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Banquet Chef

Uncle Joe's Diner
Buffalo, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 4/1/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/19/2025

A banquet chef is responsible for planning, organizing and directing the work in the Banquet kitchen. They develop the banquet menu and then prepare the food for all banquet and catering events. Ensuring the food produced is of the highest quality. Their typical duties and responsibilities include:

  • Developing new menus and meals, based on customer demand or the season
  • Testing and tasting all new menus/meals
  • Briefing staff about the upcoming functions
  • Establishing the priorities each day and assign tasks to banquet kitchen staff
  • Taking a physical inventory of specific food items for the daily inventory
  • Ordering new supplies where necessary
  • Providing support and training other kitchen staff (e.g., in line cooking, food preparation and dish plating)
  • Taking orders from the executive chef
  • Ensuring the the kitchen is kept clean, tidy and sanitary
  • Supervising all junior kitchen staff

Qualifications

The real key to becoming a banquet chef is to gain experience in the profession. Most types of chefs will start off working in lower level roles hospitality industry. For example, they may start a as a pot washer or food runner. They may then gather experience as a line cook and then a sous chef in a banquet kitchen, where they will learn cooking skills from the chef who manages them.

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Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: $20.00 - $30.00 per hour

Shift:

  • 8 hour shift
  • Day shift
  • Night shift

Supplemental Pay:

  • Bonus opportunities

Experience:

  • Culinary experience: 3 years (Preferred)
  • Cooking: 3 years (Preferred)
  • Chefs: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $20 - $30

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