Head Chef - High-Volume Resort Kitchen & Menu Lead

Hershey Entertainment & Resorts Company; Lancaster (Lancaster County); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free Hersheypark admission

Employee discounts

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401K contribution

Paid time off

Job summary

Hershey Lodge in Hershey, PA, invites a Chef de Cuisine to lead culinary operations for a 6- to 8-person team, ensuring top food quality and guest satisfaction. Reporting to the Executive Sous Chef, you will develop menus, coach staff, and manage food costs and labor within a high-volume venue that offers a warm, Hershey-branded dining experience.

The role includes ensuring safety compliance, staffing interviews, and collaborating with purchasing to source quality products while maintaining

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of related experience.
• Minimum of 2 years supervisory experience.
• Experience in high-volume a la carte and banquet operations.
• Completion of high school or GED.
• Associate’s degree in Culinary Arts.
• Post-Employment – ServSafe Certificate.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate and reinforce compliance with food handling and sanitation standards to FDA Food Code and State of Pennsylvania standards.
• Challenge and train the culinary team for development and advancement; provide regular coaching and performance reviews.
• Participate in interviewing, training, scheduling, and motivating culinary staff.
• Collaborate with stewarding managers to ensure safe, clean, sanitary standards are maintained.
• Develop menus with input from the culinary and food and beverage teams; align with restaurant identity and price point.
• Maintain up-to-date recipes and plating sheets for training and consistency; coordinate dietary needs.
• Requisition supplies and partner with purchasing to ensure quality products on hand.
• Maintain costing, inventory levels, and processes to support budgeted food costs; manage labor costs.

Skills

5+ years related experience

2+ years supervisory experience

High-volume la carte & banquet ops

High school diploma or GED

Associate degree in Culinary Arts

ServSafe Certificate

Education

Associate’s degree – Culinary Arts

ServSafe Certificate

Job description

Hershey Lodge in Hershey, PA, invites a Chef de Cuisine to lead culinary operations for a 6- to 8-person team, ensuring top food quality and guest satisfaction. Reporting to the Executive Sous Chef, you will develop menus, coach staff, and manage food costs and labor within a high-volume venue that offers a warm, Hershey-branded dining experience.

The role includes ensuring safety compliance, staffing interviews, and collaborating with purchasing to source quality products while maintaining