Lead Kitchen

Job Title: Lead Kitchen
Department: Back of House
Reports To: General Manager

Number of people reporting directly to this position: 5-25
Number of people reporting indirectly to this position: 0

Summary: Lead Kitchen is responsible for maximizing profits and understanding and controlling many factors such as food cost, labor, and productivity. Concerns include constant improving quality of food and service to ensure optimal results. The kitchen manager over sees all kitchen operations, including managing and developing employees.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Ensures product consistency through constantly checking recipe adherence.
• Checks ticket times ensuring all food is promptly made and delivered.
• Interviews all back of the house hourly employees, ensuring employees hired meet Cinebarre standards.
• Insures proper staffing levels for the kitchen and shift through tracking labor and maintain a set standard or percentage.
• Conducts performance reviews on all kitchen employees every six months and provide feedback where necessary
• Conducts kitchen meeting when necessary to brief employees on new developments.
• Ensures ongoing development of staff.
• Enforces uniform standards.
• Provides direction to employees regarding operational and procedural issues.
• Attends any food functions outside of the Cinebarre.
• Conducts performance reviews on all kitchen employees every six months and provide feedback where necessary
• Ensures food quality by maintaining high levels of cleanliness, organization, storage, and sanitation of food products.
• Approves all invoices concerning food products.
• Prepares daily food production and pars as necessary through developing the prep list.
• Trains employees when new menu items are added through guidelines set by Cinebarre Corporate.
• Disciplines hourly employees as needed.
• Reviews and monitors the prep list on a given shift.
• Sets up and opens the kitchen
• Ensures the proper breakdown, cleaning, and closing of the kitchen.
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned
• Participates in and reinforces importance of all team members recognition programs.
• Screens, interviews, and recommends candidates for kitchen management positions and hourly employees.
• Sets up manager meetings to discuss on goings of the Cinebarre
• Creates food and janitorial orders and submits to AGM
• Maintains equipment and ensures that all equipment cleaning/maintenance logs are up to date

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education/Experience: Associate's degree (A. A.) or equivalent from two-year college or technical school; or six months to one year related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Language Ability: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

Math Requirement: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Computer Skills: Word processing, Spreadsheets, Database program knowledge.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to lift up to 100 pounds. The vision requirements include: close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.