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Job description / Role
The role:
As an Executive Chef you need to ensure that quality culinary dishes are served on schedule and any problems that might arise are rectified. Another key aspect of the role is cost management and creating menus and dishes.
Main duties include:
- Overall responsibility for daily operations of the kitchen
- Recruit, train and manage kitchen staff
- Determine production schedules and staff requirements necessary to ensure timely delivery of services
- Inspect equipment, work areas and general supplies to ensure conformance to established health and safety standards
- Instruct and train kitchen staff in the preparation, cooking, garnishing and presentations of food
- Collaborate with the restaurant manager to plan and develop recipes and menus considering factors such as seasonal availability of ingredients, customers, portion size and final menu price
- Previous culinary experience with French and Italian cuisines, as well as seafood
- Provide costing of new menu items while maintaining profit margins
- Prepare and properly present food for regular service and functions
- Maintain the budgetary targets
- Monitor and maintain stock levels to reduce wastage
- Liaise with distributors for purchase orders
- Order food supplies and other supplies as needed
- Check the quantity and quality of received products to ensure items are as ordered and standards are met
- Other miscellaneous duties as assigned.
Requirements
Experience: Previous experience with control food and labor cost, demonstration cooking, menu development, and pricing and development of culinary team preferred.
Education: The ideal candidates will possess a bachelor's degree or related culinary degree with 5+ years of industry and culinary management experience.
Core competencies: Organizational skills,leadership, management, planning
About the Company
The foundation for AMZ Group was laid in 1999 with the opening of our first retail store. The motivation behind this was a strong personal passion for quality products and superior experiences. With this mindset of offering customers excellence as our guiding principle the group has continuously grown and diversified; in 2002 successfully branching into hospitality. Today AMZ Group consists of a diversified portfolio of businesses and is looking to grow even further through our 400 employees, whom all share a common passion for offering excellent services in a sustainable way.