Deli Sous Chef

PENN Entertainment, Inc.; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A culinary management company in Los Angeles is seeking a dedicated supervisor to oversee staff and ensure high standards of food and beverage operations. Candidates must have an associate's degree in culinary management plus four years of experience in a busy food establishment. Key responsibilities include staff training, adherence to health regulations, and supporting compliance with operational goals. Enthusiastic customer service and proficiency in Microsoft applications are essential for success in this role.

Qualifications

• Four years’ experience in a large volume, high-quality food establishment.
• Ability to write reports and business correspondence.
• Knowledge of menu planning and culinary procedures.

Responsibilities

• Assists in hiring and training staff.
• Provides daily supervision and guidance to staff.
• Ensures compliance with health standards and cleanliness.

Skills

Proficient in Microsoft applications

Problem resolution

Staff development

Education

Associate degree in culinary management

Tools

Excel

Word

Job description

Responsibilities

• Assists in hiring and training, and responsible for motivating, evaluating, and supervising staff on assigned shift to ensure employees receive adequate guidance and resources to accomplish established objectives.
• Responsible for providing guidance and daily supervision to staff in the department. Supports and administers operational goals and monitors achievements of performance and profit objectives.
• Adheres to scheduling and coordinates with manager any scheduling concerns, with attention to guest satisfaction.
• Produces menu items as listed in each restaurant. Follows all prep lists and ensures kitchens are stocked and ready for service.
• Responsible for supporting compliance to departmental budgets.
• Enthusiastically supports, actively promotes, and demonstrates superior customer service in accordance with department and company standards and programs. Ensures customer service standards are followed by all team members and addresses issues as they arise.
• Assists with maintaining of cost control methods and procedures by monitoring consistent pars and inventory in each restaurant.
• Assist Executive Chef with administrative duties, such as tracking/maintenance of attendance records.
• Assists with maintaining established quality assurance procedures to ensure acceptable health department and customer service standards.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with all regulatory compliance within area of responsibility and reporting potential issues to management.
• Assists in managing overall Food & Beverage operations, creating differentiated service experience and ensuring optimum performance of all.
• Ensures cleanliness and hygiene of work area, tabletops, floors, food, and food bar equipment are in accordance with company standards. Ensures compliance to standards set for proper care and cleaning of all heavy equipment, floor drains, vents, trash areas, and dock areas.
• Maintains strict confidentiality in all departmental and company matters.
• Assists Sportsbook Sous Chef, as needed.

This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive and team members may also be asked to perform other reasonable related duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Responsible for staff development and training programs.
• Responsible for rewards and recognition program to maximize employee engagement.
• Evaluates team members within department and delivers constructive feedback to employees regarding performance.
• Determines recommendation for staffing (including interviewing and hiring) and scheduling (planning, assigning, and directing work) to meet business needs.
• Determines work procedures and expedites workflow.
• Responsible for employee performance (disciplining, coaching, counseling).

Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Must be proficient in Microsoft applications (Excel, Access, Word, Outlook).
• Manages work procedures and expedites workflow.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• Must have the ability to interact with guests, staff and colleagues and resolve problems and conflicts in a diplomatic and tactful manner.
• Other duties as needed.

Education and/or Experience

• Associate degree from accredited college/university of related culinary management program.
• Four years’ progressively more challenging experience in a large volume, high-quality food establishment.
• Knowledge of menu planning, culinary procedures, soups, sauces, meat, poultry and seafood items.
• Knowledge of Food & Labor costs; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Language Skills

Ability to read and interpret documents in English, such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals. Ability to read and communicate verbally in English. Written communication skills in English may also be required.

Mathematical Skills

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume and distance. Possess ability to operate an adding machine and have basic computer skills.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Certifications, Licenses, Registrations

Employee must be able to qualify for licenses and permits required by federal, state and local regulations.

Must possess a valid driver’s license and have acceptable driving history as determined by Penn National Gaming’s auto insurance carrier.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee frequently is required to reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and peripheral vision.

Physically mobile with reasonable accommodations including ability to push, pull, carry and lift up to 25 lbs., and the ability to push, pull, reach, bend, twist, stoop, stack, crouch, kneel and balance when performing job duties in varying work areas such as confined spaces. Team Members must be drug free.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those a Team Member encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• All Team Members at Hollywood are under surveillance (and audio surveillance in limited areas). Performance may be observed and recorded.
• Employee could be exposed to an environment containing unrestricted second-hand tobacco smoke.