Executive Chef – Fine Dining & Luxury Resident Dining

Holbrook Life Management- Sugar; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Holbrook Life Management- Sugar in Alpharetta, GA seeks an Executive Chef AP/EL/IL Hybrid to lead blended culinary operations, delivering restaurant‑quality meals with resident dignity, dietary accuracy, and strong leadership.

You will supervise culinary and dietary teams, manage menus, ensure food safety per HACCP, and collaborate with wellness, nursing, and leadership to meet community needs.

Qualifications

• Leadership of kitchen and dietary teams to best-in-class standards.
• Ensure menus meet resident preferences and physician orders.
• Maintain HACCP, ServSafe, and regulatory compliance across venues.
• Oversee inventory, cost controls, and quality of product.
• Coordinate dining experiences including events, banquets, and tastings.
• Collaborate with wellness, nursing, and general manager to protect resident dignity.

Responsibilities

• Establish resident and guest service, satisfaction, dignity, and loyalty as a daily priority through personal example, visibility, follow‑through, and professional communication.
• Lead culinary operations across assigned AP, EL, and/or IL venues, including restaurant service, dining room support, lounge support, Zinnia Cafe support where applicable, catering, banquets, events, resident programming, daily features, special menus, snacks, and nourishment needs.
• Execute high-quality, fresh, seasonal, and visually appealing food aligned with Holbrook standards, approved menus, resident preferences, dietary requirements, local product sourcing, vendor partnerships, and community expectations.
• Ensure meals are prepared and served according to approved menus, resident preferences, physician orders, diet needs, allergens, texture requirements, portion standards, and company standards.
• Partner with Wellness, nursing, dining leadership, service leadership, sales/community relations, and the General Manager to ensure resident dietary needs, confidentiality, resident rights, and hospitality expectations are protected.
• Maintain accurate diet communication, resident preference systems, tray/service accuracy, nourishment standards, food committee follow‑up, resident concern documentation, and timely issue resolution.
• Maintain strong controls over food quality, recipe execution, portioning, presentation, ticket times, production sheets, line checks, waste, ordering, receiving, inventory, labeling, dating, and storage standards.
• Maintain a holistic approach to resident dining, including no added salt, no concentrated sweets, mechanical soft, texture‑modified items, hydration, snacks, and resident‑specific accommodations as directed.
• Use TOAST POS reporting, approved menu tools, production sheets, ordering systems, spenddown controls, sales data, product mix, ICON dining feedback, resident concerns, and operational feedback to improve execution, forecasting, consistency, and profitability.
• Ensure all hot food, cold food, cooling, reheating, labeling, dating, allergen, infection control, Universal Precautions, and HACCP practices meet or exceed company, ServSafe, and regulatory requirements.
• Maintain strong vendor relationships with an emphasis on quality product, correct item codes, fresh product standards, local produce, high‑quality meats/seafood, receiving accuracy, substitutions, credits, and responsible issue resolution.
• Plan and support wine dinners, chef tables, resident tastings, marketing events, banquets, PR events, family events, and community differentiators with creativity and operational discipline.
• Maintain kitchens, storage areas, walk‑ins, freezers, prep areas, utility rooms, service lines, equipment, smallwares, and production spaces in inspection‑ready condition at all times.
• Attend and participate in leadership meetings, resident food committees, QA meetings, care‑related discussions as appropriate, culinary meetings, and community events.

Skills

Culinary leadership

Menu planning

Vendor relations

Regulatory compliance

Allergen awareness

Team development

Job description

Holbrook Life Management- Sugar in Alpharetta, GA seeks an Executive Chef AP/EL/IL Hybrid to lead blended culinary operations, delivering restaurant‑quality meals with resident dignity, dietary accuracy, and strong leadership.

You will supervise culinary and dietary teams, manage menus, ensure food safety per HACCP, and collaborate with wellness, nursing, and leadership to meet community needs.