Guy Fieri's Kitchen Manager

Avolta AG; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading restaurant and culinary service provider in Phoenix is seeking a Kitchen Manager to oversee daily operations, ensuring quality and cleanliness while managing staff. Responsibilities include staff training, inventory control, and compliance with culinary standards. The ideal candidate will have a High School diploma or GED, 2+ years of experience in kitchen operations, and strong management skills. This role promises a dynamic environment focused on excellence in customer service and culinary quality.

Qualifications

• Requires 2 or more years of job-related experience in medium volume kitchen operations.
• Demonstrates knowledge of product, customer service, and operational standards.
• Requires ability to speak, read, and comprehend instructions.

Responsibilities

• Oversee daily kitchen staffing and ensure cleanliness.
• Train kitchen staff and ensure recipe compliance.
• Maintain inventory levels and equipment functionality.

Skills

Team management

Delegation

Issue resolution

Customer service

Education

High School diploma or GED

Inter-Provincial Red Seal certification in cooking

Job description

The Kitchen Manager supports the manager of a restaurant with medium sales volume and moderately complex kitchen and culinary operations and is responsible for day‑to‑day supervision of and assignment of work to non‑management associates. This position is also responsible for implementing kitchen and culinary changes, as well as performing all other responsibilities as directed by the business or assigned Management of which associate is capable of performing. This is an exempt position and typically reports to the Restaurant Manager, depending on local requirements.

Essential Functions

• Ensures on a daily basis that the kitchen is staffed appropriately, the kitchen is clean, inventory levels are appropriate and equipment is working properly.
• Supervises the day to day activities of kitchen staff and assigns responsibilities for specified work.
• Continually monitors and updates prep, par and pull sheets.
• Trains cooks and prep cooks.
• Ensures recipe compliance and completes self‑inspection reports.
• Ensures expediting is performed correctly.
• Maintains planograms for walk‑ins.
• Identifies hiring, firing, advancement, promotion or any other associate status change needs of the kitchen staff.
• Complies with company and franchise standards of operation procedures, as well as those of all applicable regulatory agencies, and ensures on a daily basis that all products are prepared and presented in accordance with brand or company standards.
• Provides the highest quality of customer service to the customers at all times, to include ensuring the proper training of all staff and supporting associates to ensure customer satisfaction and product quality.

Minimum Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, and Work Environment

• Requires a High School diploma or general education development (GED) diploma; Inter‑Provincial Red Seal certification in cooking preferred; brand certification a plus.
• Requires 2 or more years of job‑related experience in medium volume and/or multi‑unit kitchen operations; 3 or more years preferred.
• Demonstrates knowledge of product, customer service, services and quality standards required, equipment and operations standards required.
• Demonstrates team management, delegation, issue resolution, coaching skills and ability to motivate others and act as a change agent.
• Demonstrates organization and multi‑project time/issue management.
• Requires the ability to speak, read and comprehend instructions, short correspondence and policy documents, as well as converse comfortably with individuals.

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