Hotel Kitchen Lead — Elevate Guest Dining

Choice Hotels International; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 21,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

The Radisson Hotel Salt Lake City Downtown, part of Choice Hotels' portfolio, is looking for its next Culinary Team member to elevate the F&B experience. Join a dynamic kitchen team dedicated to quality and guest satisfaction.

You will maintain recipes, enforce health guidelines, and assist in menu planning for banquets, restaurants and bars while coaching kitchen staff and participating in interviews. This role demands hands-on kitchen leadership, attention to detail, and strong communication

Responsibilities

• Maintains current and seasonal recipes for menu items
• Familiar with and enforces food safety and health guidelines
• Relays feedback of kitchen employees to department manager
• Provides input for creation of banquet, restaurant, and bar menus
• Completes daily food production sheets and other reports
• Checks all stations to ensure proper setup, cleaning, and take down before and after each shift
• Inspect orders to ensure the quality and presentation meets restaurant standards
• Manages kitchen staff
• Trains kitchen staff
• Leads periodic meetings with kitchen staff to coach on new recipes and kitchen processes
• Conducts interviews with potential hires upon request
• Prepares and inspects food to maintain quality standards
• Cuts meat and prepares food for cook stations
• Inspects ingredients upon delivery and before use to ensure quality
• Assists in quarterly inventories
• Shares food and beverage complaints with Executive Chef and works to resolve
• Ensures department adheres to Choice Hotels, local and state health, hygiene and safety policies
• Works with other departments to efficiently operate kitchen
• Coordinates kitchen staffing and food quantities with high volume periods for banquets, Complimentary Breakfast, restaurants, and bar
• Reports special requests, food spoilage, and other Kitchen concerns to Executive Chef
• Attends Banquet Event Order (BEO) meetings
• Attends stand-up, safety, and other periodic meetings
• Responds quickly and accurately to requests for special accommodations (allergies, box lunches) for guests, groups, and events
• Oversees all facets of human resources management including recruitment and selection, training & development, compensation, recognition and performance management of the work force
• Takes active role in recruitment and selection of qualified candidates
• Communicates performance expectations and provides employees with on-going feedback
• Creates 100% guest satisfaction by providing the Choice Hotels experience through performance that demonstrates the standards of genuine hospitality and exceeding guest expectations
• Communicates and reinforces the vision for customer service to all managers, supervisors and employees
• Creates an environment that encourages employees to provide the service brand behavior hospitality and teamwork
• Ensures that all minimum requirements of the 100% Guest Satisfaction Guarantee are in place and understood by all employees
• Ensures that the hotel delivers 100% Guest Satisfaction by developing customer feedback avenues and focusing management on trends and solutions
• Creates an environment that provides employees with the tools, training and environment they need to deliver the service brand behavior and teamwork
• Performs other duties as required by General Manager to provide 100% Guest Satisfaction and genuine hospitality to our Guest

Job description

The Radisson Hotel Salt Lake City Downtown, part of Choice Hotels' portfolio, is looking for its next Culinary Team member to elevate the F&B experience. Join a dynamic kitchen team dedicated to quality and guest satisfaction.

You will maintain recipes, enforce health guidelines, and assist in menu planning for banquets, restaurants and bars while coaching kitchen staff and participating in interviews. This role demands hands-on kitchen leadership, attention to detail, and strong communication