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Food Service Director

SAGE Dining Services
Jacksonville, FL Full Time
POSTED ON 1/28/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/28/2025

Are you an experienced Food Service Director with a passion for scratch cooking and fostering a vibrant community? Do you thrive in a collaborative environment and possess incredible client-facing skills? If so, we’d love to meet you!

SAGE Dining Services® is seeking a highly motivated and dedicated Food Service Director to lead and manage the dining operation for a private school serving grades 6-12 with an hourly team of 15 and an executive chef, and you, yourself, will be part of the culinary team. In this role, you will oversee all aspects of food service, from menu planning and preparation to team management and client relations. We pride ourselves on providing high-quality, scratch-made meals in a warm, welcoming environment that reflects our strong school community. Not only do we serve lunch daily with many different concepts and choices for our community but we also have 2-5 caterings per week.

At SAGE, we create exceptional dining experiences, not only at special catering events but at every meal. We are looking for a director who shares our passion for culinary excellence and possesses a customer service mindset to exceed the expectations of the community we serve.

Our clients genuinely value what we do, making the experience incredibly rewarding. It’s a challenge, but if you love working with real food, local vendors, and fellow food enthusiasts, you’ve come to the right company!

If you want to join a team that creates scratch menus, offers meaningful career opportunities in food service (we prefer to promote from within), provides multi-level leadership invested in your career growth, and makes food service enjoyable, apply today!

This is a salaried, year-round position as we operate year-round with summer programs.

What you'll get :

  • Competitive salary and benefits.
  • Collaborative environment.
  • Emphasis on training and development.
  • Opportunities for advancement.
  • Mission based company with values you trust.
  • Appreciative community.
  • Tremendous amount of resources and tools at your fingertips.

What you'll do :

  • Demonstrate exemplary customer service skills and develop client relationships.
  • Hire, mentor, and train Team Members in a positive environment.
  • Create menus for daily meal service as well as for a variety of catering events.
  • Implement and maintain HACCP standards.
  • Manage merchandising.
  • Deliver an outstanding example of customer service to your team.
  • Deliver fabulous catering results every time.
  • Communicate clearly, professionally, and effectively.
  • Deliver budgeted financial results.
  • Manage ordering and inventory.
  • What you'll need :

  • Minimum ten years' culinary management experience.
  • Strong leadership abilities.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage a food service operation in a financially responsible manner.
  • Outstanding customer service skills and ability to develop client relationships.
  • Proven ability to hire, train, evaluate, and manage people.
  • Substantial culinary knowledge : trends, techniques, and processes.
  • Intermediate computer skills.
  • Current ServSafe® certification, as well as local health department certification, where required.
  • About SAGE

    Working for SAGE means being part of a community. You’d work alongside creative, enthusiastic Team Members who share your passion for culinary excellence. You’d 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, faculty, staff, and parents.

    SAGE 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 respect and partnership, we offer fulfilling careers for Team Members, market access for small local suppliers, and a joyful celebration of inclusiveness and multiculturalism through the fresh, authentic, and yummy foods we serve.

    Positions at SAGE 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 opportunity for growth and promotion. Team Members learn SAGE Standards and enhance their skill set through extensive training in food safety, allergen awareness, and preventing eating disorders.

    SAGE has enjoyed steady, organic growth for the past 30 years, and we now serve independent schools and private colleges across North America. 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!

    This job advertisement should not be misconstrued as an offer of employment or a comprehensive listing of position responsibilities / expectations.

    Equal Opportunity Employer.

    If you are a candidate living in California, or applying for a position in California, please visit https : / / www.sagedining.com / blog / post / 156768 / california-consumer-privacy-notice-to-california-employees-and-job-applicants for information regarding SAGE's California Privacy practices.

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