- Oversee and run BOH operations, ensuring efficient shift activities, from food prep to cooking and cleanup.
- Lead pre-shift meetings, conduct regular line, temperature, and cooler checks, and organize food tastings to maintain food quality.
- Collaborate with the General Manager (GM) and management team to maintain and update recipe books and standards.
- Perform regular line checks to ensure the quality of all menu items.
- Manage the ordering and purchasing of food products and supplies, ensuring cost-effective operations.
- Track and control food costs and assist in financial management related to kitchen operations.
- Facilitate effective communication across all teams to ensure timely production and service.
- Lead the recruitment, training, and development of all BOH staff, fostering an environment of learning and growth.
- Inspire the kitchen team, promoting creativity, morale, and high performance through hands-on leadership and example.
- Direct service flow in the kitchen, expediting as needed to contribute to timely and smooth service.
- Assist in the development and introduction of new dishes and menu items, ensuring thorough training and rollout.
- Supervise and train line cooks and prep staff, ensuring adherence to quality standards and procedures.
- Proven experience as a Sous Chef in a full-service restaurant, demonstrating strong leadership and kitchen management skills.
- Expertise in food preparation and cooking, with a deep understanding of kitchen operations.
- Skilled in inventory management, including ordering and purchasing supplies needed for daily operations.
- Strong ability to lead, manage, and develop kitchen staff, promoting a culture of teamwork and respect.
- Excellent communication skills, capable of effectively coordinating between the front of house (FOH) and BOH.
- Problem-solving skills with the ability to handle guest, vendor, and staff challenges with tact and professionalism.
- Flexibility to work various shifts across multiple locations, including early mornings, late nights, weekends, and occasional overnight travel.
- Physical stamina to handle the demands of the kitchen, including moving and lifting up to 50 pounds.
Big Red F is in the business of PEOPLE. The people we work with and the people we welcome into our restaurants everyday - be it our guests, delivery drivers or visitors that walk through our front or back doors. Our continued success and longevity is due to the many unique, funky, authentic, righteous, passionate, amazing, hummmm-ble, honest, hard-working and dedicated PEOPLE who have worked within our walls and under our roofs since 1994.
So you're curious about what it's like to carry that torch and continue this legacy? Whether you are with us for a season, a year, or become one of the many, many people who have been family for 10, 15 and 20 years and beyond, the collective commitment of our teams in these restaurants is crucial to our success. We will lead, teach, laugh, struggle, win, learn and grow together, always knowing that we are only as good as our PEOPLE choose to make us. Every time the doors are unlocked, we strive to make good on the promises we make to each other and every one of our guests, which are:
- Great food and drinks.
- Truly memorable, intelligent, gracious, well dressed hospitality.
- Phenomenal, one of a kind, storied, respected and welcoming restaurant homes for our PEOPLE
- Clean and spotless, well run and proud kitchens.
- Charming and inviting, appropriately lit, well tuned and enjoyable dining rooms
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