Executive Chef Taiwanese cuisine - PHOENIX, United States - Sodexo

Description

Sodexo is seeking an Executive Chef Taiwanese cuisine for our Corporate Services client in North Phoenix, Arizona

The Executive Chef will manager all culinary operations at our global cafe specializing in Taiwanese cuisine with a focus on excellent customer experience.

The clients have created a beautiful, contemporary "workplace of the future", – this role will be responsible for delivering the culinary services that match the environment. Our ideal candidate will be able to support the clients need for authentic Taiwanese cuisine, keeping services fresh and updated based on current trends. The ability to communicate in Mandarin would be essential for this role.

The successful candidate will have direct impact on all culinary operations for our Taiwanese café with oversight of hourly cooks for recipe execution, safety and sanitation. This location will serve Breakfast, Lunch Monday through Friday.

The best qualified Executive Chef will have strong, hands-on, kitchen experience with Taiwanese cuisine.

The Ideal Candidate will have the following in your culinary "tool kit":

• Can you "throw down" in very high profile account - have experience in Taiwanese cuisine with ability and knowledge to develop menus within a contract, meeting food costs and dietary requests.
• A strong Taiwanese culinary flair– can you impress the client and lead the culinary team to provide new trending ideas/menus.
• Knowledge of current culinary Taiwanese trends– can you compete with food trends and top chefs? do you have well developed culinary skills for healthful daily menus.
• Possess the ability to inspire a kitchen staff - be a strong trainer/mentor to the culinary staff – elevating their skills, overseeing daily production to high standards of quality/presentation and on trend menus, and ensuring safety/sanitation

Success in this role will require you to:

• Be innovative every day
• A strong focus in customer service

Sodexo fosters a culture committed to the growth of individuals through continuous learning, mentoring and other career growth opportunities, along with the performance of organizations. We believe it is important for our work to be meaningful to all who contribute to it, and we remain faithful to our mission, our core values and the ethical principles that have guided us since 1966. We support these values and help them thrive in each employee.

Sodexo offers fair and equitable compensation, partially determined by a candidate's education level or years of relevant experience. While the budgeted range for the position is posted, Sodexo salary offers are based on a candidate's specific criteria, like experience, skills, education and training.

Basic Education Requirement - Associate's Degree or equivalent experience
Basic Management Experience - 2 years
Basic Functional Experience – 1 year work experience in food or culinary services including restaurants, fast food, vending, catering services, institutional services, mall food courts, etc.

Sodexo is an EEO/AA/Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran employer.