Responsibilities:
- Ensuring promptness, freshness, and quality of dishes.
- Coordinating cooks' and kitchen assistant tasks.
- Implementing hygiene policies and examining equipment for cleanliness.
- Plan menus set culinary directions in collaboration with management.
- Develops new and creative recipes and techniques for food preparation and presentation which meets the high-quality standards of the restaurant.
- Ensures that all food preparation and presentation are consistent, implementing standards to ensure that it is technically correct and within the budgeted food costs. Evaluates products to assure that quality, price, and related goods are consistently met.
- Schedule and coordinates the work of chefs, cooks, and other kitchen team members to ensure manpower cost budgets are met.
- Specifying the ordering of food supplies and prepares inventories, budget forecasts.
- Ensures that high standards of sanitation, cleanliness, and safety are maintained throughout all kitchen areas at all times.
- Reviewing staffing levels to meet service, operational, and financial objectives.
- Training kitchen staff, such as cooks, food preparation workers, and dishwashers.
- Performing administrative tasks, taking stock of food and equipment supplies, and doing purchase orders.
- Setting and monitoring performance standards for staff.
- Obtaining feedback on food and service quality, and handling customer problems and complaints.
Requirements:
- 7+ years of experience in a similar position.
- Advanced knowledge of chinese food professional principles and practices.
- Excellent knowledge of ordering and inventory.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Available to work after hours, over weekends, and on public holidays