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As the leader in business and industry dining, Eurest is the company to join if you want a rewarding career packed with limitless opportunities. We feed the employees of the nation's largest and most-prestigious companies -- in every state and across all industries. As a member of Eurest's leadership and professional support team, you will help our 16,000 chefs, and in-unit associates excel as they deliver world-class meals in corporate cafes and executive dining rooms with on-site catering through vending innovations and more.
Our company is innovative, high performing and fast growing. Our teammates are enthusiastic, committed to quality and thrive on consistently delivering unparalleled results. And did we mention we work with exciting companies and at interesting locations?
Working as an Executive Chef for Eurest will allow you the opportunity to work with GREAT people like yourself! You will be surrounded by people that are passionate about what they do.
Executive Chef - you are responsible for overseeing all culinary functions for a corporate dining account. You will manage and lead a team of associates and oversee all safety and sanitation as it pertains to the account. Additionally, as part of the culinary team, you will be responsible for the following:
- Responsible for overseeing all culinary staff, and production of a single, or multi-unit operation.
- Responsible for meeting and sustaining Eurest/Compass Culinary blueprint and standards, as well as any client driven initiatives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Purchasing and managing inventory
- Roll out new culinary programs in conjunction with Eurest/Compass marketing and culinary team
- Responsible for the food cost of a single, or multi-unit foodservice account
- Manage and lead a culinary team in areas of safety and sanitation as it pertains to the account, county ordinance, and client mandated QA standards.
- Responsible for developing and writing menus, through use of Compass approved menu database software. Promotes use of station based production sheets, recipes, and quality assurance tracking logs, through generation of reports from menu based software.
Food Production
- Plans and manages food production including: menu planning, inventory, production sheets, recipes usage, inventory, quality adherence to standards
- May be responsible for the hands on production of one or more foodservice stations, based upon account needs.
- Responsible for the oversight of the productivity of all culinary staff, to include safe food handling practices, time management, and quality assurance.
- Ensures correct service, storage, labeling, cooling, and discard procedures for hot and cold food production is adhered to.
- Ensures menu meets contract wellness criteria and guidelines
- Ensures timely meal service to all service areas. Supervises service delivery during peak times
- Personally checks the quality of foods served at each station, both breakfast and lunch, every day, as part of pre shift routine.
Facilities Management
- Inspects daily the facility and reports deviations from standard as needed
- Inspects and manages daily-weekly-monthly sanitation/cleaning schedules and tasks pertaining to foodservice facility and equipment
- Places work orders and alerts vendors as needed for repairs
- Uses contract process maps to report issues to FSD or GM
Quality Assurance
- Executes and controls the contract QA program including: training, auditing, reporting, regular and deep-cleaning schedules and daily checklists
- Maintains and communicates a safety/security mindset which protects both the assets of the unit and the personal safety of employees and customers
- Conducts regular QA & Culinary Safety Employee trainings
- Manages and monitors Food Safety and Sanitation to Compass and specifically to contract SLA requirement (audits, trainings, reports, checklists). Monitors and motivates QA champions activity on Campus
Financial Management
- Responsible for profitability of the food program, from a cost perspective
- Manages and mitigates financial loss through waste management, and loss prevention, portion control and adherence.
- Prepares and adjusts work schedules to ensure productivity levels and budget compliance
- Manages food cost with FSD/GM to budget or best levels
- Responsible for Inventory of goods
- Implements culinary programs and directives to drive sales and profitability
Talent Management & HR
- Implements and maintains effective two way communication systems which reach all culinary staff supervised.
- Conducts annual employee appraisals. Defines development plan for each culinary associate supervised.
- Plans and conducts training sessions and development activities for all supervised culinary staff.
- Interviews. Hires, trains, evaluates and discharges culinary staff (Discharges require the review of the FSD/GM).
- Manages in compliance with local, state and federal laws and regulations.
Qualifications:
- Ideal candidate possesses Associate or higher level degree in Culinary Arts, or commensurate experience.
- Dynamic, passionate, and creatively minded culinary professional, geared towards excellence
- 3 years managerial, progressive kitchen/foodservice experience is required. Culinary experience in upper scale restaurants is preferred
- Excellent written and verbal communication and computer skills are needed, including knowledge of MS Office products
- Serve Safe certified
- Demonstrated knowledge of ability to manage food costs and drive and motivate a culinary team in a diverse and challenging environment, while maintaining high standards, and rewarding a team with positive reinforcement is essential.
- Requires Kitchen Manager, Sous Chef, or previous Executive Chef experience
- High volume production and catering experience is essential
- Desire to learn and grow with a top notch foodservice company
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Compass Group is an equal opportunity employer. At Compass, we are committed to treating all Applicants and Associates fairly based on their abilities, achievements, and experience without regard to race, national origin, sex, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other classification protected by law.
Location: Illinois-Chicago
Activation Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Expiration Date: Saturday, January 20, 2018
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