Executive Chef - Prime Fine Dining Kitchen Leader

Arizona Culinary; Chandler, Northern (AZ, KY); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Gila River Resorts & Casinos in Chandler, AZ is seeking a seasoned culinary leader to oversee the Prime Restaurant team. You will supervise the Chef de Cuisine, Sous Chefs, and Cooks, ensuring exceptional guest experiences, quality, and consistency in menu execution.

This role emphasizes cost control, staff development, and adherence to food safety standards while maintaining the goals of profitability and compliance.

Qualifications

• Oversee daily culinary operations to ensure guest satisfaction.
• Manage budgeting, portion control, inventory, and labor costs.
• Ensure recipes and standards are followed for consistency and quality.

Responsibilities

• Promotes and provides excellent guest service experience to both internal and external guests.
• Ensures budgeted food percentages are achieved through effective control measures including portion controls, kitchen timings, food inventory rotation measures, receiving and food storage procedures, inventory controls, effective purchasing procedures, kitchen security procedures and waste control.
• Controls labor costs through effective managing of culinary leaders, cross-training and development of team members.
• Ensures that the purchasing and preparation of all food products meet company standards of quality and consistency. This positions primary focus is to ensure the recipes at Prime Restaurant are maintained and executed as directed.
• Monitors production of food preparation ensuring recipe specifications, portion controls and kitchen timings are met. Monitors all food served relative to appearance, temperature, sanitary and quality standards.
• Provides accurate costing on all menu items to Executive Chef
• Ensures the coordination of the storage, maintenance and repair of all kitchen equipment to ensure operational readiness.

Job description

Gila River Resorts & Casinos in Chandler, AZ is seeking a seasoned culinary leader to oversee the Prime Restaurant team. You will supervise the Chef de Cuisine, Sous Chefs, and Cooks, ensuring exceptional guest experiences, quality, and consistency in menu execution.

This role emphasizes cost control, staff development, and adherence to food safety standards while maintaining the goals of profitability and compliance.