modify recipes to meet customers’ needs and requests (e.g. reduce salt, remove dairy)

· Monitor food stock and place orders.

· Check freshness of food and discard out-of-date items.

· Experiment with recipes and suggest new ingredients.

• Current SERVSAFE certification or has successfully completed a sanitation course within the past year.
• Associate’s degree in hotel or institutional food preparation preferred.
• Current food handler’s card and other certification as required by federal/state/local law.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $75,000.00 - $100,000.00 per year

Shift:

• 10 hour shift

Supplemental Pay:

• Bonus opportunities

Work Location: In person

Salary : $75,000 - $100,000