Chef YYZ

Newrest Catering Ltd; Toronto; On-site; CAD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Newrest Catering Ltd is seeking a skilled Chef to join their dynamic kitchen team in Toronto. The ideal candidate will showcase strong culinary skills, leadership in managing food preparation, and a commitment to quality standards. This role involves coordinating daily operations and ensuring adherence to specific menu requirements for catering and airline services.

Qualifications

• Solid culinary background required.
• Experience in restaurant or catering environments is essential.

Responsibilities

• Oversee daily food preparation and production.
• Ensure consistency, quality, and adherence to airline specifications.
• Supervise kitchen staff and manage prep list.

Skills

Leadership

Culinary Skills

Communication

Job description

We are currently hiring a Chef to join our dynamic kitchen team. The ideal candidate will have a solid culinary background, strong leadership skills, and experience in restaurant or catering environments. The Chef is responsible for overseeing daily food preparation and production, ensuring consistency, quality, and adherence to airline specifications.

Responsibilities:

• Have the ability to demonstrate a complete understanding of the required menus
• Prepare meats, fishes, pastas, side dishes and garnishes following recipes carefully
• Roast, fry, steam, grill, bake meats, fishes, vegetables as required by recipes
• Prepares food by cleaning, peeling, mincing, cutting, chopping, mixing portioning, measuring ingredients, packaging and labelling
• Maintain proper food production records, ensure all equipment is operable
• Responsible for sanitation and post-service set-up
• Notify manager of any maintenance repairs need or unsafe conditions
• Taste and smell prepared food to determine quality and palatability
• Monitor temperature of hot and cold foods through food preparation and service to ensure that established temperature goals are met prior to steam table transfer and maintained throughout meal service
• Studies recipes assigned by the Executive Chef, prepares and coordinates all meals
• Coordinates prep for the following day’s menus
• Supervises cooks and perp workers, manage the prep list to plan duties
• Ensures standard of recipes to maintain consistent quality
• Plans, modifies and develops menus based on the airlines requirements
• Performs pre-meal meeting with food directors and other team members to review detail of the menus and plan the production
• Provides training for kitchen staff
• Assists in the coordination and execution of special menus for client presentations
• Ensures all kitchen equipment is in working order and kept clean at all times
• Wear food safety equipment while on duty, use work safety equipment while on duty
• Maintain good portion control and forecast of production
• Practice proper grooming, personal hygiene, and use safety equipment
• Make sure that staff places racks of products in cooling tunnel or any other available waiting area, stocked and ready to go
• Communicate effectively with kitchen personnel & other unit departments
• Compliance with all company service standards, health & safety procedures, food safety requirements
• Perform other duties as assigned