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Join a leading nutrition-focused restaurant in New York City as a Culinary Experience Team Lead. You will set culinary standards, prepare delicious dishes, and mentor a dynamic team. If you're passionate about food, health, and community, this role is your opportunity to make an impact.
MAKE YOUR IMPACT
Impact Kitchen is here to impact the lifestyle of New York City!
Impact Kitchen is a nutrition focused all day restaurant & cafe serving breakfast, brunch, lunch & dinner. We are 100% free of gluten, refined sugars and seed oils. Make an Impact everyday with smoothies, power bowls, coffee, baked goods and endless other nutrient-dense options.
Founded in Toronto in 2015, Impact Kitchen is the brainchild of two incredible innovators: personal trainer and nutrition expert Josh Broun, and M·A·C Cosmetics co-founder Frank Toskan. In addition to our restaurant presence, Impact Kitchen fuels many major league sports teams and top athletes through catering and culinary partnerships.
We are incredibly excited to share that this job posting is for our first New York based location, Impact Kitchen Nomad. Impact Kitchen Nomad will be opening in summer 2025. Together we can make an Impact Everyday.
WHAT MAKES IMPACT KITCHEN UNIQUE? Our Values
We honour our food philosophy and make sustainable decisions while providing world-class hospitality. We ensure you feel the impact of our passion, every day.
From our teammates to our customers and partners, we are a community. We connect, inspire and make an Impact together, every day.
We are constantly evolving and building for a better tomorrow. We believe that our habits truly make an Impact, every day.
Our Culture
Impact Kitchen prides itself on creating an incredible environment for those inside and outside our organization. We think like a professional team and are always training for the championship.
Our Stats
If health and wellness excites you, if providing wholesome food and empowering others to make healthy choices drives you, and if you are looking for opportunities to grow alongside a dynamic team, then working with Impact might be a great fit for you!
CULINARY EXPERIENCE TEAM LEAD
As a Culinary Experience Team Lead (CETL) at Impact Kitchen you set the culinary standard high and are passionate to ensure guests enjoy their experience through incredible food. You create delectable and consistent dishes for dine-in and take-out guests, support back of house operations and partner with your Guest Experience counterparts on the team. You are an integral team member as you prepare a variety of beverages to high standards and with a quick turn around.
Culinary Experience Team Leads are highly flexible individuals responsible for dishwashing, preparing and working both Hot and Cold line kitchen stations supporting Impact Kitchen’s breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner menu. As proper food handling, food safety, and consistent recipe preparation are all vital to this position, a primary role of the CETL position is to support the leadership of business success through an engaged team while monitoring sanitation, food quality, and food freshness. This position is highly physical; therefore, individuals must possess a strong level of physical stamina. Ideal candidates are efficient, flexible, possess superior time management skills, are team players, and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
As an Impact Kitchen Culinary Experience Team Lead you are a developing expert in your niche and are the teams go-to resource when it comes to all things culinary experience. You are a trainer and facilitate coaching and knowledge transfer instinctually. You aim to see your team succeed and support management with the successful operation of the business. This role has keys to our restaurant and leads by example with every action. The natural progression from this role is to Culinary Experience Manager.
COMPENSATION
Guest Experience Team Members earn $20.00/hour, paid time off for Full Time staff, and receive a substantial discount on Impact Kitchen products and have flexible scheduling to accommodate a healthy balanced lifestyle.
TEAM & DEPARTMENT
Culinary Experience Team Leads make an impact everyday through our back-of-house operations and support the leadership of a large portion of our total team population. In this role you will have the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues from multiple levels of the organization while being the main point of food production for our guests. The Culinary Experience Team LEad reports to Culinary Experience Management including the Assistant Culinary Experience Manager, Culinary Experience Manager and General Manager of each Restaurant.
The first entry point for our culinary inclined leaders, the Culinary Experience Team Lead is the perfect knowledge incubator and team coach. Those that excel in their capacity at a CETL have the opportunity to succeed to an Assistant Culinary Experience Manager role where they build on their ability to train and develop top talent for the organization while also learning more about running a successful restaurant.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
SKILLS
This job posting is for an existing vacancy within Impact Kitchen. We are looking to fill this position with a qualified candidate as soon as possible.
INCLUSIVITY AT IMPACT
Impact Kitchen feeds a diverse community and is made stronger by a diverse team. We welcome and encourage applications from our entire community equally. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the decision to hire is based solely on business needs, experience and future potential. Hiring is not determined or influenced by any classification of an individual as protected by the laws that govern the region for which the prospective individual would work within. This is true for all practices and policies within the employee journey/lifecycle.
Impact Kitchen supports alternative ways to interview and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Should you require a reasonable accommodation, please indicate in your application. Both Impact Kitchen management and the applicant share responsibility to communicate and reasonably accommodate.