Polo Lounge Sous Chef

Position Overview

We care about your career and are known for having the absolute best people in the industry. When you join us as a Polo Lounge Sous Chef you start a unique opportunity to become celebrated as the very best in your field.

You’ll learn not only from your fellow Legends, but also through our award-winning learning academy, so that you can achieve the highest standards of craft, service, and leadership and become a legend in your own story.

What you'll get

As a Polo Lounge Sous Chef at The Beverly Hills Hotel, here are just some of the great benefits you will receive :

• Complimentary stays with breakfast included in all 9 Dorchester Collection hotels stay once a year at each hotel!
• 50% off at bars and restaurants within all of our Dorchester Collection hotels
• World class development opportunities (Service Excellence Training, Diversity Equity Inclusion & Belonging Trainings, Monthly Lunch & Learns)
• Social events throughout the year, including Quarterly Employee Appreciation Day events, Quarterly Employee Awards, Annual End of Year Gala
• Free Meals on Duty OR Workday Lunches in the form of a prepaid contactless card
• Exclusive Access to a discount platform featuring 1000s of retailers
• Competitive Medical, Dental, Vision Benefit
• Competitive retirement scheme

As a Polo Lounge Sous Chef at The Beverly Hills Hotel, your compensation will range between $75,000-$78,000 annually.

What you'll do

A day in the life of our Sous Chef it demands high levels of energy in order to keep up. They need consistency even though the days are never alike;

and creativity to tackle daily adventures. Listing all of the tasks that our Sous Chef accomplish would be lengthy but the list below is essential to know.

• Our Sous Chefs are responsible for managing cooks. Our Sous Chef assists with weekly labor schedules and handling revisions as necessary.
• Encourages, motivates and is accessible to employees. Assist with administering, coordinating and distributing information to all kitchen employees.

Maintain accurate paperwork for scheduling, payroll and employee records. Provide People & Culture with the necessary information to keep personnel files current.

• Provide feedback to the Culinary Director and Executive Sous Chef for the preparation of kitchen employee performance reviews.
• Ensure a neat, clean and safe working environment. Organize and maintain food storage, rotation and utilization.
• Taste and review food products on a daily basis to ensure quality and consistency with preparation and presentation.
• Assist with developing, implementing and maintaining new recipes, presentations and products. Implements daily special menu at the direction of the Executive Sous Chef or Culinary Director.

Assists with preparing menus for Hotel sponsored events.

Attend weekly Catering and Kitchen meetings. Analyze and monitor the daily operation reports and track the kitchen’s inventory, places orders, monitors equipment maintenance and condition, and ensures that a kitchen operates alongside state and federal health and safety codes during their day.

This will include food production, preparation, plating and garnishing to ensure our guests receives nothing but the best experience.

• Our Sous Chef needs to have the ability to cook in any kitchen and cover any service and must be flexible to the operation schedule.
• Sometimes our guests have special requests involving the planning and development of menus and recipes. Performing special duties as requires such as going to the farmers market, acknowledging dietary restrictions and even special occasions.

Most of these requests are fulfilled by our Sous Chef.

Our hotels are truly luxury hotels. This requires preventing and correcting the imperfections and blemishes that tend to come up.

Our Sous Chef are relied upon to report these and work with several other positions to correct.

Communication is what keeps our departments running perfectly. Our Sous Chef must communicate with other departments and extended hotel team in order to ensure the alignment remains.

Our Sous Chef Chef must foster a We Care culture while maintaining hotel standards.

The items shared are essential. However, to ensure consistency, our Sous Chef are provided with specifics on how we care for their department and our hotel.

What you'll bring

• You’ll bring your unique personality and passion to the role and the team.
• Communication is what keeps our departments running perfectly. You have great
• Communication skills with a strong customer service ethic.
• Attention to detail is critical for our this role.
• English is the primary language used in our hotel. You can comfortably communicate in this language.
30+ days ago