Assistant Food Service Director

Lighthouse Cafe is seeking an Interim Food Service Director to be part of our beautiful school campus in Antioch, Tennessee. Our team embraces a positive work environment and fantastic food! We provide fun, familiar meals as well as culinary-forward menu items to our students and staff members. Our team is most successful when staffed with devoted, dependable, motivated, and positive team members.

Position Overview:

The essential responsibility in this position is to plan, coordinate, and oversee the operations of each of our food service departments. These departments include LCS Cafe, LCS PreK Cafe, LCS Coffee Bar, and LCS Lion’s Cafe. This role also includes ensuring the department runs efficiently with scheduling, ordering stock, managing stock and inventory, managing and directing the team, handling lunch accounts, overseeing P&Ls, and ensuring our families are satisfied with their dining experiences here at Lighthouse Christian School.

Additional responsibilities include implementing policies and standards for good work flow, monitoring and evaluating performance work within each location, weekly meetings with cafe team, weekly meetings with Head of School, biweekly meetings with our administration team, resolving service issues, planning and managing budget, hiring and training, and establishing relationships with families and vendors.

What you'll get:

• Experience based salary pay
• Bi-Weekly pay
• Benefits for full-time positions: Health/Life/Vision/Dental/Vacation/Holidays and Personal Days
• Shirts provided
• Generous referral program
• Daily Team Member meal
• Discounted tuition rates for children attending LCS

What you'll do:

• Design Lunch Menus
• Create recipes
• Support staff
• Communicate with all campus departments
• Create schedules
• Manage Inventory
• Prepare assigned menu items in strict accordance with Cafe recipes, safety, and allergen policies that exceed our guests’ expectations
• Ensure that all food is appropriately displayed and visually appealing
• Interact positively with LCS Cafe guests and Team Members
• Use proper food handling, storage, and sanitation techniques (HACCP)

What you'll need:

• Bachelor’s Degree (Business Administration or Business Management preferred)
• Experience with managing a commercial kitchen
• Understanding Culinary Dynamic
• ServSafe or Tennessee Food Handler Certificate
• Ability to create recipes and instructions in English
• Ability to interact with Cafe guests and Team Members in a professional and positive manner
• Great reviews from professional references
• Work history showing leadership and diversity in culinary positions

More About Lighthouse Cafe...

Working for Lighthouse Cafe means being part of a community. You’ll work alongside creative, enthusiastic Team Members who share your passion for culinary excellence. You’ll also make a difference in an academic community and bring excitement to the dining hall with made-from-scratch, Chef-inspired recipes that delight students, staff, and parents.

Lighthouse Cafe embraces the uniqueness of everyone in our family: Team Members, suppliers, guests, and client communities. Our diversity fuels our innovation, which drives our growth. Every voice matters.

Guided by our founding principles of Christ-centered love, respect, and partnership, we offer fulfilling opportunities for Team Members, market access for small local suppliers, and a joyful celebration of inclusiveness and multiculturalism through the fresh, authentic, and delicious foods we serve.

Positions at LCS Cafe provide competitive wages and benefits with hours that offer a better work-life balance than those at a restaurant. We create careers, not just jobs, with significant opportunities for spiritual and personal growth. Team Members learn our Cafe Standards and enhance their skill set through extensive training in food safety, allergen awareness, and preventing eating disorders.

Lighthouse Christian School has enjoyed steady, organic growth for the past 40 years, and we now serve our campus with these same intentions through our love for good eating. We continue to grow and raise the bar in food service for the educational market to create exceptional dining experiences that delight the senses, inspire minds, and foster community. Come, rise with us

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $45,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Salary : $45,000