Chef de Cuisine: High-Volume, Year-Round with Ski Perks

Schweitzer; Park City (UT); Hybrid; USD 72,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ski perks

Healthcare options

401k plan with company match

Subsidized meals

Subsidized housing

Discounts for staff

Free staff ski lessons

Discounted rentals

Job summary

Schweitzer seeks an experienced Chef de Cuisine to lead the Royal Street Café’s kitchen, directing a high-volume operation and ensuring menu excellence with tight cost control. You will oversee chefs, cooks, and stewards, drive recipe standards, and maintain safety and sanitation in line with health codes.

You will assess trends, implement seasonal menus, manage purchasing, labor, and scheduling, while delivering superb guest service and profitability.

Qualifications

• Ten years of kitchen experience in a high-volume operation serving 500 guests or more.
• Five years of experience managing a kitchen operation of ten or more cooks.
• Solid understanding of kitchen accounting, cost tracking, labor control, ordering, scheduling, and menu engineering.
• Must be fluent in English.
• ServSafe certification from Health Department.

Responsibilities

• Stay knowledgeable of current food trends and develop new, creative menu items each season.
• Operate the kitchen and direct kitchen personnel, including Sous Chefs, Cooks, and Stewards at Royal Street Café.
• Maintain consistency of product with great attention to food quality, taste, and presentation.
• Control food costs based on forecasting, planned requisitioning, and product specs.
• Control labor costs and oversee forecasting, payroll, scheduling, training, and discipline.
• Direct purchasing procedures and ensure storeroom management.
• Maintain safe and sanitary working conditions per health codes.
• Collaborate with executive chefs to maintain quality across lodges.

Skills

Kitchen leadership

High-volume operation

Cost control

Labor management

Menu engineering

English fluency

ServSafe certified

Problem solving under pressure

Staff training

Job description

Schweitzer seeks an experienced Chef de Cuisine to lead the Royal Street Café’s kitchen, directing a high-volume operation and ensuring menu excellence with tight cost control. You will oversee chefs, cooks, and stewards, drive recipe standards, and maintain safety and sanitation in line with health codes.

You will assess trends, implement seasonal menus, manage purchasing, labor, and scheduling, while delivering superb guest service and profitability.