Executive Chef

Topgolf Payroll Services; New Braunfels (TX); On-site; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the entertainment industry seeks an Executive Chef to lead its culinary team. The role involves managing all culinary activities, ensuring top-notch meals, supervising staff, and maintaining kitchen operations. Candidates should have extensive experience in culinary management and a relevant degree.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years in culinary management.
• Proven ability to develop a culinary team.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Supervise the culinary team and ensure high-quality experiences.
• Manage culinary operations including labor and inventory.
• Plan and cost menus for events.

Skills

Culinary management

Leadership

Team development

Inventory management

Menu planning

Education

Bachelor's degree or related culinary degree

Job description

The Executive Chef ensures our guests receive best-in-class, off-the-chart, rockstar-level meals by leading the Kitchen Team and supervising all venue culinary activities. It requires two important skill sets - culinary management and great leadership.
The Executive Chef supervises, trains, coaches, and drives engagement with their team to ensure the highest-quality culinary experience for our guests. They also manage the culinary operations - scheduling labor, managing inventory, ordering product, ensuring safety and sanitation, maintaining kitchen areas and maintaining vendor relationships.

How You’ll Do It

• Supervise the team in providing best-in-class culinary experiences
• Coach and develop the team and drive Associate engagement
• Delegate tasks and work with your team
• Demonstrate Topgolf’s Core Values: Fun, One Team, Excellence, Edgy Spirit and Caring
• Monitor inventory and purchase product
• Maintain food and labor costs according to budget, with a full understanding of COGS
• Select and develop recipes to corporate approval
• Standardize production recipes to ensure consistent quality
• Establish presentation technique and maintain quality standards
• Plan and cost menus for special events, chef choice menus
• Ensure proper equipment operation and maintenance
• Oversee safety and sanitation in the kitchen
• Create action plans to respond to opportunities
• Communicate and effectively partner with upper management, Home Office Leadership and vendors

What We’re Looking For

• Minimum of 8 years in culinary management
• Proven ability to develop a culinary team
• Bachelor’s degree or related culinary degree preferred
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment
• Ability to stand and exert well-paced mobility for the duration of a scheduled shift
• Ability to stand and walk for extended periods of time
• Ability to lift items weighing up to 50 lb.
• Ability to stoop and bend
• Ability to work in high-temperature conditions (up to 100 degrees) for extended periods of time
  

ADA
The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of the job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some incumbents assigned to the job to perform a different combination of duties.

EEO Statement
Topgolf is a global sports and entertainment community and is committed to equal opportunity and is firmly committed to preventing discrimination and harassment, including sexual misconduct, based on legally protected diversity characteristics (such as race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family status, citizenship, genetic information and veteran status) in its application and hiring processes and in its employment decisions. As an affirmative action employer, Topgolf also takes steps to prevent retaliation and to create a respectful, equitable and inclusive environment for our Guests, Associates, business partners, vendors, and the communities we serve.

Topgolf is an equal opportunity affirmative action employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, genetics or any other category protected under applicable law.

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