What are the responsibilities and job description for the Executive Chef - Catering & Events position at Wooden Paddle?
IS THIS JOB FOR YOU?
- Are you a strong leader, with the natural ability to build and develop culinary
- dream teams
- Do you geek out over tinkering with salt, fat, acid, and heat until a dish tastes just right?
- Are you a bit artsy, with the uncanny ability to design beautiful, Instagram-worthy plates?
- Are you known for setting the bar so high that your team keeps it there, even when you’re not there? Is ‘good enough’ never good enough for you?
- Are you super comfortable designing menus that balance creativity, feasibility, and profit?
- Do you naturally excel at planning ahead, so even the craziest events run as smooth as
- butta
- Are you the kind of chef that takes your career seriously, but doesn't take yourself too seriously?
Yes?! Then YOU should join our team!
WHY WORK HERE? :
Here are some of the perks!
WHAT DOES A TYPICAL DAY LOOK LIKE? :
RESPONSIBILITIES
As our Executive Catering Chef, you'll be at the helm of catering culinary operations. These are the results you'll be hired to accomplish :
Hire & Develop a High-Performing Culinary Team
Hand-pick your A-players, coach & develop your B-players, and encourage the C-players... to work somewhere else. In this role, you’ll hire & mentor a culinary
Conversation-Sparking Catering Menu Innovation
In this role, you’ll work alongside (celebrity! But totally not an a-hole!) Chef Patrick Cassata and
Uncompromising Food & Beverage Quality Control
You’ll lead the charge to ensure - with your own eyes and ears! - that our high standards for food and beverage are met, event after event - definitely when you’re there, and especially when you’re not. You’ll be at events during peak times - hands-on and all-in - ensuring things are done right the first time, or they’re done again. No compromises, no questions asked.
A Profitable Catering Culinary Program
Maximize your P's and minimize your L's, bb! You'll be responsible for (and damn good at!) achieving profit targets within the culinary program. You’ll drive sales - through creative menus, special events, and more - and control overall food & labor costs within all of our catering kitchens.
Efficient & Well-Oiled Catering Kitchen Logistics
In this role, you’ll ensure that all the right resources - people, equipment, and every last ingredient - are where they need to be, when they need to be there. You’re the behind-the-scenes mastermind, ensuring that our pop-up kitchens operate smoothly in all locations. And when something inevitably goes sideways? You’re the cool-headed fixer, solving problems on the fly.
That being said - if you're good with change, and are willing to try new things - you'll love this job, and it'll love you right back.
The total compensation for this position will fall between $90000 - $120000 per year. Base salary depends on relevant experience.
WORK SCHEDULE
This position is full-time, with a semi-set schedule designed around the demands of our catering operations. Our Executive Chef will be on-site for the most significant, most complex, highest-revenue events. While the weekly schedule may vary, days off are typically back-to-back. Our Executive Chef will work 5 days, and typically 50-ish hours per week.
WILL YOU FIT IN HERE?
Our team has been built - brick by brick - on shared core values. And no, they’re not just bullsh
You Come With Batteries Included
You’re a high-energy self-starter who jumps into action, and doesn’t need hand-holding to get things done.
You’re Scrappy
You’re a resourceful problem solver who makes things happen; if there’s no door, you get in through a window.
You Take Your Work Seriously
You take pride in your work, big and small, and you have a natural reflex to do things the
But, You Don’t Take Yourself Too Seriously
You’re a positive team player who’s quick to laugh at your own mistakes, open to feedback, and humble about your wins.
And if these words
JOB REQUIREMENTS :
Here are some of our must-haves & would-like-to-haves :
Wooden Paddle is 11-years-young restaurant & catering company, started in 2013. (That's a whole middle-schooler ago!)
Our purpose, and the reason we exist, is to be 'The Place You Want to Be'. 📍
Our niche, and the thing we work really freaking hard to do better than anyone else, is creating ✨ Super Fun Dining Experiences✨.
Our focus is shareable, wood-fired comfort foods 🍕, artsy cocktails 🍸, & good-time energy 💁♀️.
As a team, we're scrappy go-getters who don't take ourselves too seriously - but we take our food, drinks, and hospitality
And we're all on a mission to hit 10 Million Good-Time Guest Experiences by 2033! Come for the pizza, stay for the party bb! 🎉
Salary : $90,000 - $120,000