What You Will Accomplish

Responsible for planning and directing food preparation in assigned Food & Beverage area(s) to ensure guests receive the highest level of service and quality on a daily and consistent basis.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Manage subordinate team members who are responsible for restaurant food preparation by planning, assigning, and directing work and appraising performance
• Counsel and impart disciplinary measures in accordance with company policy and AZ labor laws
• Interview, hire, and train team members
• Verify payroll, report sales, and generate related reports
• Monitor day-to-day kitchen operations to ensure standards of product presentation and service exceed guest expectations and meet or exceed property standards
• Work to achieve budgeted revenues, control expenses, and maximize profitability within assigned areas
• Utilize corporate approved computer programs to analyze forecasts, cost and revenue reports
• Make decisions and take action based on that information to maximize profitability
• Ensure guests receive outstanding, consistent, exceptional service by circulating through each dining area
• Seek opportunities to improve satisfaction and immediately handle any guest concerns or complaints
• Ensure all kitchen areas are clean and properly set up
• Participate in weekly/monthly inventories to maintain sufficient inventory of food, supplies, and equipment and order as needed
• Participate in weekly meeting with Culinary Management Team to ensure weekly goals, challenges, and food standards are met
• Assist in developing and updating policies and procedures
• Follow all standard food handling, TIPS, sanitation and health department guidelines
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, local and company health, safety, sanitation, and alcohol awareness standards
• Reporting to work as scheduled (on time and on regular basis) is an essential function of the job.

What You Will Bring

• Completion of an approved Culinary Program or Apprenticeship
• Two years increasingly responsible culinary experience in hotel environment
• Current Food Handlers Card
• Ability to work on AM, PM, weekend, and holiday shifts as required by operational needs

Great If you have

• Associates degree in Culinary Arts 
• Prior supervisory experience
• Ability to provide outstanding customer service and effectively resolve challenges
• Ability to monitor labor as required by anticipating business activity while ensuring that positions are staffed when and as needed and labor cost objectives are met
• Strong leadership skills and ability to motivate, train, develop, mentor
• Ability and experience in successfully leading and coordinating staff in a high volume, time sensitive environment
• Exhibit good working knowledge of meeting or exceeding budgeting labor cost
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to maintain sanitation procedures and organization of work area adhering to all OSHA and local health department regulation

Physical Requirements: 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands to manipulate equipment, and to talk and hear.  The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, and stoop, kneel, or crouch.  Ability to work in environment of varying temperatures up to 117 degrees.  The employee must occasionally lift and/or move office supplies weighing up to 40 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.  Finger dexterity is required to operate a computer keyboard, calculator and other office/restaurant equipment. 

We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.