Kitchen Manager

Kitchen Manager Job Description

• Coordinate and supervise the kitchen employees according to food safety standards.
• Ensure compliance with state, federal, and local food handling requirements and standards.
• Provide direction to kitchen employees, ensuring the execution of all employee duties.
• Set regular cleaning standards and verify that the staff is maintaining sanitation and safety standards
• Ensure compliance with health and fire department regulations
• Order all food and supplies for the kitchen
• Check in kitchen vendors by counting each item and ensuring all items are correct
• Supervise food prep and cooking times.
• Check food temperatures (165-degree cook temp & 135-degree hold temp)
• Maintain correct portion sizes.
• Quality Control : Make sure items are dated & labeled correctly by Dhec standards, using FIFO rule (first in first out)
• Ensure food products are stored in compliance with safety practices.
• Perform weekly inventory counts
• Control waste by tracking waste
• Train all kitchen employees on food prep, procedures, and managing inventory.
• Drive customer satisfaction through quality control and efficiency.
• Must be knowledgeable of all kitchen operations and safety procedures,
• Knowledge of first aid (in case of burns & cuts)
• Knowledge of how to fill out the company incident report.
• Maintain high-performance standards.
• Supervise, coach, and motivate kitchen employees.
• Recruit, interview & complete New Hire paperwork for all kitchen employees.
• Create weekly schedules and ensure staff is clocking in correctly for the kitchen
• A positive leader with excellent communication skills.
• Must have excellent customer service skills.
• Must pass ServSafe Certification.
• Must follow company money-handling procedures
• Ensure food equipment is clean and in good working order (log in work orders as needed).
• Keep good communication with the kitchen supervisor / district manager.
• Feed your warmers / staging your food in warmers / make less more often
• Making daily build to's

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