Japanese Cuisine Chef job description
Delicious food is our passion. We are searching for a skilled Japanese chef to deliver exceptional dining experiences that exceed customers’ expectations. The chef will cook meals, prep ingredients, and ensure our high safety and cleanliness standards are met. The chef will also provide strong leadership to other kitchen staff, delegating tasks and providing guidance. we realize our reputation is directly dependent on the expertise of our talented chefs, and we’re committed to providing both our customers and employees with quality experiences.
Objectives of this role
- Create delicious meals, appetizers, sides, and desserts
- Manage kitchen staff while fostering a strong sense of teamwork and minimizing conflict
- Maintain high standards for our food and equipment, helping us determine what needs to be ordered or repaired
- Create and prepare new menu items or specials, as needed
- Take our menu and reputation to the next level by leveraging your expertise, industry knowledge, and culinary creativity
- Ensure that food safety and sanitation standards are met at all times
Responsibilities
- Analyse the menu and oversee kitchen setup and ingredient prep, delegating tasks as needed
- Oversee kitchen operations, ensuring that everything runs smoothly and customers receive their food in a timely manner
- Cook entrees and prepare other menu items such as appetizers, salads, dressings, sauces, and desserts
- Ensure that food is unspoiled and kitchen equipment is functional, ordering supplies and restocking ingredients as needed
- Train new kitchen staff in operations and techniques, providing leadership, guidance, and instruction
- Oversee the cleaning and sanitizing of kitchen equipment and workstations
- Involving team members recruitment and hiring
- Conduct and review training such as Orientation, On Job Training (OJT)
- Monitor team members’ training progress and performance evaluation
- Others
Skills and qualifications
- Advanced knowledge of cooking and food preparation techniques
- Excellent communication skills and enthusiasm for teamwork
- Familiarity with a range of kitchen equipment
- Comfort studying a recipe, determining appropriate steps, and delegating tasks accordingly
- Strong leadership skills and an ability to provide clear instructions to other members of the kitchen staff
- Certification relevant to state or country of employment, such as a food handler certificate
- Monitor, manage and improve the efficiency of support services such as Marketing, HR, Accounts and Finance.
- Facilitate coordination and communication between support functions
- Plan and conduct monthly outlet meeting with target and action plan
- Monthly outlet performance analysis and audit, analysis and action plan
- Outlet sales budget (or target) management; and management of KPI’s
- Outlet cost control: Labour cost, food cost, operating cost; e.g Utilities. Disposable products and others
- Handling customer feedback, complaint and comment in a professional way
- People Management
Preferred qualifications
- Culinary degree or on-the-job experience
- Experience in a managerial position
- In-depth knowledge of food safety and sanitation regulations
- Familiarity with the restaurant industry and the latest industry news
- Strong sense of culinary creativity
- Experience cooking with diverse ingredients
- In Japanese Cuisine at least 10 years’ experience
