Kitchen Manager

About This Role

Managing the kitchen operations for a luxury cinema exhibitor, this role involves overseeing food preparation, ensuring quality and safety standards, and leading the kitchen staff. It suits a manager with strong leadership skills who can deliver an exceptional guest experience through high-quality food and drinks.

Responsibilities

• Provide direction, coaching, and leadership for all BOH employees (including food preparation and production, safety and sanitation, and company policies and procedures)
• Hire, coach, and train the kitchen staff to perform various assignments and handle the equipment
• Train kitchen and concessions personnel in cleanliness and sanitation practices
• Ensure employee adherence to company policies and procedures in partnership with HRBP
• Utilize all tools necessary to ensure quality food is prepared to recipe specification within company-approved ticket times
• Ensure the freshness of food products through proper purchasing and product rotation, utilizing the FIFO method
• Check food storage and temperatures daily, record the temperatures on the log sheet, and notify maintenance of any issues
• Attend trainings for new menu items and train kitchen staff on proper preparation of new menu items
• Communicate, implement, and follow up on all changes for food products and kitchen systems and procedures
• Check and maintain proper food holding and refrigeration temperature control points
• Responsible for rollouts of all Company initiatives and new menu implementation
• Ensure that daily opening, mid, and closing operation duties are being completed daily
• Maintain kitchen equipment by following the manufacturer's operating instructions, educating staff of proper use, maintaining equipment supplies, and contacting vendors for repairs as necessary
• Deliver exceptional guest experience through the execution of great food and drinks
• Practice proactive guest management by following proper empowerment policy and recognizing opportunities before they occur, resolving the ones that always do and leaving the guest with a positive experience portraying a positive company image
• Assist managers and General Manager with FOH duties as necessary
• Responsible for weekly scheduling of kitchen staff in accordance with theater occupancy forecast, movie schedule, and employees' availability
• Execute private events to maximize sales and increase the guest experience
• Control food cost and usage by following proper requisition of products from storage areas, product storage procedures, standard recipes and waste control procedures
• Ensure successful delivery of the daily and weekly budgets, goals, and objectives
• Other duties as assigned