Chef Manager 1

Parkhurst Dining; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free meal during shift

Discount on food purchases

Paid time off

Professional development

401k/vision/dental/medical plans

Job summary

Parkhurst Dining is seeking a Chef Manager 1 to lead culinary operations for a unit under $500K in volume. You will own menu development, cost controls, and budgeting while serving as the primary client liaison.

You will oversee staffing, training, and daily kitchen operations to ensure exceptional meals, sanitation, and guest satisfaction, partnering with district leadership as needed.

Qualifications

• Ten or more years of professional culinary experience, with six+ years in dining management.
• Bachelor’s or Associate’s Degree in Hospitality Management, Culinary Arts, Business Management or related field preferred or equivalent.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office; strong math and financials skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead culinary management for the unit, including budgeting, menu development, and cost controls.
• Manage staffing, hiring, and retention for culinary team; partner with district manager on staffing.
• Monitor dining operations to ensure quality, service, and cleanliness standards.
• Collaborate with client and staff to improve service, efficiency, and guest satisfaction.

Skills

Leadership

Budgeting

Culinary leadership

Menu development

Operations management

Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor's degree in Hospitality Management

Bachelor's or Associate's Degree in Culinary Arts/Business Management or related field

Tools

Excel

POS systems

Job description

Chef Manager 1 - Parkhurst Dining

Are you looking for a values-driven environment with opportunities to learn and grow? Do you want to join a fun, supportive team where you can build lifelong relationships? At Parkhurst Dining, a brand of Eat’n Park Hospitality Group, we’ve been creating smiles since 1949—one guest, one meal, and one team member at a time. Now we’re searching for a chef manager to join our team! Eat’n Park Hospitality Group represents a diverse family of brands that span more than a dozen states across more than 150 locations and with nearly 10,000 team members. We are a family-owned and operated company with deep roots that inspire our future. Our enduring commitment to our Core Values and our shared purpose, “to Create a Smile,” guide and fuel our growth as a group and as individuals.

Job Summary

As part of the management team, the chef manager is the lead culinarian in an account below $500K in managed volume. This individual has dual accountability as both the top owner of the client for their assigned unit and culinary leader for the unit. This is the senior leader of the unit who is responsible for planning, organizing, directing, and overseeing all activities and systems of a client. This leader functions as the key liaison with the client and is expected to make changes as needed to improve services, increase efficiency, manage costs, and meet client requirements. This role also ensures that Parkhurst standards of quality, service, and cleanliness are being met. This individual is responsible for budget development and compliance, revenue innovation, sanitation safety, regulatory compliance, menu development, preparation and service of food, and department staffing. This position monitors the dining operations to ensure exceptional culinary experiences for customers, clients, and guests. The chef manager leads the culinary management of food service operation to include inventory, ordering and receiving, menu development, catering, oversight, etc. and is the owner of the culinary cost controls and P&L accountability. This individual is responsible for staffing, developing the culinary hourly team and culinarians, and owns hourly recruiting and retention for their unit and partners with their district manager on management staffing and retention.

Essential Functions

Client, Customer and Guest Relations:

• Visits all dining areas to assess customer satisfaction levels; evaluates customer suggestions and implements changes as needed.
• Develops and maintains cooperative and congenial rapport with staff in other departments.
• Responds to client, customer, and guest meal surveys; identifies areas for improvement.
• Models the Smile Plus hospitality imperatives.

Financial Results

• Controls food costs through use of company production controls.
• Ensures that correct quantities of foods are prepared, and correct portions are served. Reviews portions with service staff as needed to avoid shortages.
• Is responsible for the ordering, receiving and storage of foods. Inspects deliveries to ensure wholesome foods are received in the correct quantities. Purchases food according to budget.
• Monitors food waste and overproduction; makes appropriate adjustments.

Qualifications

• Ten or more years of professional experience with six or more years of culinary job experience, in a higher education and/or corporate dining environment.
• Bachelor’s or Associate’s Degree in Hospitality Management, Culinary Arts, Business Management, ore related field preferred or equivalent job-related experience.
• Experienced with Microsoft office programs.
• Ability to organize workloads and meet time deadlines.
• Strong leadership and team management skills.
• Proficient skills in math and financial management including labor and food cost controls.

Benefits

• FREE meal during your shift.
• 20% discount on any food purchase at Eat’n Park, Hello Bistro, The Porch, and Parkhurst Dining.
• Paid time off.
• Access to continuous development with Smile Universe
• Eligibility for 401k, vision, dental, and medical plans.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

Eat’n Park Hospitality Group provides equal employment opportunities to all team members and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.