Chef de Cuisine: Lead High-Volume Dining & Team Growth

Hershey Entertainment & Resorts Company; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

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Job summary

Hershey Lodge in Hershey, PA, part of Hershey Entertainment and Resorts, seeks a Chef de Cuisine to lead a culinary team of 6 to 8 in a high-volume, high-quality operation. This full-time role reports to the Executive Sous Chef and focuses on menu development, training, and maintaining food safety and guest satisfaction.

You will collaborate with the Executive Sous Chef and Executive Chef to design menus aligned with the restaurant's identity and price point, manage costs, schedules, and staff

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years related experience.
• Minimum of 2 years supervisory experience.
• 18 Years of age or older.
• Experience in high-volume a la carte and banquet operations.
• Completion of high school or GED.
• Associate’s degree – Culinary Arts.
• Post-Employment – ServSafe Certificate.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate and reinforce compliance with food handling and sanitation standards to FDA Food Code and State of Pennsylvania standards. Ensure well executed food preparation, sanitation, and safety standards in the kitchens.
• Challenge and train the culinary team for development and advancement. Provide regular coaching and performance reviews for employee development. Use hands-on training to further develop culinary team members of all levels including cooks, interns, apprentices and stewarding team members.
• Participate in the interviewing, training, scheduling, and motivating culinary staff.
• Collaborate with stewarding managers and employees to ensure safe, clean and sanitary standards are maintained.
• Evaluate, plan and facilitate employee engagement with ongoing communication and utilizing the engagement survey.
• Develop menus in collaboration with the Executive Sous Chef and Executive Chef utilizing input from the culinary and food and beverage teams. Menus will be consistent with the restaurant's identity and price point.
• Maintain up-to-date recipes and plate presentation sheets for training and consistency. Coordinate all aspects of guest dietary needs for safe preparation of meals.
• Requisition supplies and partner with the purchasing team to ensure quality product is on hand.
• Maintain up-to-date costing, appropriate food inventory levels, and processes to support the budgeted food cost targets.
• Manage labor costs to budget through effective scheduling and daily management of labor.
• Perform other duties as assigned

Skills

Team leadership

Coaching

Food safety

Quality control

Education

Associate’s degree – Culinary Arts

High school diploma or GED

ServSafe Certification

Job description

Hershey Lodge in Hershey, PA, part of Hershey Entertainment and Resorts, seeks a Chef de Cuisine to lead a culinary team of 6 to 8 in a high-volume, high-quality operation. This full-time role reports to the Executive Sous Chef and focuses on menu development, training, and maintaining food safety and guest satisfaction.

You will collaborate with the Executive Sous Chef and Executive Chef to design menus aligned with the restaurant's identity and price point, manage costs, schedules, and staff