Assistant Kitchen Manager- Fort Worth

PILF Restaurant Group; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 25,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Quarterly Bonus Eligibility

Dental insurance

Employee discount

Health insurance

Paid time off

Paid training

Vision insurance

Job summary

PILF Restaurant Group is seeking an Assistant Kitchen Manager in Fort Worth. The role supports kitchen leadership across Cane Rosso, Zoli's NY Pizza, Thunderbird Pies, and Side Hustle, with competitive pay and strong benefits.

The position offers paid time off, medical/dental/vision coverage, a quarterly bonus program, and thorough training to develop your culinary leadership career. Managers eat free and opportunities for advancement are available.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of varied kitchen positions (food prep, line cook, fry cook, expediter).
• Leadership position: at least 6 months of supervisory/management experience.
• Excellent communication, with managers, kitchen staff, and guests.
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment and multi-task.
• Able to stand for long periods (up to 9 hours).
• Able to lift up to 50 pounds.
• Willing to work 45–50 hours per week.
• Experience with POS, inventory program, and online ordering.

Responsibilities

• Implements and enforces rules, policies and procedures.
• Oversees training of new kitchen employees and maintains a positive environment.
• Ensures safety, sanitation and proper operation of kitchen equipment.
• Schedules BOH labor aligned with activity and cost objectives.
• Ensures compliance with health, safety and labor regulations.
• Aims for service quality, consistency, and appearance; maintains sanitation standards.
• Prepares paperwork, reports and schedules per regulations.
• Maintains cleaning schedules for floors, mats, walls, hoods and storage areas.
• Monitors equipment cleanliness and maintenance.
• Orders food/products per specifications; ensures correct counts and timely deliveries.
• Prepares and serves according to PILF recipes and standards.
• Manages food cost and usage; records waste.
• Performs weekly inventory, daily prep lists, and waste logs.
• Monitors food holding temps, dating and rotation.

Skills

Communication skills

Team leadership

Multi-tasking

Stamina

Stand for long hours

Education

Food service sanitation certificate

Tools

POS system

Inventory program

Online ordering

Job description

PILF Restaurant Group is seeking an Assistant Kitchen Manager in Fort Worth!

PILF Restaurant Group is the mastermind behind the concepts of Cane Rosso, Zoli's NY Pizza, Thunderbird Pies, and Side Hustle!

What's in it for you:

• Competitive salary depending on industry experience.
• One full week of paid vacation in the first year.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance is available
• Eligible for quarterly bonus!
• Thorough training and ongoing development to enhance career.
• Managers eat free!

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Implements and maintains rules, policies and procedures.
• Helps to oversee training of new kitchen employees. Creates a positive, productive, and empowering/motivating work environment.
• Ensures kitchen personnel are trained in the safe operation of all kitchen equipment and utensils, and in cleanliness and sanitation practices, processes, and requirements.
• Shares responsibility for scheduling BOH labor as required by anticipated business activity, while ensuring that all positions are staffed when and as needed, while ensuring labor cost objectives are met.
• Fully understands and complies with all federal, state, county and municipal regulations that pertain to the health, safety and labor requirements of the restaurant, employees, and guests.
• Achieves company objectives in service, quality, consistency, and appearance of facility. Upholds all sanitation and cleanliness standards and requirements. Helps to prepare required paperwork, including forms, reports and schedules, as it relates to PILF Restaurant Group, federal, state, county, municipal, and health department requirements/regulations, in an organized and timely manner.
• Implements and maintains appropriate cleaning schedules for kitchen floors, mats, walls, hoods, other equipment, and food storage areas.
• Ensures that all equipment is kept clean and kept in excellent working condition through personal inspection and by following the restaurant’s preventative maintenance programs.
• Ensures that all products are ordered according to predetermined product specifications and received in correct unit count and condition, on a timely-basis, and deliveries are performed in accordance with the restaurant’s receiving policies and procedures.
• Ensures food/products/orders are consistently and accurately prepared and served according to PILF Restaurant recipes, portioning, cooking and serving standards.
• Manages and maintains food cost and usage by following proper requisition of products from storage areas, product storage procedures, and standard recipe and waste control procedures.
• Performs weekly inventory logs, creates daily prep lists, and records waste after each shift.
• Checks and maintains proper food holding and refrigeration temperature control points along with proper dating procedures and product rotation.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in varied kitchen positions including food preparation, line cook, fry cook, and expediter; minimum 6 months in a leadership/management position.
• Must have excellent communication skills, and be able to clearly communicate with managers, kitchen and dining room personnel, and guests.
• Be able to work in a fast-paced environment and have the ability to multi-task
• Be able to work in a standing position for long periods of time (up to 9 hours).
• Be able to reach, bend, stoop and frequently lift up to 50 pounds.
• Must have the stamina to work 45-50 hours per week.
• Experience with working with a POS, inventory program, and online ordering
• Must have a food service sanitation certificate.

We're proud to be a discrimination-free, Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to equality and kindness.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Quarterly Bonus Eligibility
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Paid training
• Vision insurance