Chef De Cuisine Restaurant

Job Number 23115929
Job Category Food and Beverage & Culinary
Location The Ritz-Carlton Jakarta Pacific Place, Sudirman Central Business District Jl. Jendral Sudirman, Jakarta, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta, Indonesia VIEW ON MAP
Schedule Full-Time
Located Remotely? N
Relocation? N
Position Type Management
Job Summary
Accountable for the quality, consistency and production of the restaurant kitchen. Exhibits culinary talents by personally performing tasks while leading the staff and managing all food related functions. Coordinates menus, purchasing, staffing and food preparation for the property's restaurant. Works with team to improve guest and employee satisfaction while maintaining the operating budget. Must ensure sanitation and food standards are achieved. Develops and trains team to improve results.
CANDIDATE PROFILE
Education And Experience

• High school diploma or GED; 4 years experience in the culinary, food and beverage, or related professional area.

OR

• 2-year degree from an accredited university in Culinary Arts, Hotel and Restaurant Management, or related major; 2 years experience in the culinary, food and beverage, or related professional area.

CORE WORK ACTIVITIES
Ensuring Culinary Standards And Responsibilities Are Met For Restaurant

• Assists in developing daily and seasonal menu items for the restaurant.
• Maintains food preparation handling and correct storage standards.
• Ensures compliance with all applicable laws and regulations regulations.
• Prepares and cooks foods of all types, either on a regular basis or for special guests or functions.
• Communications production needs to key personnel.
• Develops, designs, or creates new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions for restaurant.
• Checks the quality of raw and cooked food products to ensure that standards are met.
• Follows proper handling and right temperature of all food products.
• Determines how food should be presented and creates decorative food displays.
• Recognizes superior quality products, presentations and flavor.
• Plans and manages food quantities and plating requirements for the restaurant.
• Estimates daily restaurant production needs.
• Supervises restaurant kitchen shift operations and ensures compliance with all Food & Beverage policies, standards and procedures.

Leading Kitchen Team

• Serving as a role model to demonstrate appropriate behaviors.
• Supervises and manages restaurant kitchen employees. Managing all day-to-day operations. Understanding employee positions well enough to perform duties in employees' absence.
• Ensures employees understand expectations and parameters.
• Leads shift teams while personally preparing food items and executing requests based on required specifications.
• Ensures employees are cross-trained to support successful daily operations.
• Ensuring and maintaining the productivity level of employees.
• Encourages and builds mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
• Utilizes interpersonal and communication skills to lead, influence, and encourage others; advocates sound financial/business decision making; demonstrates honesty/integrity; leads by example.
• Supervises and coordinates activities of cooks and workers engaged in food preparation.
• Establishes and maintains open, collaborative relationships with employees and ensures employees do the same within the team.

Establishing and Maintaining Restaurant Kitchen Goals

• Developing specific guidance and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish daily kitchen operations work.
• Sets and supports achievement of kitchen goals including performance goals, budget goals, team goals, etc.
• Effectively investigates, reports and follows-up on employee accidents.
• Knows and implements company safety standards.
• Understands the impact of kitchen operation on the overall property financial goals and objectives and manages to achieve or exceed budgeted goals.

Ensuring Exceptional Customer Service

• Empowers employees to provide excellent customer service.
• Handles guest problems and complaints.
• Emphasizes guest satisfaction during all departmental meetings and focuses on continuous improvement.
• Interacts with guests to obtain feedback on product quality and service levels.
• Manages day-to-day operations, ensuring the quality, standards and meeting the expectations of the customers on a daily basis.
• Improves service by communicating and assisting individuals to understand guest needs, providing guidance, feedback, and individual coaching when needed.
• Provides services that are above and beyond for customer satisfaction and retention.
• Sets a positive example for guest relations.

Managing and Conducting Human Resource Activities

• Uses all available on the job training tools for employees.
• Manages employee progressive discipline procedures.
• Assists as needed in the interviewing and hiring of employee team members with appropriate skills.
• Identifies the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
• Participates in training restaurant staff on menu items including ingredients, preparation methods and unique tastes.
• Participates in the employee performance appraisal process, providing feedback as needed.

Additional Responsibilities

• Attends and participates in all pertinent meetings.
• Provides information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
• Analyzes information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.

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