Restaurant Executive Chef - Cascade, MI, United States - Leisure Living

Description

Executive Chef
Cascade Trails Senior Living
The Executive Chef is responsible for the successful management of all aspects of the culinary and dining department.

Responsibilities include retail sales, special events planning, food costs and inventory control, safety and sanitation, and maintaining excellent resident, customer and employee satisfaction.

Required Experience for

Executive Chef:
Bachelor's degree or related culinary degree.
Certified Executive Chef preferred.
Minimum four years of industry and culinary management experience.
Must have experience in all Microsoft Office applications required.
Culinary labor, food and small ware financial management experience required.
Primary Responsibilities for Job

Executive Chef:
Achieve 100% resident satisfaction through plate presentation and taste. The Executive Chef circulates dining rooms at meal times daily for resident feedback.
Establish presentation techniques and ensure quality standards.
Hire, coach, train, inspire and direct culinary staff. Directly responsible for food control, labor costs, menu engineering, recipe creation and standardization of recipe production to ensure consistency.
Ensure proper equipment operation/maintenance, proper safety and sanitation policies for followed in the work areas.
Oversee special catering events and offer culinary instruction and/or demonstrate culinary techniques.
Promotes positive public relations with residents, family members and guests.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to communicate effectively with others, sit, stand, walk and use hands to handle keyboard, telephone, paper, files, and other equipment and objects.

This position requires the ability to review detailed documents and read computer screens. Occasional travel to different locations may be required.
Connecting Seniors, Families and Communities

For over 37 years, our senior living communities have served seniors and their families across Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, and Tennessee, with each location offering unique services including independent, enhanced, and assisted living, as well as memory care and rehabilitation and skilled nursing.

Through forming authentic connections and committing to creating the absolute best experiences each day for our residents and their families, we've created a special culture within our communities that allows our employees to do their best work and our residents to shine every day.

This emphasis on putting people first has helped us successfully grow for the right reasons.
We find people who believe that true happiness is only found in the service of others.

It is not intended to limit or in any way modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct and control the work of the employees under her/his supervision.

The use of a particular expression or illustration describing duties shall not exclude other duties not mentioned that are of a similar kind or level of difficulty.